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  Arnold Bennett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Their daughter Virginia Eldin lived in France and was president of the Arnold Bennett Society.
His most famous works are the Clayhanger trilogy and The Old Wives' Tale.
The Clayhanger Family - 1925, the complete trilogy consisting of Clayhanger, Hilda Lessways, and These Twain
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 Took Family
She and her family attended the Farewell Party of Bilbo Baggins in 3001.
Pearl was not allowed to attend the accession ceremony of Lalia's son Thain Ferumbras III, but later she received a magnificent pearl necklace that was a Took family heirloom.
A pimpernel is a plant of the primrose family with flowers of scarlet, purple, white, or blue.
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 Novel sequence - tScholars.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Émile Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle is a family saga, a format that later became a popular fictional form, going beyond the conventional three-volume novel.
This was a step beyond the realist novels of Arnold Bennett (the Clayhanger books) or John Galsworthy.
Sequences of genre fiction are not generally considered romans-fleuve; the Aubrey–Maturin series of Patrick O'Brian might qualify, and possibly the Vorkosigan Series of Lois McMaster Bujold.
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Novel_sequence   (740 words)

  
 Took
In J. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, the Took clan was the most famous Hobbit family.
In Tolkien's world, the first recorded Took (Tûk of unknown meaning in Hobbitish Westron) was an Isumbras Took, who became the 13th Thain of the Shire after Gordenhad Oldbuck crossed into Buckland, becoming Master there.
After Isumbras, the Thain position became hereditary in the Took family, and at the end of the Third Age his descendant Peregrin "Pippin" Took became the 19th Thain of the Took line, the 32nd in the Shire.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/to/took.html   (556 words)

  
 Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
Born in Hanley, Staffordshire, the eldest child of a pawnbroker who had bettered himself and become a solicitor.
He learned his craft by studying French novels that included intense description and he successfully applied this style in bringing to life the ordinary working lives of many of his characters.
His best work can be found in the novels Anna of the Five Towns (1902), The Old Wives' Tale (1908), Clayhanger (1910) and Riceyman Steps (1923), all except the last being set in the Potteries.
www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk /bennett.htm   (560 words)

  
 Julian Morgan - Book Catalogue
The celebrity TV dog trainer explains her "instant" method of communicating with dogs and transforming them into obedient family pets.
The paper was almost bankrupt at the time and his stint as editor was an exciting time, including, among other events, the troubles of the Royal Family.
A modest contribution to the George Bush, Snr, legend, Millie's account begins with her recruitment to the family in 1987 and continues through the 1988 Presidential election campaign.
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 The Food Timeline: history notes--ice cream
There was never any egg, and there never was any cream." Auster also insisted a glass, not a paper cup, and ice-cold milk were basic to the success of a good egg cream.
After Louis Auster died...the recipe passed to his family, with the last batch of the secret syrup made up...around 1974.
They oldest mention it cites for a toffee-like sweet (as it is known in New Zealand) is 1939: Katherine Mansfield Scrapbook 3 "We always gave him the same presents...three cakes of hoky-poky." Of course, spoken words often predate their printed cousins by several years.
www.foodtimeline.org /foodicecream.html   (8443 words)

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