John Keats (1795-1821). He
died in Rome and is buried there.
Charlotte, Emily and Anne.
This was Gone with The wind
by Margaret Mitchell. The awards it received were as follows. Best production
, Clark Gable for best actor, Vivien Leigh for best actress, Hattie McDaniel
for best supporting actress, direction, best-written screenplay,
cinematography (Color), art direction and film editing.
The boy’s name are Ralph, Jack
and Peter kin and the book was written by Robert Michael Ballantyne
(1825-1894).
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400),
spent most of his life working for the monarchy. He served under Edward III,
Richard II and Henry IV.
Black Beauty. They are two
horses, friends of Black Beauty.
William Wordsworth
(1770-1850), famous for his poems on nature.
R H Dana (1815-1882), was an
American author and lawyer. His best Known book is Two years before the Mast.
Dorothy Gladys Smith, better
known as Dodie Smith and in theatrical circles by her pen-name CL Anthony. She
was born May 3, 1896 at white field, Lancashire and educated at Manchester and
at St. Paul’s Girls' school in London.
After Studying at the Royal
Academy of Dramatic Art, she first appeared on stage in musical comedy in
1915.After several years touring with various companies. She left the stage to
go into business. Her first play, Autumn Crocus, was produced at the Lyric
Theatre, London, in 1931 and was an immediate success. In 1932 her second play
service was produced at Wyndham’s Theatre. Both these plays have been filmed.
The one Hundred and one
Dalmatians was also filmed but as an animated cartoon feature in 1961 by Walt
Disney Productions. She wrote this in 1956 and then in 1967 another children’s
book, The Starlight Barking was published to be followed by yet another. The
Midnight Kittens in 1976.
At the age of 16 he was
apprenticed to an architect and later worked for an architect in London.
He printed books. His real
name was Jan van Wynkyn. He assisted William Caxton and in 1491 succeeded him.
The name under which he wrote
his many sea-faring novels was Joseph Conrad. He was born in the Ukraine in
Russia on December 6, 1857. His boyhood was passed in Cracow in Poland. There he
learned to speak and write French fluently and first began to take a great
interest in the sea.
At the age of 17 he served for
two years in French ships in the Mediterranean Sea and on South American coasts.
Four years later he forsook his interest in France and instead turned to England
and took Passage to Lowestoft on the east coast of England. He landed there in
1878 and later qualified as an able seaman.
He served on a coasting vessel.
He sailed as third mate to Sydney, Australia, on a sailing ship in 1880. Four
years later, he became a master in the British merchant service he became a
master in the British merchant service and took British citizenship.
Conrad left the sea in 1894 and
after his marriage in 1896 settled in Kent.
He fell ill of Congo fever and,
during his convalescence, started work on his first novel, entitled Almayer’s
Folly. He worked on this book for nearly five years.
He wrote many books about the sea, prominent among which are Victory. An
Outcast of the Island and Lorn Jim, all of which have been filmed.
Joseph Conrad died August 3, 1924.
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