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	Matilda@Everything2.com
		Matilda (or Maud) was the daughter of Henry I, and after the death of his son William Atheling in the White Ship in 1120 she was the rightful heir-presumptive to the throne.
		Her mother was Matilda or Eadgyth, daughter of King Malcolm III "Canmore" of Scotland and of St Margaret, the sister of Edgar Atheling (nominally King Edgar II after Hastings in 1066), so Matilda was the first of the Norman line to be an heir of the Saxon monarchy.
		Matilda, meanwhile, is developing magical powers, with the ability to move objects with the force of her mind.
	everything2.com /?node_id=52499 (882 words)

	Matilda (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matilda is a novel by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.
		Matilda asks who the aunt is and Miss Honey reveals that it is none other than Miss Trunchbull.
		Matilda uses her powers to help the boy fly in a circular path, returning through the same window.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matilda_(novel) (1177 words)

	Matilda (1996 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the movie, Matilda lives in the USA and most of the film was shot in the East Whittier district of Los Angeles, California.
		In the original book, Matilda's mother is not given a first name, but she is in the film, and the physical builds of Matilda's parents are inverted in the film.
		When Matilda is running through the clost a mop falls on her and on the bottom of the screen, you can see a camera shadow.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matilda_(film) (470 words)

	matilda - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Matilda (of England) (1102-1167), English monarch and empress of the Holy Roman Empire.
		Matilda was born in London, daughter of Henry I, king of...
		Matilda may refer to: Matilda, a novel by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake Matilda, directed by Danny DeVito, based on the novel; Matilda Wormwood, the key character in...
	encarta.msn.com /matilda.html (139 words)

	The Man Who Loved Dickens - July 25, 2007 - The New York Sun
		Matilda, the adolescent narrator of "Mister Pip," lives with her mother in a village on the South Pacific island of Bougainville in the early 1990s.
		Matilda's father left the village several years earlier, wooed by the prospect of a regular paycheck, leaving the two women to their own defenses when a violent independence movement breaks out.
		There are some nice riffs on Dickens's novel: Matilda, like Pip, relates a youthful experience through a wistful older perspective; her broadened knowledge of the world estranges her from the person who raised her; and she even finds herself adrift in a river at the climactic moment of the book.
	www2.nysun.com /arts/man-who-loved-dickens (700 words)

	Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: Matilda
		Matilda is based on the novel by Roald Dahl (James and the Giant Peach and Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory).
		Matilda is a fantasy based in grim reality and the absurdity of it all works very nicely.
		Matilda may be a wee bit talky for the littlest of kidlets, but there is nothing here that you would need to shield your child from.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive/matilda.html (663 words)

	All About Romance Novels - King Stephen and Queen Matilda (1125 - 1152)
		Matilda was the daughter of Eustace, Count of Boulogne and Mary, daughter of Malcolm Canmore, King of the Scots and his wife Margaret, of the royal house of Wessex.
		Stephen and Matilda founded a monastery at Faversham as a thanks for the peace and sponsored the Order of the Temple through the donation of a number of her properties in both England and Boulogne.
		He and Matilda spent the majority of his reign in England and, aside from the time they spent apart in 1140 and 1141, there is no mention of them not living together.
	www.likesbooks.com /stephenandmatilda.html (1242 words)

	Amazon.ca: Matilda: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake: Books
		Matilda is an extraordinarily gifted four-year-old whose parentsa crass, dishonest used-car dealer and a self-centered, blowsy bingo addictregard her as "nothing more than a scab." Life with her beastly parents is bearable only because Matilda teaches herself to read, finds the public library, and discovers literature.
		Matilda taught herself to read from the newspapers lying around her house when she was a baby and she practically exhausts the local library's collection before she even begins school.
		Matilda's father is a cheating used car dealer, and her mother regularly leaves 4-year-old Matilda home alone all afternoon so that she can play Bingo in the next town.
	www.amazon.ca /Matilda-Roald-Dahl/dp/0141301066 (1731 words)

	Fever 1793 Reviews
		Ambitious, resentful of the ordinary tedium of her life, and romantically imaginative, Matilda is a believable teenager, so immersed in her own problems that she can describe the freed and widowed slave who works for her family as the "luckiest" person she knows.
		Fourteen-year-old Matilda Cook reluctantly helps out at her mother's Philadelphia coffee house, and so is conveniently in place to catch the gossip and follow the unfolding of events during the city's plague of yellow fever in the summer and autumn of 1793.
		Matilda and her mother both collapse, and in the ensuing confusion, they lose track of each other.
	www.writerlady.com /nffever1793_reviews.html (753 words)

	The Best Reviews: David Haynes, The Full Matilda Review
		David Haynes latest novel, The Full Matilda, focuses on the memoirs of a tough and feisty fictional character, Matilda Housewright, who was born during the early years of the last century, and grew up in Washington, D.C. in the home of a head steward or majordomo to a US Senator.
		The story is recounted through the voice of Matilda as well as various male members of her family passing from one generation to the next.
		Immediately, the principal narrator, Matilda Houswright, informs us that although her father may have been in the service of a well-known US Senator, her family was to remain invisible.
	thebestreviews.com /review21882 (558 words)

	Putting to Rest the Matilda Newport Myth - Part 2
		Recounts of Matilda Newport’s heroism tell diverse versions of a story that say that Matilda outwitted her enemy and/or captors, using a coal from her pipe to detonate a cannon to decimate the Dey warriors.
		Later, Ralph Newport married Matilda Spencer when her husband Thomas Spencer was killed in one of the battles, which took place in 1822.
		Her story borne of the need to pass on the so-called victory of the Settlers over the natives, and it was nurtured through myth of larger-than-life proportions, passed on as a ‘Griot’ would to his family.
	www.theperspective.org /2004/jan/matildanewportmyth.htm (2027 words)

	Powell's Books - Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
		In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives.
		As artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures of a young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose contours soon become more real than their own blighted landscape.
		Matilda grows up and goes to graduate school, still in love with Dickens and 'Great Expectations.' But she also comes to understand that literature doesn't just offer escape, it can take you home.
	www.powells.com /biblio/1-9780385341066-1 (1410 words)

	Books into film and television: M - Recreation - Christchurch City Libraries
		From the 1988 novel Mermaids by Patty Dann
		From the 1941 novel The Monarch of the glen by Compton Mackenzie.
		From the novel The Moth by Catherine Cookson
	library.christchurch.org.nz /Guides/BooksIntoFilm/M.asp (2516 words)

	Coming Attractions Preview Room Presents Matilda
		Matilda is a modern fairy tale, the story of a little girl who creates her own place in the world through strength, courage, and an exceptional knack for mischief.
		On the surface, Matilda appears to be this little, defenseless creature, and even though she's basically all alone in the world, she never loses her sense of identity or her sense of humor.," he notes.
		When Matilda trys to get Miss Honey's doll from her bedroom, or what used to be her bedroom, she causes lots of funny things to happen in Miss Honey's old house.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/4954/matilda.html (928 words)

	Matilda
		The novel was seen as the height of self-indulgence: life under apartheid demanded that writers create a translucent window through which the outside world could see authentic oppression.
		One of her novels, The Transit of Venus, was described to me by a man who knows as "the greatest novel written in the past 100 years".
		The novel follows the exploits of Bill Barnacle the sailor, Bunyp Bluegum the koala, and Sam Sawnoff the penguin, as they try to keep their magical pudding out of the reach of the notorious Pudding Thieves.
	www.middlemiss.org /weblog/matilda (6232 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Full Matilda by David Haynes
		Matilda Housewright hails from a long line of venerable and well-respected African American retainers --- her family has been in "service" for generations, serving Washington, D.C., politicos and other upper-crust families.
		Told in the voices of the men in her life, with connecting interludes from Matilda, the reader indeed gets The Full Matilda, a glorious glimpse inside the intriguing life of a captivating woman in the midst of change as she maneuvers through a web of secrets, expectations, and worn-out social mores.
		David and Matilda seem to connect in ways that she and his father are unable to.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/full_matilda1.asp (416 words)

	Matilda Summary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Matilda, a darling of a girl is a highly gifted child but she lives in a house with self-obsessed parents with no regard for her dreams and aspirations.
		This genius of a girl, Matilda, also possesses this very special power-little waves of lightning seems to flash out of her eyes and then she can move things that she really stares at.
		Wormwood, Matilda’s father is in a hurry to leave the country along with his family as he is in deep trouble.
	www.shvoong.com /books/1776-matilda (366 words)

	Matilda
		Matilda is the English form of Mahthildis, a Germanic name meaning “Mighty Battle Maiden” from “maht” (might, strong), and hild (battle).
		Matilda was introduced to England by the Normans.
		Maud and Matilda died out in the 14th century, but both were revived in the 19th century (Maud perhaps due to Tennyson’s 1855 Maud) although they are now rare again.
	www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/m/matilda.html (139 words)

	Movie Review - Matilda
		Matilda is a film adapted from the delightful novel by Roald Dahl.
		Matilda was reading and writing by the age of four and at the age of six and a half her parents sent her to school.
		Matilda notices the cat in the bushes at about the same time that the cat notices Ms.
	www.ahafilm.info /movies/moviereviews.phtml?fid=6399 (890 words)

	Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Mister Pip
		We are introduced to Matilda, a young island girl whose world and relationship with her mother are slowly beginning to deteriorating, when she encounters her first piece of written literature.
		The novel's allure could be partly explained by the narrator's desire to break free from the traditionalism (made more embarrassing to the daughter by a mixture of Christian evangelism) of her mother, but it is odd that she resorts to simply a third form of imposed traditionalism.
		The novel teaches her how to survive but, most importantly, how to make her voice heard in a place where individuals are lost to the vastness of the world and society.
	www.amazon.com /review/product/0385341067?filterBy=addThreeStar (2522 words)

	Teachers@Random Catalog \| Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman
		Orphaned Matilda is not at all pleased when she arrives at Blood and Bone Alley to become an assistant to Red Peg the Bonesetter.
		Matilda’s not used to being around so many people who are coming and going, laughing and eating.
		Matilda is as surprised as anyone when she begins seeing the world around her in a different way.
	randomhouse.com /teachers/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0440418224&view=tg (142 words)

	Nick.co.uk - Your Number One Place to Play, Talk and Win! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Matilda is an extraordinary girl of wondrous intelligence.
		Matilda manages to find a single light in warm-hearted Miss Honey, the first-grade teacher who recognizes and nurtures the girl's remarkable powers, including a special ability to turn the tables on the wicked grownups in her world.
		Drawn from Roald Dahl's classic children's novel, Matilda is a modern fairy tale, the story of a little girl who creates her own place in the world through strength, courage, and an exceptional knack for mischief.
	www.nick.co.uk /competitions/matildaDVD.aspx (185 words)

	M. G. Lewis The Monk Criticism
		Ambrosio, the monk of the novel's title and a foundling of mysterious past and parentage, has risen to the position of abbot of the Capuchins, becoming a well-respected figure in medieval Madrid, revered by the populace.
		With the aid of Matilda and her knowledge of fl magic, the monk summons a demon so that he might violate the girl.
		Many commentators note, however, that the dullness of the novel's virtuous characters fails to match the depth and complexity of Ambrosio and Matilda, and instead locate evidence of the novel's primary theme in the psychological exploration of its fallen protagonist and his accomplice.
	www.enotes.com /nineteenth-century-criticism/monk-m-g-lewis (994 words)

	Teachers@Random Catalog \| Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman
		In this compelling and funny novel, 14-year-old Matilda is taken from a comfortable and quiet life at a country manor to become an apprentice to Red Peg the Bonesetter in a small village in medieval England.
		At 14 years old, Matilda is taken to Blood and Bone Alley, where she is to assist Red Peg the Bonesetter.
		When Matilda finally realizes that she won’t be returning to a life of solitude and serenity, she begins to adjust to life in Blood and Bone Alley and to accept its people as her friends.
	www.randomhouse.com /teachers/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0440418224&view=tg (1033 words)

	Borders - Feature - Emma Brown
		Plain-faced Matilda Fitzgibbon's elaborate finery and ceremonious arrival win her the unwarranted and unwanted position of teacher's pet, alienating the already reticent young girl even more from her resentful peers.
		As Matilda's first term draws to a close, Miss Mabel Wilcox sends out letters to the families and guardians of each of her pupils asking whether the school should house the student for the holidays.
		He turns to the narrator of the novel, the sympathetic Isabel Chalfont, for a female's perspective on the answer to his newly acquired riddle, and Isabel welcomes the mysterious young lady into her home and into her heart.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=emmabrown_rg (1202 words)

	Black Ink \| The Full Matilda by David Haynes
		After finishing another novel, I got the idea for a short story about a maiden aunt–the formidable kind who is the stuff of every family’s legends.
		Matilda is not based on any one person I knew, but I’ve known plenty of strong and tough women.
		Matilda Housewright insists on preserving the world of mores and manners into which she was born.
	www.randomhouse.com /broadway/blackink/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780767915694&view=qa (593 words)

	TheStar.com \| columnists \| Every voice is special, Dickens said so
		It's a conflict in one way between imagination (represented by the novel) and pragmatism (techniques of survival.) "That won't hook a fish or peel a banana," Matilda's mother is liable to say, regarding her daughter's obsession with Dickens.
		In most literary novels, you can be sure that the Bible thumper will be put in his or her place, but Jones – to his credit – sympathizes with both parties.
		Matilda, the novel's narrator, tells the story from the point of view of her adult self, many years later, as a graduate student and Dickens specialist.
	www.thestar.com /columnists/article/268856 (1092 words)

	Amazon.com: The Full Matilda: A Novel: David Haynes: Books
		The Full Matilda: A Novel and over 130,000 other books are available for Amazon Kindle — Amazon’s new wireless reading device.
		Matilda Housewright, the strong-minded and willful daughter of Jacob, provides the focus for this intergenerational novel.
		Alternating between the first-person accounts of Matilda and her brother and the third-person perspectives of Martin's sons, this vibrant family portrait tracks the rise of the Housewrights to a multimillion-dollar food distribution company.
	www.amazon.com /Full-Matilda-Novel-David-Haynes/dp/0767915690 (844 words)

	NPR: Your Turn: Matilda Wormwood
		The daughter of the wicked Harry and Zinnia Wormwood, Matilda was neglected and forced to bring herself up into a cruel world filled with rude big brothers and evil school principals.
		A brilliant child, Matilda could read by the age of 3 -- and was reading literature by 4.
		I liked the way you describe how smart Matilda really smart she is when she is only 3 and 4.
	www.npr.org /blogs/incharacter/2008/04/your_turn_matilda_wormwood.html (651 words)

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