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Meg Rosoff Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff1958 • Boston, MassachusettsWriterMeg Rosoff made a remarkable debut as a fiction writer with her 2004 novel for young adults, How I Live Now. It won several awards, and reviewers recommended it as a suitable book for adult readers, too. The story takes place in a war-ravaged England of... Read more
Our American Cousin Our American Cousin
Our American Cousin (1858). A comedy by Englishman Tom Taylor, it originally centered on a rather bumptious Yankee, Asa Trenchard, who arrives in England, where he rescues his virtually impoverished English relatives from the treacherous financial machinations of a supposed family counselor and... Read more
Berenice Berenice
Berenice, tale by Poe, published in the Southern Literary Messenger (1835) and reprinted in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840).Egaeus, gloomy and unhealthy, grows up with his cousin Berenice, who is “agile …overflowing with energy” until she contracts a form of epilepsy... Read more
Maud Maud
Maud ♀ Medieval vernacular form of Matilda. This form was characteristically Low German (i.e. including medieval Dutch and Flemish). The wife of William the Conqueror, who bore this name, was the daughter of Baldwin, Count of Flanders. In Flemish and Dutch the letter -t- was generally... Read more
Laura Keene Laura Keene
Laura Keene c.1826-1873, Anglo-American actress-manager, b. England. She played with Mme Vestris at the Lyceum, London. She emigrated to the United States in 1852 and became manager (1855) of Laura Keene's Varieties Theater, New York City. In 1856 she opened Laura Keene's Theater (later the... Read more
Victoria (Great Britain) Victoria (Great Britain)
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) , 1819-1901, queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901) and empress of India (1876-1901). She was the daughter of Edward, duke of Kent (fourth son of George III), and Princess Mary Louise Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Early Reign Victoria's father died... Read more
Agnes Booth Agnes Booth
Booth, Agnes [née Marian Agnes Land Rookes] (1846–1910), actress. Coming from her native Sydney, Australia, she made her first American appearance in San Francisco in 1858 as a child dancer. Using the name Agnes Land, she acted at Maguire's Opera House, then as Mrs. H. A. Perry... Read more
The Old Maid The Old Maid
Old Maid, The (1935), a play by Zoë Akins. [Empire Theatre, 305 perf.; Pulitzer Prize.] When Charlotte Lovell ( Helen Menken) has an illegitimate daughter, her married cousin, Delia Ralston ( Judith Anderson), agrees to raise her as her own. Delia also prevents Charlotte from marrying her... Read more
Arabella Stuart Arabella Stuart
Arabella Stuart 1575-1615, cousin of James I of England (James VI of Scotland). She was the daughter of Charles Stuart, earl of Lennox, younger brother of Lord Darnley , and her descent from Henry VIII's sister Margaret Tudor placed her next after James in the line of succession to Elizabeth I... Read more
Edna Manley Edna Manley
Manley, Edna (1900–1987). Jamaican sculptor, born Edna Swithenbank in Bournemouth, the daughter of an English clergyman and a Jamaican mother. She studied sculpture in London, at the Royal Academy and elsewhere. In 1921 she married her cousin Norman Manley and settled with him in Jamaica,... Read more

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