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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett English-born American author Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) had a long and productive writing career, during which she penned 55 titles, 5 of which became best-sellers and 13 of which were adapted for the stage. Although remembered primarily for her children's books,... Read more |
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Ralph Hodgson
Ralph Hodgson 1871-1962, English poet. He wrote five volumes of poetry before his collected poems appeared in 1917. After a silence of nearly 40 years—during which time he taught in Japan and emigrated to the United States—he published two more volumes. Hodgson treated his subject... Read more |
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Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett bernĕt´ , 1849-1924, American author, b. Manchester, England. In 1865 she went to Knoxville, Tenn., with her family. She wrote several adult novels, but is famous for her children's books, particularly Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886; successfully dramatized... Read more |
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Ferdinand Christian Baur
Ferdinand Christian Baur , 1792-1860, German Protestant theologian. He was from 1826 on the theological faculty of Tübingen. He became convinced of Hegel's philosophy of history and studied Christian history and doctrines and the Bible from that point of view. In New Testament criticism he... Read more |
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Walter Hilton
Walter Hilton d. 1396, English religious writer, an Austin canon of Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire. His spiritual treatise The Scale of Perfection (ed. by Evelyn Underhill, 1923) is a general manual for holy living. Although it was addressed to a Carthusian recluse, it became popular among English... Read more |
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Esmeralda
Esmeralda (1881), a play by Francis Hodgson Burnett, William Gillette. [Madison Square Theatre, 350 perf.] Esmeralda Rogers ( Annie Russell), a winsome North Carolina farm girl, falls in love with her rugged, good‐natured neighbor, Dave Hardy ( Eben Plympton), but her ambitious mother,... Read more |
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William Gillette
William Gillette , 1853-1937, American actor and dramatist, b. Hartford, Conn. His New York debut in Mark Twain's Gilded Age (1877) was shortly followed by his own first play, The Professor (1881). In the same year Esmeralda, written with Frances Hodgson Burnett, established his success. Held... Read more |
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Cedric
Cedric ♂ Coined by Sir Walter Scott for the character Cedric of Rotherwood in Ivanhoe (1819). It seems to be an altered form of Cerdic, the name of the traditional founder of the kingdom of Wessex. Cerdic was a Saxon (Scott's novel also has a Saxon setting), and his name is presumably of... Read more |
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Trinity
Trinity [Lat.,=threefoldness], fundamental doctrine in Christianity, by which God is considered as existing in three persons. While the doctrine is not explicitly taught in the New Testament, early Christian communities testified to a perception that Jesus was God in the flesh; the idea of the... Read more |
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Montauban
Montauban , city (1990 pop. 52,278), capital of Tarn-et-Garonne dept., S France, on the Tarn River. It is a commercial and industrial center where aeronautic and electrical equipment, food products, textiles, shoes, and tiles are produced. Founded in 1144, Montauban was a stronghold of the ... Read more |
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