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William Winter (July 15, 1836 – June 30, 1917) was an American drama critic, journalist, essayist, poet, and author. Starting in the 1850s, he pursued a career as a writer in New York City and was associated with the Bohemian movement.
The Edwardians First edition cover Author Vita Sackville-West Language English Genre Bildungsroman Publisher Hogarth Press Publication date 1930 Publication place United Kingdom Media type Print (hardcover) Pages 346 OCLC 365653 The Edwardians (1930) is one of Vita Sackville-West's later novels and a clear critique of the Edwardian aristocratic society as well as a reflection of her own ...
Prior to English settlement and the formation of Jamestown on the east Virginian coast in 1607, the region was home to the native Algonquian peoples, also known as the Powhatan peoples of Tsenacommacah. Literature made by the early Powhatan peoples was multi-textual, not based on the English written word and took many artistic and cultural ...
Winters's critical style was comparable to that of F. R. Leavis, and in the same way he created a school of students (of mixed loyalty).His affiliations and proposed canon, however, were quite different: Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence above any one novel by Henry James, Robert Bridges above T. S. Eliot, Charles Churchill above Alexander Pope, Fulke Greville and George Gascoigne above ...
Vita & Virginia is a 2018 biographical romantic drama film directed by Chanya Button. The screenplay, written by Button and Eileen Atkins , is adapted from the 1992 play Vita & Virginia by Atkins. [ 2 ]
[86] [87] Virginia has a total area of 42,774.2 square miles (110,784.7 km 2), including 3,180.13 square miles (8,236.5 km 2) of water, making it the 35th-largest state by area. [88] It is bordered by Maryland and Washington, D.C. to the northeast; by the Atlantic Ocean to the east; by North Carolina to the south; by Tennessee to the southwest ...
Virginia Syddall was born on 5 December 1935 in Bolton, England. Her mother, Lillian Syddall, taught her to love history. Virginia married Arthur Henley in 1956 and remained together until he died in 2013. They had two sons, Sean and Adam; four grandchildren, Daryl, Michael, Tara and Ryan; and three great grandchildren, Aireanna, Elizabeth ...
Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928, inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend. It is a history of English literature in satiric form.