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Katherine Dorothea Duncan-Jones, FRSL (13 May 1941 – 16 October 2022) was an English literature and Shakespeare scholar and was also a Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge (1965–1966), and then Somerville College, Oxford (1966–2001). She was also Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford from 1998 to 2001. She was a scholar of ...
Charity Bryant (May 22, 1777 [1] – October 6, 1851 [2]) was an American business owner and writer.She was a diarist and wrote acrostic poetry. [3] Because there is extensive documentation for the shared lives of Bryant and her partner Sylvia Drake, their diaries, letters and business papers have become an important part of the archive in documenting the history of same-sex couples.
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Ford Madox Ford (né Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer (/ ˈ h ɛ f ər / HEF-ər); [1] 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were important in the development of early 20th-century English and American literature.
Jones as a poet was influenced by Percy Shelley and Thomas Carlyle, and wrote in an exaggerated style. Studies of Sensation and Event [2] (1843) was a critical failure, though not with Bryan Waller Procter and Richard Hengist Horne. Three late poems, "To the Snow," "To Death," and "When the World is Burning", attracted attention. [1]
Céline Dion is feeling the loss of Quincy Jones.. After the legendary music producer, who worked with Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra, died at age 91 on Nov. 3 at his Los Angeles home, Dion ...
Eldest son of Giles Jones, secretary to the York Buildings Water Company, and nephew of Griffith Jones (1722–1786), he was born in London in 1763, and admitted to St Paul's School, London on 24 April 1775. He was first placed under a sculptor, but afterwards apprenticed to a printer in Fetter Lane. On the expiration of his indentures he ...
Octavia Spencer is in mourning. The Oscar-winning actress took to Instagram on Tuesday to share the tragic news of a death in her family."Grief. You wouldn’t know it by this picture that today ...