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Ronald Pearson Tripp FRSE (1914 – 2001) was a British palaeontologist specializing in trilobites. He was self-taught in palaeontology and became an authority on the taxonomy of the trilobite order Lichida and the trilobite family Encrinuridae .
Pearson's Magazine was a monthly periodical that first appeared in Britain in 1896. A US version began publication in 1899. A US version began publication in 1899. It specialised in speculative literature, political discussion, often of a socialist bent, and the arts.
In 1904 Pearson purchased the struggling The Standard and its sister paper the Evening Standard for £700,000 from the Johnstone family. He merged the Evening Standard with his St James's Gazette and changed the Conservative stance of both papers into a pro- Liberal one, but was unsuccessful in arresting the slide in sales and in 1910 sold them ...
She is a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at ... Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction (Pearson, 2006 ... (Liquid Paper Press, 2001 ...
The biography was written by John Pearson, Fleming's assistant at the London Sunday Times, and published in October 1966 by Jonathan Cape (ISBN 1448208068). [1] Pearson later wrote the official, fictional-biography James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 in 1973, and his research papers and interviews for the biography were published as Ian ...
Norman Holmes Pearson (April 13, 1909 – November 5, 1975) was an American academic at Yale University, and a prominent counterintelligence agent during World War II. As a specialist on American literature and department chairman at Yale University he was active in establishing American Studies as an academic discipline. [1]
English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world.The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. [1] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English.
Pearson was born on 24 February 1866 in the village of Wookey, Somerset, a son of Arthur Cyril Pearson and Phillippa Massingberd Maxwell Lyte, who was a granddaughter of the hymn-writer and poet Henry Francis Lyte. He was educated at Winchester College in Hampshire. [1] His father became rector of Drayton Parslow in Buckinghamshire. [2]