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The Verses themselves were carefully written in a poetic style called a décima which was a known song style among rural Puerto Rican peasants, such as the Jíbaro (Scarano, Frances A 1409). Cabrera’s popularization of the décima gave way to the association of literary work written either from the perspective or claimed identity of a Jíbaro ...
As early as 1820, Miguel Cabrera identified many of the jíbaros' ideas and characteristics in his set of poems known as The Jibaro's Verses.Then, some 80 years later, in his 1898 book Cuba and Porto Rico, Robert Thomas Hill listed jíbaros as one of four socio-economic classes he perceived existed in Puerto Rico at the time: "The native people, as a whole, may be divided into four classes ...
The English Mistery ("Mistery" being an old word for a guild) was a political and esoteric group active in the United Kingdom of the 1930s. A "Conservative fringe group" in favour of bringing back the feudal system, [1] its views have been characterised as "reactionary ultra-royalist, anti-democratic". [2]
He was also, under the pen name of Henry Wade, a noted mystery writer and one of the founding members of the Detection Club. [5] He married Mary Augusta Chilton OStJ in 1911 and with her had 5 children: [1] John Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher (1912–1992) Nigel Chilton Aubrey-Fletcher (1914–1980) Lancelot Philip Aubrey-Fletcher (1919–2000)
The Tichbornes, of Tichborne Park near Alresford in Hampshire, were an old English Catholic family who had been prominent in the area since before the Norman Conquest.After the Reformation in the 16th century, although one of their number was hanged, drawn and quartered for complicity in the Babington Plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, the family in general remained loyal to the Crown, and ...
The Great London Mystery is a 1920 British silent crime film directed by Charles Raymond and starring David Devant, Robert Clifton and Charles Raymond. [1] It was a 12-chapter serial showcasing the acting abilities of one of the most famous magicians of his time, David Devant (1868-1941), allowing him to present his routine on film.
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An English Murder is a crime novel by Cyril Hare. [1] Published in 1951, it combines traits of classical Golden Age murder mystery – a group of guests in a snowed in country house – with the realities of post-war Britain.