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The Dorsey Brothers - Filmdom's Favorites
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Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey are two of the top ten bandleaders in anybody's history. Their groups occupied the top rungs in the ladder of success longer than any other of the Big Band stars. They of course got there through talent, but also through successful recordings, radio broadcasts and especially public appearances where their fans could see them in person as against just hearing them. But even their one-nighters, theatre and hotel bookings never brought them to the eyes and ears of as many of their fans as did their work in motion pictures. Over the course of more than two decades these two ...
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Spousal collaborations in naturalist fiction and in practice.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies
; ...British literary critic and author Sir Walter Besant conceived of the ideal collaborator...she accepted her secondary role. Besant's comments mirror the prevailing...terms similar to those described by Besant above, they were held up as examples...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...of William IV, 1792; Sir George Grove, engineer...the stethoscope, 1826; Sir Martin Archer Shee, portrait...traveller and author, 1881; Sir John Everett Millais...Massenet, composer, 1912; Walter Runciman, first Baron...composer, 1810; Sir Walter Besant, novelist and ...
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Future Dreams and Nightmares.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Futurist
; ...Yea and Nay: The Revolt of Man (Sir Walter Besant); Lesbia Newman (Henry Robert...Great War: The Battle of Dorking (Sir George Tomkyns Chesney); The Invasion of England (Sir William Butler); The Second Armada...
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THE UNFINISHED CLASSICS AND THEIR POSTHUMOUS ENDINGS
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...birth, the modern crime writer Robert B Parker was commissioned to finish the novel. Victorian writer Wilkie Collins left his book Blind Love unfinished on his death in 1890. It was completed by historian and novelist Sir Walter Besant.
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Clinton Machann, The Genre of Autobiography in Victorian Literature.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose
; ...works, the reader also encounters the autobiographies of Robert Dale Owen, Anthony Trollope, Charles Darwin, Sir Walter Besant, Herbert Spencer, Edmund Gosse, and Francis Galton. This rather eclectic group includes some rarely discussed...
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David Deirdre, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel
; ...correspondent to posterity, as Walter Bagehot once dubbed Dickens...recalling the dual influences of Sir Walter Scott (panoramic) and Jane...fiction production from the first Sir Waiter (Scott) to the second (Besant). Likewise, two chapters...
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