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Sydney Thompson Dobell
Sydney Thompson Dobell , 1824-74, English poet. He is best known for the melodramatic, extravagantly emotional poem Balder (1853). In 1855 he published jointly with Alexander Smith (1830-67) some sonnets on the Crimean War. ... Read more
Daniel Pierce Thompson
Daniel Pierce Thompson 1795-1868, American novelist, b. Charlestown, Mass. He wrote adventure novels, many of which deal with life in Vermont. His notable work is The Green Mountain Boys (1839). ... Read more
Ernest Thompson Seton
Ernest Thompson Seton 1860-1946, American writer and artist, b. England. His name was originally Ernest Seton Thompson. His stories and paintings of wildlife, especially Wild Animals I Have Known (1898, new ed. 1942), were standard works on nature study and wood lore for boys and girls in the fir... Read more
Kamloops
Kamloops , city (1991 pop. 67,057), S British Columbia, Canada, at the junction of the North Thompson and South Thompson rivers. A trading post was first established on the site in 1812. A village grew up at the time of the Cariboo gold rush (1860), and in 1885 the main line of the Canadian Pacific ... Read more
William T. Thompson
William T. Thompson 1812-82, American humorist and editor, b. Ravenna, Ohio. He was founder and editor of the Savannah Morning News, which became one of the most prominent newspapers in Georgia. In his editorials he often defended slavery. He is remembered for his use of dialect in short stories ... Read more
Ernest Thompson Sinton Walton
Ernest Thompson Sinton Walton 1903-95, Irish physicist, educated at Methodist College (Belfast), Trinity College (Dublin), and Cambridge. He became a fellow of Trinity College in 1934 and professor of natural and experimental philosophy there in 1946. The 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded joi... Read more
Francis Thompson
Francis Thompson 1859-1907, English poet. His poetry, usually on religious subjects, is noted for its brilliant imagery and sonorous language. He was educated for the Roman Catholic priesthood at Ushaw College but in 1877 entered Owens College, Manchester, to study medicine. Relinquishing his medic... Read more
Alice (Thompson) Meynell
Alice (Thompson) Meynell , 1847-1922, English poet and essayist. She spent most of her youth in Italy. Converted to Roman Catholicism in 1872, she wrote much on religious subjects. In 1877 she married Wilfrid Meynell (1852-1948), the founder and editor of Merry England, a Catholic paper, to which ... Read more
William Boyce Thompson
William Boyce Thompson 1869-1930, American financier, b. Virginia City, Mont. He operated silver and copper mines in Montana and Arizona before moving to New York City. He was (1914-19) a director of the Federal Reserve bank of New York and was twice (1916, 1920) a delegate to the Republican nation... Read more
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Frederick Winslow Taylor 1856-1915, American industrial engineer, b. Germantown, Pa., grad. Stevens Institute of Technology, 1883. He was called the father of scientific management. His management methods for shops, offices, and industrial plants were successfully introduced in many industries, not... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to " Emma Thompson"

Thompson, Emma
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Thompson, Emma (1959– ) English actress and screenwriter. She was married (1989–95) to Kenneth Branagh , and acted in his film adaptations of Shakespeare's Henry V (1989) and Much Ado Nothing (1993). Thompson won an Academy Award for best actress in Howard's End (1991). She won a ... Read more
mystery
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Gulick's Magistrate Dee, Harry Kemelman's Rabbi David Small, Emma Lathan's John Putnam Thatcher, Ellery Queen in the works of...interest in hard-boiled stories, with such popular authors as Jim Thompson and Charles Willeford. An extension of the detective novel is... Read more

Dictionary entries related to " Emma Thompson"

Thompson, Emma
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers THOMPSON, Emma Nationality: British. Born: London, England...Em: A Biography of Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson , New York, 1995. On THOMPSON: articles...York), January 1990. Miller, Russell, "Emma Thompson's Family Business," in New York Times... Read more
Edmonds, Sara Emma Evelyn
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Edmonds, Sara Emma Evelyn (1841–98) soldier, nurse...joined the army under the name of Franklin Thompson, successfully hiding her true sex from most...she nursed the wounded at Harpers Ferry . Emma Edmonds Seeyle (her married name) is the... Read more
Branagh, Kenneth
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Reading, England, at age nine. Family: Married the actress Emma Thompson 1989 (separated 1995). Education: Was graduated from...series Fortunes of War ; 1988 — in TV series Thompson ; 1989 — wrote biography, Beginning , in order... Read more
Howards End
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...John Bight. Cast: Anthony Hopkins ( Henry Wilcox ); Emma Thompson ( Margaret Schlegel ); Vanessa Redgrave ( Ruth Wilcox...But it also captured the Best Actress prize for star Emma Thompson, adding millions of dollars to the picture's already... Read more
Winslet, Kate
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...playing Marianne Dashwood alongside Emma Thompson as Elinor. There was a danger here of casting to type, with Thompson playing the sensible older sister...friends, and Winslet benefited from Thompson's greater experience. Her next... Read more
Carrington, Dora
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...then there have been several books and exhibitions devoted to her work, and a film about her life, Carrington (with Emma Thompson in the title role), was released in 1995. Her brother Noel Carrington (1895–1989) was a publisher and book designer... Read more
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Comic Art of Jacques Tati," in Screen (London), February 1970. Thompson, Kristin, "Parameters of the Open Film: Les Vacances de Monsieur...Brussels), no. 434, September 1993. Sope ñ a Balordi, A. Emma, and Marie-France Lorente, "Les (autres) vacances de Monsieur... Read more
Kerr, Deborah
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Rocks (Donohue) (as Valerie Edwards) 1967 Eye of the Devil (Thompson — produced 1966) (as Catherine de Montfaucon); Casino...as Helen) 1986 Hold the Dream (Sharp — for TV) (as Emma Harte) Publications By KERR: articles — Interview with... Read more
Schamus, James
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...watershed for Good Machine and co-producer Schamus, garnering seven Academy Awards nominations (including a win for Emma Thompson's screenplay adaptation of the Jane Austen novel) and a greater commercial viability for the production company. The... Read more
Bonham-Carter, Helena
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...thinks of Merchant/Ivory/Jhabvala and E. M. Forster, one also thinks of Helena Bonham-Carter. Other actors, including Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, James Wilby, and Hugh Grant, have appeared in more than one James Ivory-directed feature beginning... Read more

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Any more at home? (actress Sophie Thompson's role in the film 'Emma')
Magazine article from: Interview; 9/1/1996; ; 399 words ; ...parents who brought you Emma Thompson, here's another amazing...stage director Eric Thompson. Their eldest, Emma, scripted and starred...well-meaning Miss Bates? When Emma Woodhouse (Gwyneth Paltrow...quick. As Miss Bates, Thompson falters over her words... Read more
Gansler, Laura Leedy. The mysterious Private Thompson; the double life of Sarah Emma Edmons, Civil War soldier.(Young adult review)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt; 9/1/2007; ; 326 words ; ...Leedy. The mysterious Private Thompson; the double life of Sarah Emma Edmons, Civil War soldier...she had read years earlier, Emma dressed as a man and, in this...beginning of the Civil War, Emma enlisted in a Michigan regiment...physical was cursory at best. Emma became Private Frank ... Read more
Emma's alert.
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England); 2/13/2008; 37 words ; Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson warned that human trafficking is on the increase. She said the trade in exploiting people by forcing, or deceiving them, into leaving their homes was the third largest shadow economy after drugs and arms. Read more
Sarah Emma Edmonds. Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy: a Woman's Adventures in the Union Army.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Michigan Historical Review; 3/22/2001; ; 446 words ; Sarah Emma Edmonds. Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy: A Woman's Adventures in the...memoir (that we know of) by a woman who disguised herself as a man (Franklin Thompson, Second Michigan Infantry Regiment) in order to participate in the Civil... Read more
Henry Thompson Jr.
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 7/3/2009; 270 words ; ...long illness. His wife of 50 years, Gloria M. (Weinaut) Thompson, died in 2000. He is survived by his daughter, Karen...Elizabeth Mahan; his first cousins, Harold and George Thompson, Eleanor Marshall, James Hannigan, and Midge Bovenzi; many nieces and nephews. A brother, Edward J. Thompson, and a ... Read more
Henry A. "Gunner" Thompson, Jr., 82.(DEATHS)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 6/29/2009; 304 words ; CLINTON Henry A. Gunner Thompson, Jr., 82, of 79 Woodruff Road, died Saturday, June 27...long illness. His wife of 50 years, Gloria M. (Weinaut) Thompson, died in 2000. He is survived by his daughter, Karen...Elizabeth Mahan; his first cousins: Harold and George Thompson, Eleanor Marshall, James Hannigan, ... Read more
Lancers unbeaten at midway point.(Sports)(Jared Thompson tosses a three-hitter as Churchill moves to 8-0 in Midwestern League baseball play)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 4/25/2004; 652 words ; ...baseball victory over visiting South Eugene on Saturday. Jared Thompson pitched a three-hitter while going the distance for the Lancers...to a 7-1 nonleague win over Junction City. Marie Peroutka and Emma Batenhorst blanked their singles opponents for the Lancers... Read more
Sense and Sensibility.
Magazine article from: National Review; 1/29/1996; ; 481 words ; ...work, the screenplay that Emma Thompson drew from it, and the film...faces and figures -- Miss Thompson's ovals and elongations...acting by our scenarist. Miss Thompson has been remarkable in most...liberating outburst, and what Miss Thompson does with it makes histrionic...This applies ... Read more
Angels in America.(Video Recording Review)
Magazine article from: Cineaste; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...starring Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Justin Kirk, Mary Louise Parker...Prior is visited by an Angel (Emma Thompson) who has declared him a Prophet...the other performances are fine--Emma Thompson's Angel is both overtly erotic... Read more
Dance divas at the festival!
Newspaper article from: Ballymena Times (Ballymena, Northern Ireland); 3/9/2006; 700+ words ; ...Ellen Callan Slip Jig 1. Carly Thompson, 2. Juliet Stirling, Hannah...YRS. 1..Ashley Dempsey 2. Emma Mc Ilveen, Emma Gilmore 3. Nichola Hegarty...Blaire Nicholl, Cara Nicholl 3. Emma Mc Kay, Sacha Laverty, Danielle...PRIZEWINNERS] 14yrs. 1. Carly Thompson 2. Toni Smith, Hannah Todd...Hamill ... Read more