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De la Mare was born at 83, Maryon Road, Charlton, then in the county of Kent but now part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich.He was partly descended from a family of French Huguenot silk merchants through his father, James Edward de la Mare (1811–1877), a principal at the Bank of England; his mother was James's second wife, Lucy Sophia (1838–1920), daughter of a Scottish naval surgeon and ...
Eight Tales is a collection of stories by British writer Walter de la Mare. It was released in 1971 and was the author's first collection of stories published by Arkham House. It was published in an edition of 2,992 copies. The stories were all written under de la Mare's pseudonym "Walter Ramal" and had not appeared previously in book form.
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. ISBN. 1846590663. Foreword by: Alison Lurie. Published in 1921, Memoirs of a Midget is a surrealistic novel, told in the first person, by English poet, anthologist, and short story writer Walter de la Mare, best known for his tales of the uncanny and poetry for children.
Nicholas Nye. Nicholas Nye is a poem by British poet Walter de la Mare. [1] It was published in the year 1931. [2] It has a total of 40 lines. It is written for children aged around 9–10 years. It is a six stanza poem in which the poet is the first person from view and visits an orchard and finds a donkey named 'Nicholas Nye'.
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t maʁi də la mɛʁ], also Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, lit.: " (the) Saint Marys of the Sea", locally Les Saintes, Provençal Occitan: Li Santi Mario de la Mar ), is the capital of the Camargue ( Provençal Occitan Camarga) in the south of France. It is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône ...
Consulate of the Sea. The Llotja de la Seda, seat of the Consulate of the Sea in Valencia since 1498. The Consulate of the Sea ( Catalan: Consolat de mar; pronounced [kunsuˈlad də ˈmaɾ]) was a quasi-judicial body set up in the Crown of Aragon, later to spread throughout the Mediterranean basin, to administer maritime and commercial law.
Institutions. King's College London; Bodleian Library. Albinia Catherine de la Mare, OBE, FBA (2 June 1932 – 19 December 2001), [1] known in print as A.C. de la Mare and informally as "Tilly", was an English librarian and palaeographer who specialised in Italian Renaissance manuscripts. [2]
El Noi de la Mare (The Child of the Mother) is a traditional Catalan Christmas song. The song was made famous outside Spain by Andrés Segovia who used to perform Miguel Llobet 's guitar transcription as an encore.