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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath 1932-63, American poet, b. Boston. Educated at Smith College and Cambridge, Plath published poems even as a child and won many academic and literary awards. Her first volume of poetry, The Colossus (1960), is at once highly disciplined, well crafted, and intensely personal; these... Read more |
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Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes (Edward James Hughes), 1930-98, English poet, b. Mytholmyroyd, Yorkshire. Hughes's best poetry focuses on the unsentimental within nature. His poems are marked by controlled diction and style, which create a sense of order and meaning in violent or passionate natural events, often in the... Read more |
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Elizabeth Hardwick
Elizabeth Hardwick 1916-2007, American literary critic, novelist, and short-story writer, b. Lexington, Ky.; grad Univ. of Kentucky (B.A., 1938; M.A., 1939). She moved (1939) to New York City, where she studied at Columbia and soon became a member of a circle of prominent urban intellectuals. Early... Read more |
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Sylvia Beach
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Sylvia Browne
Browne, Sylvia (1936-) Sylvia Browne, contemporary psychic and channel, was born Sylvia Shoemaker on October 19, 1936, in Kansas City, Missouri. She was one of those occasional children born with a caul (a thin membrane) over her face, an event which has differing significance in different... Read more |
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ransom
ransom price of redemption demanded by the captor of a person, vessel, or city. In ancient times cities frequently paid ransom to prevent their plundering by captors. The custom of ransoming was formerly sanctioned by law. Soldiers, given the right to kill or enslave their prisoners, frequently... Read more |
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner 1893-1978, English novelist and poet. Her first published work was poetry, The Espalier (1925), but she became more generally known with two novels of gentle fantasy, Lolly Willowes (1926) and Mr. Fortune's Maggot (1927). In The Corner That Held Them (1948), generally... Read more |
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Elizabeth Petrovna
Elizabeth Petrovna The Russian empress Elizabeth Petrovna (1709-1761) ruled from 1741 to 1761. Her reign was marked by Russia's continuing Westernization and growth as a great power. Born in Moscow on Dec. 18, 1709, Elizabeth was the daughter of Peter I and Catherine Alekseyevna. Her... Read more |
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Sylvia Earle
Sylvia A. Earle Sylvia A. Earle (born 1935) is a leading American oceanographer and former chief scientist. Earle is a devout advocate of public education regarding the importance of the oceans as an essential environmental habitat. Sylvia A. Earle is a former chief scientist of the National... Read more |
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Mary of Scotland
Mary of Scotland (1933), a play by Maxwell Anderson. [Alvin Theatre, 248 perf.] Because Catholic Mary Stuart of Scotland ( Helen Hayes) represents a genuine political threat to England's Protestant Queen Elizabeth ( Helen Menken), Elizabeth conspires with disaffected Scottish nobles to overthrow... Read more |
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