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Frances Burney Frances Burney
Burney, Frances ( Fanny) (1752–1840). Novelist and dramatist. Frances was one of the daughters of music historian Charles Burney, in whose circle she met Samuel Johnson and Edmund Burke. A quiet observer of mankind, her first novel, Evelina, was published anonymously in 1778 and well... Read more
Fanny Burney Fanny Burney
Fanny Burney later Madame D'Arblay , 1752-1840, English novelist, daughter of Charles Burney , the composer, organist, and music scholar. Although she received no formal education, she read prodigiously and had the benefit of conversation with her father's famous friends, including David ... Read more
Charles Burney Charles Burney
Charles Burney 1726-1814, English music historian, composer, and organist. His General History of Music (1776-89; 2d ed. 1935) was one of the first important music histories in English. He wrote The Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771) and The Present State of Music in Germany ... Read more
Austin Dobson Austin Dobson
Austin Dobson (Henry Austin Dobson), 1840-1921, English poet and essayist. From 1856 to 1901 he was employed in the Board of Trade. His volumes of light verse include Vignettes in Rhyme (1873), Proverbs in Porcelain (1877), and At the Sign of the Lyre (1885). Among his studies of 18th-century... Read more
Florenz Ziegfeld Florenz Ziegfeld
Florenz Ziegfeld , 1869-1932, American theatrical producer, b. Chicago. In 1907 he first produced the Ziegfeld Follies, for 24 years an annual revue famous for its extraordinarily elaborate staging, variety of performers, and chorus of beautiful women. Anna Held , Billie Burke, Fannie Brice,... Read more
Toby Keith Toby Keith
Toby Keith Singer, songwriter, guitarist Went to Nashville for a Contract Released Debut Album Christmas Songs Controversy Surrounded Song Selected discography Sources When singer-songwriter Toby Keith first entered the country charts with the 1993 hit single “Should’ve Been a... Read more
Fanny Fanny
Fanny (1954), a musical play by S. N. Behrman, Joshua Logan (book), Harold Rome (music, lyrics). [Majestic Theatre, 888 perf.] César ( Ezio Pinza), owner of a small Marseilles café, hopes his son Marius ( William Tabbert) will marry their young neighbor Fanny ( Florence Henderson) and... Read more
Kings Lynn Kings Lynn
King's Lynn town (1991 pop. 37,323), Norfolk, E England, on the Great Ouse River near its influx into The Wash, an inlet of the North Sea. Its large harbor serves foreign as well as coastal trade and is the base for a fishing fleet. A farm market, King's Lynn is a center for fertilizer production,... Read more
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colour blindness Some 8% of men exhibit a hereditary deficiency of colour perception, but so imprecise is our common coinage of words about colour that it was not until the eighteenth century that the existence of colour blindness was generally known — and only rather recently was it... Read more
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