"while Lalibela, a holy town in northern Ethiopia, inspired Bali Lali's. Another minor character, Dr. Morstan, takes his name from Mary Morstan, Dr. Watson’s wife. ""марионетка"", the Russian word for marionette, inspired the name of the antagonist Maphohetka. LeGrow comments that the series ""is about life, death and fabulous outfits (not in that order)"" and notes that there are ""a lot of religious themes"" present. The town of Bizenghast ""represents a world cut off from that sort of constant access [of technology]."" The series was initially written to span about fourteen volumes and be divided into three seasons: the first"
"birth and she had no other relatives in England, although she was educated there (in accordance with the received wisdom of the time about children in the colony of India) until the age of seventeen. Shortly afterwards her father disappeared and she found work as a governess. Watson and Mary marry in 1889. Mary Morstan is mentioned in passing in ""The Adventure of the Crooked Man"" and ""The Boscombe Valley Mystery"", but by the time of ""The Adventure of the Norwood Builder"" (after Holmes's return) Mary Morstan has died and Watson has returned to his former lodgings in Baker Street."
"Mary Robinson (poet) Mary Robinson (née Darby; 27 November 1757? – 26 December 1800) was an English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist, and celebrity figure. During her lifetime she was known as ""the English Sappho"". She earned her nickname ""Perdita"" for her role as Perdita (heroine of Shakespeare's ""The Winter's Tale"") in 1779. She was the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales. Robinson was born in Bristol, England to Nicholas Darby, a naval captain, and his wife Hester (née Vanacott) who had married at Donyatt, Somerset, in 1749, and was baptised 'Polle(y)' (""Spelt"
"with her, since they feared to receive a bad reputation sympathizing with Mary Robinson. Mary Robinson (poet) Mary Robinson (née Darby; 27 November 1757? – 26 December 1800) was an English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist, and celebrity figure. During her lifetime she was known as ""the English Sappho"". She earned her nickname ""Perdita"" for her role as Perdita (heroine of Shakespeare's ""The Winter's Tale"") in 1779. She was the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales. Robinson was born in Bristol, England to Nicholas Darby, a naval captain, and his wife Hester (née"
"the wife of Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, the youngest child of Edward III. In an effort to keep the inheritance for himself and his wife, Thomas of Woodstock pressured the child Mary into becoming a nun. In a plot with John of Gaunt, Mary's aunt took her from Thomas' castle at Pleshey back to Arundel whereupon she was married to Henry Bolingbroke, the future Henry IV. Mary married Henry—then known as Bolingbroke—on 27 July 1380, at Arundel Castle. At the time of her marriage, Mary was perhaps little more than twelve years old. It was at Monmouth"
"wedding and stole some livestock. Significantly, they were never divorced. Morant biographer Nick Bleszynski suggests that Dwyer played a more important role in Morant's life than has been previously thought, and that it was she who convinced him to change his name from Edwin Murrant to Harry Harbord Morant. After parting ways with Morant, Dwyer moved to New South Wales. She said that she became engaged to Philip Gipps but he died before they could marry, though no records support this. She then met John (Jack) Bates—like Morant, a bushman and drover—and they married on 17 February 1885. Their only"
"is angered that Holmes is not given any credit for it by the press. When Holmes refuses to record and publish his account of the adventure, Watson endeavours to do so himself. In time, Holmes and Watson become close friends. In ""The Sign of the Four"", John Watson becomes engaged to Mary Morstan, a governess. In ""The Adventure of the Empty House"", a reference by Watson to ""my own sad bereavement"" implies that Morstan has died by the time Holmes returns after faking his death; that fact is confirmed when Watson moves back to Baker Street to share lodgings with"
"miscommunication led Tonga to kill Bartholomew as well. Mary Morstan is left without the bulk of the Agra treasure, although she will apparently receive the rest of the chaplet. John Watson falls in love with Mary, and it is revealed at the end that he proposed to her and she has accepted. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle described how he was commissioned to write the story over a dinner with Joseph M. Stoddart, managing editor of an American publication ""Lippincott's Monthly Magazine"", at the Langham Hotel in London on 30 August 1889. Stoddart wanted to produce an English version of ""Lippincott’s"""
"a special ""den"" in her home where she would sit and read or write. Sometimes in London she would go to Clifford's Inn, where she had a small personal office. She wrote a play, ""Bon Secours"", in 1903. She may have written another play, ""Old Clothes"", mentioned in a collectors' item manuscript - a letter written in March 1904 by Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856–1934), who is also known as F. Anstey. She married Henry Torrens Anstruther in 1889. However, his political career did not go well and he never became a cabinet minister. They separated in 1912 and divorced in"
"Cora"", and a third, ""I'm not a simple little girl"". These hits established Millar in London. The Gaiety Theatre closed for renovations in 1902, and the last show at the old theatre was ""The Linkman; or, Gaiety Memories"", with Millar starring as Morgiana. She married Monckton on December 25, 1902 in St. Mark's Church, Surbiton, England. Monckton continued to write hit songs for her in subsequent shows. Millar became one of the most photographed women of the Edwardian period. She had top billing as the Hon. Violet Anstruther in ""The Orchid"", the show that opened the new Gaiety (1903; introducing"
"be a writer. She came to London about 1846, much at the same time as two friends, Alexander Macmillan and Charles Edward Mudie. Introduced by Camilla Toulmin to Westland Marston, she rapidly made friends in London, and found great encouragement for her stories for the young. In 1865 she married George Lillie Craik, a partner with Alexander Macmillan in the publishing firm Macmillan & Company, and nephew of George Lillie Craik. They adopted a foundling baby girl, Dorothy, in 1869. At Shortlands, near Bromley, Kent, while in a period of preparation for Dorothy's wedding, she died of heart failure on"
"modes of the moment."" Many of the best-known London couturiers designed costumes for Edwardes' productions. The illustrated periodicals were eager to publish photographs of actresses in the latest stage hits, and so the theatre became an excellent way for clothiers to publicise their latest fashions. Gaiety girls were polite, well-behaved young women and became a popular attraction and a symbol of ideal womanhood. They were much sought after by the ""stage door johnnies"" of the 1890s—some of them becoming popular actresses or marrying into society and even the nobility. For example, in 1907, Denise Orme married Lord Churston and she"
"are available. Mary Frances Dowdall Mary Frances Harriet Dowdall (née Borthwick, 1876–1939) was a London-born English writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her four novels are ""astutely critical"" on the subject of marriage. Mary Frances was the youngest of the five children of Cunninghame Borthwick, 19th Lord Borthwick (1813–1885) and his wife Harriet Alice (née Day, from Rochester, Kent, died 1917). She was privately educated. The family lived in Mayfair as her father worked as a stockbroker, but since 1870 they had also owned property in Scotland: Ravenstone Castle at Glasserton, Wigtownshire, now Dumfries and Galloway. In 1897 Mary Frances married"
"Evan Harrington Evan Harrington is an 1861 novel by George Meredith, a glowing comedy of Victorian presumptions. The second of Meredith's 'mainstream' novels, the work is loosely autobiographical in inspiration; and concerns the social climbing family (three married daughters; one unmarried son) of the recently deceased tailor, Melchisedec (The Great Mel) Harrington. Two of Meredith's most notable comic creations - The Great Mel and his daughter Louisa, the scheming Countess of Saldar - appear in the book. Among lesser comic figures are Jack Raikes and Mr Parsley. The love interest of the hero, Evan - who is urged up the"
"and poets some of whom clustered loosely round Oscar Wilde, whose arrest took place, famously, at the Cadogan Hotel. At the same time, the church figured and still figures high in the cherished heritage of the Cadogan family and its Estate. Extremely popular in the 1920s, there was a very extensive clergy team under the rector, Christopher Cheshire, including, for a time, the priest, ecclesiologist and hymnographer Percy Dearmer. On 16 January 1896 the marriage of George William Howard Bowen (son of Sir George Ferguson Bowen and Contessa Diamantina di Roma) to Gertrude Chamberlain, niece of Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary"
"rest of her life. Her daughter Violet married the future Marquess of Bath. In his early forties Mordaunt married again, on 24 April 1878, to Mary Louisa Cholmondeley (b. 24 Aug 1851, d. 10 Jun 1947), a 16-year-old parson's daughter. Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th Baronet Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th Baronet (28 April 1836 – 15 October 1897) was a wealthy English country gentleman, a Conservative Member of Parliament for South Warwickshire (1859–1868) and High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1879. He became notorious for involving Prince Albert Edward, The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), in his divorce case. Mordaunt"
"his doubtless ill-gotten gains, and also apologize to Florence for trying to force her into marriage. He also demands Coyle's resignation as the steward of Trenchard Manor, making Murcott steward instead. Murcott is so pleased that he vows to stop drinking. Coyle has no choice but to do all this. Florence marries Harry, Dundreary marries Georgina, and Augusta marries an old beau. Even the servants marry. The play's most famous performance was at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. The cast modified a line of the play in honor of Abraham Lincoln: when the heroine asked for"
"and was the third of Disney's British productions after ""Treasure Island"" (1950) and ""The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men"" (1952). In 1956, it was broadcast on American television in two parts under the original book title. Mary Tudor falls in love with a new arrival to court, Charles Brandon. She persuades her brother King Henry VIII to make him his Captain of the Guard. Meanwhile, Henry is determined to marry her off to the aging King Louis XII of France as part of a peace agreement. Mary's longtime suitor the Duke of Buckingham takes a dislike to"
"of Argyll. No marriage between a daughter of a monarch and a British subject had been given official recognition since 1515, when Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, married King Henry VIII's sister Mary. Louise's brother, the prince of Wales, was strongly opposed to a marriage with a non-mediatized noble. Furthermore, Lorne's father, George Campbell, was an ardent supporter of William Ewart Gladstone, and the prince of Wales was worried that he would drag the royal family into political disputes. Nevertheless, the opposition was crushed by the queen, who wrote to the prince of Wales in 1869: The queen averred"
"was a work praised at the time. Poyntz married, in February 1732–3, Anna Maria Mordaunt, daughter of the Hon. Lewis Mordaunt, brigadier-general, and maid of honour to Queen Caroline of Ansbach. She had been a great beauty, addressed by Samuel Croxall in his poem ""The Fair Circassian"". They had two sons—William of Midgham (d. 1809), and Charles, prebendary of Durham—and two daughters, Margaret Georgina and Louisa. Louisa died unmarried, but Margaret Georgina became the wife, at Althorp, on 27 December 1755 (the day after he came of age), of the future John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer. Anna Poyntz was in"
"its florid and baroque style and parody-like humour, and its sexual innuendos both heterosexual and homosexual. There is also a fanciful brand of Catholicism, a blend of mortification of the flesh, high-flown mysticism, and proselytism. In 1958, a musical adaptation was made by Sandy Wilson. Two wealthy elderly Valmouth-area ladies, Mrs Hurstpierpoint and Mrs Thoroughfare, are concerned with the marriage prospects of the latter's son, Captain Dick Thoroughfare. The Captain, away at sea, is rather scandalously engaged to a black girl, Niri-Esther, but he also favours his 'chum', Jack Whorwood. Thetis Tooke, a local farmer's daughter, is obsessed with Captain"
"marries him largely out of pity. But the marriage is not a happy one, despite great wealth and the birth of four children. Sir Isaac is inherently domineering, and in an age of Suffragettes he encounters a desire for greater freedom in his wife. The plot of the novel turns on Lady Harman's relationship with George Brumley (invariably ""Mr. Brumley"" in the text), a successful genteel novelist whose wife has died three and a half years earlier. Lady Harman meets Mr. Brumley because the Harmans buy his house, Black Strand, in the countryside outside London. Mr. Brumley falls in love"
"Mary Boyle, Countess of Cork and Orrery Mary Boyle, Countess of Cork and Orrery (21 May 1746 – 30 May 1840) was an Anglo-Irish literary hostess. Born Mary Monckton, she was a daughter of John Monckton, 1st Viscount Galway by his second wife, Jane Westenra of Rathleagh, Queen's County, Ireland. From her early years, she took a keen interest in literature, and through her influence, her mother's house in London became a favourite meeting place of literary celebrities; Dr Johnson was a frequent guest. Boswell places Mary Monckton among the bluestocking clubs, and writes: The playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan was"
"novel ""Mary Anne"" (1954) is a fictionalised account of her great-great-grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke née Thompson (1776–1852), who, from 1803–08, was mistress of Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827). He was the ""Grand Old Duke of York"" of the nursery rhyme, a son of King George III, and brother of King George IV and King William IV. The central character of her last novel, ""Rule Britannia"", is an aging actress, thought to be based on Gladys Cooper (to whom it is dedicated). Du Maurier's short stories are darker: ""The Birds"", ""Don't Look Now"", ""The Apple Tree"", and ""The"
"Through her father, she was a niece of Robert Goelet (1841–1899), and a first cousin of Robert Walton Goelet (1880–1941). The 8th Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh settled at Floors Castle, where Mary decorated the fortress with her own collection of art including a priceless series of 17th century Gobelins Manufactory tapestries. At the time of her marriage to the Duke of Roxburghe, she was the wealthiest American heiress, with a dowry of twenty million dollars, exceeded only by Consuelo Vanderbilt in the wealth brought to the transatlantic marriages of the pre-1914 era (see Gilded Age). In 1913, she first"
"of England; most of the inhabitants are centenarians, and some are older (""the last time I went to the play...was with Charles the Second and Louise de Querouaille, to see Betterton play Shylock""). The inconsequential plot is concerned with the attempts of two elderly ladies, Mrs Hurstpierpoint and Mrs Thoroughfare, to marry off the heir to Hare-Hatch House, Captain Dick Thoroughfare. Captain Thoroughfare, who is engaged to a black woman, Niri-Esther, is loved frantically by Thetis Tooke, a farmer's daughter, but prefers his 'chum', Jack Whorwood, to both of them. Meanwhile Mrs Yajñavalkya, a black masseuse, manages an alliance between"
"by books, paintings, sculpture and in the company of writers such as Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and Matthew Prior as well as aristocrats and politicians. As a child, she collected pets and natural history objects (especially seashells) and was encouraged by her father and her paternal grandfather, the 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, to do so. At 19, on 11 July 1734, in Oxford Chapel, Marylebone, she married the 2nd Duke of Portland, her 'Sweet Will', and they later had six children (all born at Welbeck Abbey): In 1738–1756 the scholar Elizabeth Elstob was their tutor. By the November"
"Lady Caroline Lamb Lady Caroline Lamb (née Ponsonby; 13 November 1785 – 25 January 1828), known as the Honourable Caroline Ponsonby until her father succeeded to the earldom in 1793, was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and novelist, best known for her work Glenarvon, a Gothic novel. She is also known for her affair with Lord Byron in 1812. Her husband was The Hon. William Lamb, who later became Viscount Melbourne and Prime Minister. However, she was never the Viscountess Melbourne because she died before Melbourne succeeded to the peerage. She was the only daughter of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough,"
"Mary Robinson (Maid of Buttermere) Mary Robinson (1778 – 7 February 1837) was known as ""The Maid of Buttermere"" and is mentioned in William Wordsworth's ""The Prelude"". She is the subject of Melvyn Bragg's 1987 novel ""The Maid of Buttermere"", which was adapted into a play by Lisa Evans and premiered at Keswick's Theatre by the Lake in 2009. She was a shepherdess and the daughter of the landlord of the Fish Inn in the village of Buttermere in England's Lake District. She was married bigamously in 1802 to John Hatfield (c.1758–1803), who presented himself as ""Colonel Hope"". The marriage"
"not been done in the preceding novel, ""A Study in Scarlet"" (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan. According to Mary, in December 1878, her father had telegraphed her upon his safe return from India and requested her to meet him at the Langham Hotel in London. When Mary arrived at the hotel, she was told her father had gone out the previous night and not returned. Despite all efforts, no trace has ever been found of him. Mary contacted her father's only friend who was in the same regiment and had since retired to England, one"
"a marriage is frowned upon by his mother Lady Arabella and the de Courcys. His snobbish mother and maternal aunt bearing the aristocratic de Courcy family name wish him to marry a thirty-year-old eccentric but intelligent and kind-hearted, heiress, Martha Dunstable. He reluctantly visits Courcy Castle and they become friends. He foolishly and playfully proposes. She demurs, knowing that he does not love her and he tells her about his love for Mary. Sir Roger is a chronic drunkard and Doctor Thorne tries in vain to get him to curtail his drinking. In his will, he stipulates that the bulk"
"time, she blew him a kiss in greeting. Mary and Charles had four children, two daughters and two sons: Mary and Charles raised their children at their home at Westhorpe Hall. Their two sons, both named Henry, are commonly mistaken for being the same son. Both boys died when they were children. Mary's widower later married their son's (Henry Brandon, Earl of Lincoln) betrothed, who was also his ward, the 14-year-old Catherine Willoughby, by whom he had his two youngest sons. She is the main character in several historical fiction novels: Mary Tudor, Queen of France Mary Tudor (; 18"
"to England the following year. In 1883, she published a biography of the writer Mary Lamb. Anne Gilchrist (writer) Anne Gilchrist (182829 November 1885), née Burrows, was an English writer, best known for her connection to American poet Walt Whitman. She was born in 1828 to John Parker and Henrietta Borrows. Her father died after a horse riding accident when she was eleven and she was brought up in London. She came from a distinguished Essex family, and married the art and literary critic Alexander Gilchrist in 1851 after a two year engagement. Five years later, in Chelsea, west London,"