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The Spendthrift is an 1857 historical novel by the British author William Harrison Ainsworth. [1] It was published in a single volume by London publisher Routledge. [2] It was initially serialised in Bentley's Miscellany from January 1855. [3] Illustrations were provided by Hablot Knight Browne. It is set in the eighteenth century and follows ...
Hungerford was the son and heir of Anthony Hungerford (1607/8-1657) by his wife Rachel Jones, daughter of Rice Jones of Asthall, Oxfordshire [2] and was baptised at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire. [3] His father was a supporter of the royalist cause in the Civil War. Hungerford was a student of Queen's College, Oxford, in 1649. He succeeded to the ...
A Rake's Progress (or The Rake's Progress) is a series of eight paintings by 18th-century English artist William Hogarth. [1] The canvases were produced in 1732–1734, then engraved in 1734 and published in print form in 1735. [2]
'Heir Apparent' acts as a space in between the real social relations Giannine faces at home and the virtual adventure she has to tackle as Janine. In a way, she uses the game space to try out new solutions to adolescent problems: to try out a loving father/daughter relationship, for example." [3]
The Old School Renaissance, Old School Revival, [1] or OSR is a play style movement in tabletop role-playing games which draws inspiration from the earliest days of tabletop RPGs in the 1970s, especially Dungeons & Dragons. [2]
In Canada and the U.S., the game is known as Clue. It was retitled because the traditional British board game Ludo, on which the name is based, was less well known there than its American variant Parcheesi. [41] The North American versions of Clue also replace the character "Reverend Green" from the original Cluedo with "Mr. Green". This is the ...
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
A spendthrift (also profligate or prodigal) is someone who is extravagant and recklessly wasteful with money, often to a point where the spending climbs well beyond their means. Spendthrift derives from an obsolete sense of the word thrift to mean prosperity rather than frugality, [ 1 ] so a "spendthrift" is one who has spent their prosperity.