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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 .
On 27 November 2018, Netflix and The Roald Dahl Story Company jointly announced that Netflix would be producing an animated series based on Dahl's books, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, The Twits, and other titles. Production commenced on the first of the Netflix Dahl animated series in 2019. [70]
Matilda is an 1825 novel by the British writer and politician Lord Normanby, originally published in two volumes. [1] It was part of the emerging, popular genre of silver fork novels that focused on the fashionable British upper classes in the later Regency era, and was his first published work.
The passage, found in Chapter Seven Volume II, discusses an interpretation of the Bible as too lewd for youth to read. These two major pieces led the way for a multitude of other attacks on the novel, from such sources as the Monthly Review , the Monthly Magazine , and the Scots Magazine ; the last of these attacked the novel six years after ...
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Bernard was the first Norman bishop of St David's (1115–1148).. Originally an erudite layman serving as chancellor to Queen Matilda, [1] he was abruptly appointed the bishop of St. David's on 18 September 1115, when King Henry I (Matilda's husband) summoned the chapter of St. David's to London, and persuaded them to choose Bernard as next bishop (the previous bishop having died that year). [2]