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  William Somerset Maugham biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Maugham's masterpiece is generally agreed to be Of Human Bondage, an autobiographical novel which deals with the life of Philip Carey, who, like Maugham, was orphaned and brought up by his pious uncle.
In 1917, in New Jersey, Maugham married his mistress, Maud Gwendolen Syrie Barnardo, a daughter of orphanage founder Dr. Thomas Barnardo and former wife of American-born English pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome.
Somerset Maugham edited and finished the autobiography of the Victorian actor Sir Charles Hawtrey (1858-1923), called The Truth at Last", which was posthumously published in 1924.
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 William Somerset Maugham Information - TextSheet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
William Somerset Maugham (January 25, 1874 - December 16, 1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer.
Maugham wrote comedies, psychological novels and spy stories (although the latter part of his work is hardly ever seen as belonging to crime fiction proper).
(She became celebrated as Syrie Maugham, a noted interior decorator who popularized the all-white room in the 1920s.) Divorced in 1928 after a tempestuous marriage that was complicated by Maugham's homosexuality, they had one daughter, Elizabeth Mary Maugham (a.k.a.
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 W. Somerset Maugham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Somerset Maugham, born William Somerset Maugham (January 25, 1874 Paris, France – December 16, 1965 Nice, France) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer, reputedly the highest paid author of the 1930s.
Maugham spent most of World War II in the United States, first in Hollywood (he worked on many scripts, and was one of the first authors to make significant money from film adaptations of his books) and later in the South.
Maugham also edited and finished the autobiography of the Victorian actor Sir Charles Hawtrey (1858-1923), called The Truth at Last, which was posthumously published in 1924.
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 TheFreeBookShop.com - Library - W. Somerset Maugham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Somerset Maugham was born in Paris as the sixth and youngest son of a solicitor to the British embassy.
Maugham's breakthrough novel was the semi-autobiographical Of Human Bondage (1915), which is usually considered his outstanding achievement.
Maugham's famous novel The Moon And The Sixpence (1919) was the story of Charles Strickland (or actually Paul Gauguin), an artist, whose rejection of Western civilization led to his departure for Tahiti.
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 Somerset Maugham Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors.
It is awarded to who they judge to be the best writer or writers under the age of thirty-five of a work of fiction published in the past year.
The prize was instituted in 1947 by William Somerset Maugham and thus bears his name: the award is currently £3500, to be spent on foreign travel.
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 Sir Francis Walsingham: Elizabethan Spymaster & John Thurloe: Cromwell's Spymaster
Elizabeth was so relieved she went walking among her subjects sharing tears with them, and from the Intelligence standpoint, what historians were to have field-days with ever after, should never have happened at all.
Elizabeth had been deeply impressed by Dee's horoscope-casting since she was a princess in imprisonment at Woodstock, and when she came to the throne one of her first requests was that he should calculate the most propitious date for her Coronation.
Elizabeth was anxious to keep her lines open to her other suitor, Alençon, 'the little frog' as she dubbed him, for he was now placed under close surveillance in the château of Bois de Vincennes, along with the King of Navarre.
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Elizabeth Jennings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1926, the daughter of a doctor.
In 1956 she received the Somerset Maugham Award for her second book of poems, A Way of looking (Deutsch) and the used the prize for an extended trip to Italy in 1957.
Contents: Essays concerning Sister Elizabeth of the Trinity and Peter Levi; translation of the Prologue of Calderon's Life is a Dream; a review of W.H. Auden's The Dyer's Hand (continued from Notebook M); and a review of Catherine de Medici by Jean Heritier.
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 Mary's Flowers
A legend from the second century says that when Mary's tomb was opened to show Thomas that her body had been assumed into heaven, it was filled with these flowers.
The alabaster white snowdrop became a symbol of Mary's purity and was called the Flower of Purification because it bloomed on February 2, the Feast of the Purification of Mary.
The soft blossoms of sea-pink or thrift are said to have formed cushions for Mary to sit on when she rested during the long Flight into Egypt.
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 Fraser, Elizabeth Music Web Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
-- Mark Twain Fraser, Elizabeth Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i Marry not a tennis player.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Fraser, Elizabeth If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Fraser, Elizabeth "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
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 Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society
In one Elizabeth really is Victor's cousin, in one she is not.
Rating: low +2 (-4 to +4) or 7/10 Based on Somerset Maugham's novella "Theater," BEING JULIA presents a portrait of London's dramatic community in 1938.
Maugham creates some rich characterizations that are engaging and credible though not always likable.
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 Elisabeth Harvor Reviews: Women Writers at Work : The Paris Review Interviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mary McCarthy's page, on the other hand, has been typewritten, and of its five corrections, three have been typed in, with the consequence that we are given very little sense of how she works when she's alone and feeling spontaneous.
P.L. Travers' front door is pink, the same pink as the cover of Mary Poppins at Cherry Tree Lane, and in her hallway there's an antique rocking horse.
Mary McCarthy is brutal about Simone de Beauvoir, calling her "pathetic" and "odious"; Susan Sontag who was, early in her career, compared to McCarthy, says she has no desire to write like Mary McCarthy, "a writer who has never mattered to me." Mary McCarthy admires Tolstoy, but Rebecca West considers Tolstoy overrated.
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Mary Aldrich Beechner, Robert Streeter Aldrich, Charles S. Aldrich, James Whitson Aldrich (C); 16Dec55; R161096.
Mary M. Young (E of H. Stuart); 4Aug55; R154254.
Mary M. Young (E of H. Stuart); 4Aug55; R154016.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 5878
He married Elizabeth Mary Maugham, daughter of William Somerset Maugham and Gwendolyn Maud Syrie Barnardo, on 20 July 1937.
He and Elizabeth Mary Maugham were divorced in 1948.
Frances Mary Elizabeth Ashley-Cooper is the daughter of Major Lord Anthony Ashley-Cooper and Françoise Soulier.
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 TheFreeBookShop.com - Library - Abraham Lincoln   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 1832, he ran and was defeated for Illinois State Legislature, but in 1834, at age twenty-four, he ran again and was elected as a Whig and served for four terms.
After receiving his law license in 1836, Lincoln married Mary Todd on November 4th, 1842.
In 1847, Lincoln was elected to and served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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 Finding-aid for the Elizabeth Jennings Papers (WTU00061)
Notebook H - Emily Brontë: Introduction to `Wuthering Heights' by Elizabeth Jennings” in yellow ink on cover.
I by Elizabeth Jennings” in fl ink on cover, followed by “1 × 2 copies” in green and blue ink.
Contents: Chapters 1-4 and part of Chapter 5 of Christian Poetry (published under the title, Christianity and Poetry, in pencil with moderate revision in 2 inks and pencil.
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 TheFreeBookShop.com - Library - Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
TheFreeBookShop.com - Library - Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge
Mary Mapes was born on January 26, 1831, in New York City.
As the daughter of an inventor and scientist, she grew up in an environment where such prominent men as William Cullen Bryant and Horace Greeley were entertained.
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 The New York Review of Books: Table of Contents, November 30, 1995
It won the Somerset Maugham Award and was described by Stephen Spender as “surely the best biography of Shelley ever written...an extraordinary achievement.” Among Holmes’s other works are a two-volume biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge: Early Visions (1989) and Coleridge: Darker Reflections (1998); Dr.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's most recent books are The Hidden Life of Dogs, Certain Poor Shepherds, and The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture.
John Maynard Smith, Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex, is the author of On Evolution, The Evolution of Sex, Evolution and the Theory of Games, and, with Eörs Szathmáry, The Major Transitions in Evolution.
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Papers of the Lewis family, 19th-20th cent., mainly letters to: Elizabeth, Lady Lewis (1844-1931), with a few to her husband Sir George Lewis, 1st Bart.
Many of the letters are undated; some can be dated from the postmark on the envelope, but several letters were kept in the wrong envelopes; most of Paderewski's and Whistler's letters had become separated from their envelopes.
Bequeathed by Elizabeth Wansbrough to Ampleforth Abbey; deposited by Ampleforth Abbey, 1996.
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 LSU Law Library--Women's Rights and Women's Issues in Law and Literature
Langland, Elizabeth, Patriarchal Ideology and Marginal Motherhood in Victorian Novels by Women, 19 Studies in the Novel 381 (Fall 1987).
Whitesides, Mary Parr, Marriage in the American Novel From 1882 to 1982 (Dissertation, University of South Carolina, 1984).
One of the best known "courts of love" was that of Marie de France, Countess of Champagne, the daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine and granddaughter of the poet William Duke of Aquitaine.
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 GENUKI: Cockfield Baptisms 1813-1838
BLACKET, Mary - Joseph + Elizabeth of Woodland, Pitman, 26 Jun 1825
PARKIN, Hodgson - Joseph + Mary of Butterknowle, Pitman, 3 Jun 1827
SIMPSON, Rachel - Ralph + Mary of Butterknowle, Pitman, 30 Jun 1837
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 Maine Women Writers Collection Inventory
F.W. (Lucy) Blaisdell or to her daughter Elizabeth Pierce Blaisdell Dolan.
Elizabeth, an 1905 Colby College graduate, taught at Shaw University, Raleigh, N.C., in the teens.
Mary Blaisdell Belknap, Elizabeth' sister and another one of the letter writers, also graduated from Colby College.
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 (Isabel Mary LEVETT - Eliza NEWLOVE )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Isabel Mary LEVETT (9 Aug 1868 - Jul 1945)
Mary Gertrude MENS (13 Apr 1887 - 26 Dec 1975)
Anne Mary NASH (1842 - 2 Dec 1898)
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 Cumberland Death Notices III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mrs MARY LIVESLEY in the 74th year of her age.
MURRAY - On the 23rd Sept. 1869, at 15 Chapel-street, Whitehaven, Mary daughter of Mr.
MURRAY - At Tarnrigg Moor, in the parish of Wigton, on the 22nd July 1844, Mary, the daughter of Mr.
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 My Genealogy database - Index of Surnames   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mary Beatrice Dirs Mertens (30 MAY 1867 -)
Mary Margaret Desiree Meynell CBE (25 OCT 1894 - 1985)
BACK (Elizabeth Luttrell - Sir Richard Martin Kt.
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 Serendipity Books
The 1949 film was produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy, and starring June Allyson as Jo March, Janet Leigh, Margaret O'Brien, and Elizabeth Taylor as her sisters, Meg, Beth, and Amy, Mary Astor as Marmee, and Peter Lawford as Laurie.
The film was released in 1970, directed by George Stevens and starring Elizabeth Taylor and Warren Beatty.
SAVE YOUR JOB!" The name Mary Parker has been crossed out and Collier Young is written across the top.
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 Fodor's Travel Guides | Forums Messages
I'm about a third of the way through "The Queen's Fool" by Philippa Gregory, about Queen Mary and her sister, soon-to-be Queen Elizabeth I. It's similar in style to her book "The Other Boleyn Girl," which I really enjoyed.
How It Was by Mary Walsh Hemingway--a look into her life with the legendary Papa Hemingway.
Haven't seen a lot of mystery suggestions and although they're often relegated to the low end, Elizabeth George is excellent.
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 Great Film Writers
Among films adapted from his plays by other writers: What Price Glory (1926, 1952), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939, from Elizabeth the Queen), Mary of Scotland (1936) and Key Largo (1948).
As screenwriter, adapted the works of other literary notables including Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930) and Somerset Maugham (Rain, 1932).
Blacklisted for involvement with Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, organization suspected of being a Communist front; left Hollywood and settled in London, 1951.
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 Julian Browning Autographs Literature after 1850   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Elizabeth Mary Alford, novelist, author of The Fair Maid of Taunton (1878), A Modern Don Quixote (1889), etc. £30
Her great triumph, The Sorrows of Satan (1895), sold more than any previous English novel, and established Marie Corelli as the most popular novelist in the country.
Autograph Letter Signed, to the Lord Bishop of Chester, thanking him "for calling my attention to the case of Mary Henderson reputed to be 103".
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 Bette Davis at Reel Classics
Bette with Leslie Howard in the film that made her a star, Somerset Maugham's OF HUMAN BONDAGE (1934), in which Bette created a sensation as a cockney waitress who ruins a man's life.
I know all the angles, and I think I'm smart enough to keep one step ahead of them--till I get enough to pack it all in and live on Easy Street the rest of my life." --as Mary Dwight in MARKED WOMAN (1937).
No copyright is claimed on non-original or licensed material.
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 For Sale List - PopShops
Somerset Maugham and the Quest for Freedom Calder, Robert Lorin
Mary Queen of Scots: Her Life Story Millar, A.R. The Penguin Stephen Leacock Leacock, Stephen
Face of an Angel Paradise, Mary (pseudonym of Dorothy Eden)
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