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  Richard Hughes (writer)
Hughes' short play ''The Sister's Tragedy'' was in the West End at the Royal Court Theatre by 1922.
Hughes was employed as a journalist, and travelled widely before he married in 1932 the painter Frances Bazley.
Hughes was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in the United States an honorary member of both the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Richard_Hughes_(writer)   (505 words)

  
 Richard Hughes
Richard Hughes was born in Weybridge, Surrey, of Welsh ancestry, as the son of Arthur and Louisa Grace (Warren) Hughes.
Hughes lectured on literature at the University of London, was active in Welsh church affairs, and travelled frequently in Greece and Morocco.
Hughes was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and an honorary member of both the National Institute and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /rhughes.htm   (1522 words)

  
 CHURCHES OF CHRIST: Hughes Says Church Is a Denomination
Richard Hughes made it clear that he regards the churches of Christ, Christian Church, and the Disciples to be three denominations who share common roots in the Stone­Campbell Restoration tradition.
Richard C. Goode, assistant professor of history at Lipscomb, said it was suggested [by whom, perhaps Dr. Hazelip?] that since Hughes is a member of the "churches of Christ" that the Reed Lectures be hosted this year by Lipscomb.
Hughes and Foster have attained a measure of notoriety in two published books in which they labored to prove the thesis that the postmodern church of Christ is a denomination whose roots are traced to an exclusive Restoration sect in the early 19th century.
www.bible-infonet.org /ff/articles/agents/112_12_08.htm   (1510 words)

  
 The Graphic - Safety reports show security
After 24 years at Pepperdine, Richard T. Hughes, professor of religion, will be moving with his wife Jan to Messiah College in Grantham, Pa. Before their big move, Hughes reflected on his time at Pepperdine, his plans for the future, and gave parting words to his cherished students.
Hughes estimates that about 50 percent of the faculty attends these seminars and retreats, exemplifying the importance of the program.
They first met the Hughes’ at the University Church of Christ where they were among the first to introduce themselves and welcome the Johnsons to the campus.
graphic.pepperdine.edu /news/2006/2006-05-15-hughesdeparture.htm   (786 words)

  
 John Crowley: Little Criminals
Hughes was a perfectionist, and his devotion to getting historical, geographical, and mechanical details unimpeachably right accounts for some of the long time he spent writing each of his books.
But what intrigued Hughes was that the pirates weren’t nearly as bloodthirsty as they pretended to be, and after they got the money they released the children, gave them candy, took them on board their schooner and comforted them, and then returned them unharmed to the other boat.
Hughes only reached the end of this volume by dint of stealing from himself: a further adventure of Augustine in Morocco (fleeing that nice young woman) is taken scene for scene from his own previously published accounts of his adventures in the Atlas mountains years before.
www.bostonreview.net /BR30.6/crowley.html   (4006 words)

  
 Richard Hughes (writer) Summary
The British author Richard Hughes (1900-1976) rose to fame in the late 1920s and 1930s upon the publication of his best-selling and critically acclaimed first novel, A High Wind in Jamaica.
Richard Hughes published only four novels, at wide intervals, throughout his lifetime, and his reputation for extraordinary brilliance as a writer rests mainly on these, all vividly daring in choice of plot, highly wrought yet brilliantly readable in sty...
Richard Arthur Warren Hughes(19 April, 1900- 28 April 1976) was a British professional writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.
www.bookrags.com /Richard_Hughes_(writer)   (463 words)

  
 Richard Perceval Graves
Richard Perceval Graves was born in Brighton in 1945.
The Welsh writer Richard Hughes had been a longstanding friend of the Graves family, and ‘I had first met him after one of my uncle Robert’s lectures when I was up at St.John’s, Oxford, in the mid 1960s’.
Richard Graves suggests that I, Claudius can be read as ‘subconsciously … a vehicle for expressing the dark side of his feelings’ for her, yet she also improved his work by acute literary criticism.
www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth5688E83E18e751D9A7nUu249E10D   (1515 words)

  
 Oneida County New York Biographies
JONES, RICHARD J., was born in the town of Steuben, December 27, 1832, son of James R., and Ann Jones, natives of Wales.
Richard J. is a member of Trenton Grange, and an active worker and deacon in the Congregational Church.
Hugh W. Jones, who was born February 14, 1809, was a cooper by tread, which he followed up to 1845, and then engaged in farming until he retired on account of age, and has spent all his life in Steuben and Western.
home.comcast.net /~richardson156/wagerj.html   (7007 words)

  
 Review Richard Hughes
Richard T. Hughes has written a fascinating book on "Churches of Christ in America." When reading such histories it is essential to remember that the perspective of historians is not a Biblical perspective.
Hughes traces several currents among churches of Christ, two in particular: (1) the early Campbell influence, especially that which came from "The Christian Baptist" and (2) the Stone-Lipscomb influence.
Hughes believes that the origins of the division between the Disciples of Christ and "Churches of Christ" precede the Civil War.
www.creced.com /english/articles/reviewrichardhughes.html   (861 words)

  
 Richard Hughes Sullivan - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
Richard Hughes Sullivan, local forecaster of the United States weather bureau at Wichita, Kan., and a lecturer of much ability on meteorology, climatology and other scientific subjects, is a man of high character and exceptional ability for whom Kansas is indebted to the State of Indiana.
Mary Esther Hughes was married to William Blackmore Sullivan at Madison, Ind., Oct. 18, 1859, and of the eleven children born of their union but two survive—Warwick Sullivan and Richard Hughes Sullivan, of this review.
Richard Hughes Sullivan, of this review, was reared at Madison, Ind., and was educated in the common and high schools of that city and under private tutors in the academical and collegiate branches of science, Latin, English and history.
skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/genweb/archives/1912/s3/sullivan_richard_hughes.html   (2333 words)

  
 Richard Hughes | Inspirational Wales
Richard Hughes (1900-1976) The playwright, poet, short story writer and novelist was born, of Welsh parents, in Weybridge.
Hughes wrote the sea story In Hazard (1938) in the castle gazebo which was, at times, also used by Thomas.
Richard Hughes published no more novels until The Fox in the Attic (1961), the first volume of a projected series, The Human Predicament, about the rise of Fascism of which only the first two volumes were completed.
www.inspirationalwales.com /Be_Inspired/Modern_Writers_Richard_Hughes-I1-1_8.aspx   (168 words)

  
 Richard Hughes (writer) Criticism
The Wooden Shepherdess is the second instalment of Richard Hughes's long historical novel, The Human Predicament, of which the first volume, The Fox in the Attic, was published in 1961.
[Richard Hughes] is anything but a flashy writer, and I must confess that I am mildly put off by his style.
This, however, is only a matter of taste, and whatever polish his prose may lack is vastly compensated for by the certainty of his vision.
www.bookrags.com /criticisms/Richard_Hughes_(writer)   (276 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: A High Wind in Jamaica: Books: Richard Hughes,Francine Prose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Hughes enjoys some coy riffing on the child mind, as with this description of the way Emily handles an uncomfortable social situation: "Much the best way of escaping from an embarrassing rencontre, when to walk away would be an impossible strain on the nerves, is to retire in a series of somersaults.
Short, swift and very bloody, Hughes tells a story of children as seperate from adult human nature and explores the ways in which children can cope with danger and catastrophe in the light of the usual adult nervous fumbling.
Hughes is also exploring a more general theme of alienation and the kind of moral emptiness that accompanies it: child vs. adult, plantation owners vs. slaves, the wild of Jamaica vs. the civilized form of the British Empire, each unknowing and thus cruel to the other.
www.amazon.ca /High-Wind-Jamaica-Richard-Hughes/dp/0940322153   (2021 words)

  
 Church History: Reviving the Ancient Faith
Hughes has flunked the test which would merit him a place in the ranks of credible historians of the Restoration.
Hughes stumbles and falls on the very first page of his book where he states the white mainstream churches of Christ trace their American heritage to Barton W. Stone and Alexander Campbell.
Hughes contends that four major themes have shaped the character of the traditions of the churches of Christ from their 19th century beginnings.
www.bible-infonet.org /ff/articles/church/111_09_14.htm   (1177 words)

  
 Manual of Pharmacodynamics - R Hughes
Richard Hughes, MD Hughes was an impeccable scholar who lectured on materia medica to the British Homoeopathic Society in London.
Although Kent considered Hughes a "skunk" for the emphasis on the pathological symptoms and advocacy of substantial doses, the book by Hughes is one of the best essays in the basics of homeopathic materia medica.
However it should be kept in mind that Hughes was concerned with the pathological symptoms seen in the provings and many of our most "characteristic symptoms" we find in discussing remedies today will not be found in Hughes' work.
www.wholehealthnow.com /books/pharmacodynamics.html   (934 words)

  
 Citrus: Offended, city planner takes parting shot
Hughes, when contacted Thursday, declined to comment on his future employment or the overall issue.
Despite Hughes' offer with the county, the planner had agreed to stay with Crystal River, Lilly said, seeking to dispel speculation of the motives behind Hughes' letter.
Hughes, who Lilly said was earning in the low $20,000 range, will earn $30,000 with the county.
www.sptimes.com /2002/03/02/Citrus/Offended__city_planne.shtml   (368 words)

  
 Richard Hughes
Hughes was a great writer and a scholar.
In 1889 he was appointed an Editor of the 'British Homoeopathic Journal' and continued in that capacity until his demise.
In 1876, Dr. Hughes was appointed as the Permanent Secretary of the Organization of the International Congress of Homoeopathy Physicians in Philadelphia.
www.wholehealthnow.com /homeopathy_pro/richard_hughes.html   (115 words)

  
 Hughes & Related Families
Please correct e-mail address of Don Hughes, author of the outstanding story of Joseph Hughes, Rev. War Hero, to as follows: jdhughes@softcom.net.
HUGHES 2002 Reunion is in the planning stages.
Hughes Families will require full deposit of the registration fee prior to the Reunion.
www.hughesfamilies.com /index.cfm?Fuseaction=News   (3623 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Doc Strange
He was created by writer Richard Hughes, later the editor of The American Comics Group (Commander Battle, Herbie) and artist Alexander Kostuk (using the name "Alex Koster"), who has few other credits in comic books.
Most of the company's characters have been picked up in recent decades as part of the extra-large superhero universe of AC Comics (Femforce), which specializes in picking up long-defunct characters of this sort — but not, no-doubt because of the similarity of his name with that of a Marvel property, Doc Strange.
In 2001, he was pastiched by writer Alan Moore (Miracleman, Swamp Thing) as "Doc Strong", one of several characters in "Terra Obscura", which appeared in Moore's Tom Strong series.
www.toonopedia.com /doc-s.htm   (500 words)

  
 Richard Hughes (writer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Arthur Warren Hughes (19 April 1900—28 April 1976) was a British professional writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.
He wrote only four novels, the most famous of which is A High Wind in Jamaica (1929), which was first published in the USA under the title of its successful stage adaptation, The Innocent Voyage.
During the Second World War, Hughes had a desk job in the Admiralty.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Hughes_(writer)   (504 words)

  
 Richard Hughes- The Greatest Drummer From the Greatest Band Ever! -- His motion keeps my heart running...
Richard replies: I was pretty surprised but I love playing it - it seems to get people going and has a cool drum break / piano solo that really pumps people up.
Richard replies: We've got a few Beatles numbers up our sleeve - we were asked to play a bit of "Paperback Writer" live on a radio show without any warning and we managed most of the song without having time to think about it.
Richard replies: There are about a million places that you could replace the word "Barbados" with in this statement, and I'd love to play in pretty much all of them.
www.freewebs.com /richardhughesthegreatestdrummer/richardnews.htm   (1951 words)

  
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He is a distinctive, satirical writer, and not to everyone's taste, but you owe it to yourself to try at least one of his books.
(Richard Gehr) In THE WOMAN CHASER, one Richard Hudson, ex-used car salesman and manipulator of attractive women (including a Salvation Army volunteer whom he tempts into prostitution) is one of the most self-conscious (and therefore artful) creations in the history of the genre.
Bob Shairp--a writer and dreamer--has agreed to be a guinea-pig in a military experiment to find out if his personality can be turned into data and stored on computer.
showcase.netins.net /web/chargerhorse/RFP-10.HTM   (12407 words)

  
 Richard Hughes biography and books at The Wee Web
Richard Arthur Warren Hughes was born in Weybridge, Surrey of Welsh parentage, 19 April 1900.
Richard was educated at Charterhouse and Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1922.
All the Richard Hughes books listed below are currently for sale on our website - we may have some others in stock so please ask if you don't see the title you're looking for.
www.theweeweb.co.uk /public/author_profile.php?id=230   (297 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Richard Hughes": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Richard Hughes, as Cartomancy: An Introduction, Mary R. Gentle, lk Cartomancy: Conclusion, Mary R. Gentle.
He was following in the footsteps of his father; Richard Hughes had taught his son everything he knew, and Owen had studied on his own, enhancing his knowledge to the fullest.
Richard Hughes -- Find pics, news, movies, interviews, filmography and more at Moviefone.
www.amazon.com /phrase/Richard-Hughes   (640 words)

  
 Articles from Richard W. Hughes on gems, ruby, sapphire, jade
But while this freeing of minds unleashed thousands of new publishers and writers upon the world, it suffered from traditional distribution restrictions – large amounts of capital were still required to move one's words to the reader.
Ideas in the mind of the writer can now move directly to the reader with little more hindrance than that required to type.
Other reproduction (text or graphics) without the express written consent of Richard W. Hughes is strictly prohibited.
www.ruby-sapphire.com /aperitif.htm   (1019 words)

  
 Life History of Dr.Richard Hughes ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Richard Hughes was born in London in 1836.
In 1892 he was appointed Editor of the British Homoeopathic Journal and continued in that capacity until his demise.
In 1876 Dr. Hughes was appointed as the permanent secretary of the organisation of the International Congress of Homoeopathic Physicians in Philadelphia and presided over the International Congress held in London in 1881.
www.homeocases.org /master.asp?id=13   (174 words)

  
 A High Wind in Jamaica -- book review
Hughes was a mystagogue of the splendors of life at sea and of the landscape of the Caribbean islands.
While Hughes’ characterization of Europeans is often innovative, his handling of other races never rises beyond the caricatures of the period.
Fitzgerald and Hemingway were the literary giants of the 1920s, and Richard Hughes does not come close to either of these writers in stylistic achievement or in the elucidation of the human condition.
www.curledup.com /highwind.htm   (506 words)

  
 Lectures on Richard Hughes
When Richard Hughes's A High Wind in Jamaica was published in 1929, what made the book such a talking-point on both sides of the Atlantic was its sharp, bleak, decidedly original (and some thought cynical) view of childhood.
Richard Hughes is a currently neglected writer who during his lifetime was famous chiefly as the author of two novels: A High Wind in Jamaica, the classic twentieth century novel about childhood; and The Fox in the Attic, in part a chilling account of the rise of Nazi Germany.
Laugharne and Dylan Thomas are now so indissolubly associated in the public mind that few people realise that Thomas only settled in Laugharne because of his admiration for the writer Richard Hughes, who was then living in a somewhat dilapidated house in the Castle grounds.
www.richardgraves.org /html/lrhugh.htm   (243 words)

  
 Richard Hughes ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Hughes photographs are dedicated to the peripheral, marginal zones and strange disconnected gaps of our contemporary social landscape.
Hughes remarkable career as an artist, which continues to this day, spans 70 years and encompasses his work as a gifted printmaker, successful muralist, outstanding Canadian war artist and prolific painter.
Lawrence, who moved to Harlem as a teenager in 1930, was influenced and stimulated by the artists, writers, and philosophers of the Harlem Renaissance, among them Romare Bearden, Langston Hughes, and W. DuBois, who fostered pride...
wwar.com /masters/h/hughes-richard.html   (2211 words)

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