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Matilda is a 1988 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. It was published by Jonathan Cape . The story features Matilda Wormwood , a precocious child with an uncaring mother and father, and her time in a school run by the tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull .
Mathilda, or Matilda, [1] is the second long work of fiction of Mary Shelley, written between August 1819 and February 1820 and first published posthumously in 1959. It deals with common Romanticism themes of incest and suicide .
Miss Agatha Trunchbull is the fictional headmistress of Crunchem Hall Primary School (or Elementary School), and the main antagonist in Roald Dahl's 1988 novel Matilda and its adaptations: the 1996 film Matilda (played by Pam Ferris), the 2011 musical, and the 2022 musical film adaptation (played by Emma Thompson).
Roald Dahl's classic children's book is now a movie musical on Netflix. Here are all the key differences between the original novel, the 1996 film, stage adaptation, and 2022 movie musical.
Matelda, anglicized as Matilda in some translations, is a minor character in Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio, the second canticle of the Divine Comedy. She is present in the final six cantos of the canticle, but is unnamed until Canto XXXIII. [ 1 ]
Matilda Wormwood, also known by her adoptive name Matilda Honey, is the title character of the bestselling 1988 children's novel Matilda by Roald Dahl.She is a highly precocious five and a half (six and a half in the 1996 film) year old girl who has a passion for reading books.
When Matilda said she wanted to go to school, her father tells her she can't go because she's four (to which Matilda corrects him by stating that she's six and a half). When she corrects him, he doesn't believe her and takes her to her mother, who says she is four. When Matilda protests that she is six-and-a-half, her mother says, "Five, then."
María del Carmen Martínez-Bordiú y Franco (born 26 February 1951), commonly known as Carmen Martínez-Bordiú, is a Spanish aristocrat and social figure.. Martínez-Bordiú was the 2nd Duchess of Franco from July 2018 [1] until revocation of her dukedom and associated grandeeship on 21 October 2022 as a result of the Democratic Memory Law.