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Topsy-Turvy is a 1999 British musical period drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, starring Jim Broadbent as W. S. Gilbert and Allan Corduner as Sir Arthur Sullivan, along with Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville and Ron Cook. The story concerns the 15-month period in 1884 and 1885 leading up to the premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan's The ...
Topsy-Turvy, a 2002 album by The Apex Theory; Topsy Turvy (Guitar Shorty album), a 1993 album by Guitar Shorty "Topsy Turvy", a song from the 1996 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Topsy Turvy, a video in the Disney Sing-Along Songs series; Topsy Turvy (Young Fresh Fellows album), a 1985 album by Young Fresh Fellows
NGC 1313 (also known as the Topsy Turvy Galaxy [2]) is a field galaxy [3] and an irregular galaxy [4] discovered by the Scottish astronomer James Dunlop on 27 September 1826. [5] It has a diameter of about 50,000 light-years , or about half the size of the Milky Way .
The Purchase of the North Pole or Topsy-Turvy (French: Sans dessus dessous) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1889.It is the third and last novel of the Baltimore Gun Club, first appearing in From the Earth to the Moon, and later in Around the Moon, featuring the same characters but set twenty years later.
Gilbert, who wrote the libretti for these operas, created fanciful "topsy-turvy" worlds where each absurdity is taken to its logical conclusion: fairies rub elbows with British lords, flirting is a capital offence, gondoliers ascend to the monarchy, and pirates emerge as noblemen who have gone astray. [2]
A Topsy-Turvy doll is a double-ended doll, typically featuring two opposing characters. They are traditionally American cloth folk dolls which fuse a white girl child with a black girl child at the hips. Later dolls were sometimes a white girl child with a black mammy figure.
Elizabeth Chamberlain Wright (née, Mary Elizabeth House; after first marriage, Mrs. Charles C. Chamberlain and Mrs. M. H. Chamberlain; after second marriage, Mrs. Washington Wright; ca. 1834 – 1868) was a 19th-century American poet and writer known in the press by her pen names, Carrie Carlton and Topsy-Turvey (or Topsey Turvey). [1]
To dwell in Topsy-Turveydom!— Where vice is virtue—virtue, vice: Where nice is nasty—nasty, nice: Where right is wrong and wrong is right— Where white is black and black is white. Where babies, much to their surprise, Are born astonishingly wise; With every Science on their lips, And Art at all their fingertips. For, as their nurses ...