"Vanessa (butterfly) Vanessa is a genus of brush-footed butterflies in the tribe Nymphalini. It has a near-global distribution and includes conspicuous species such as the red admirals (e.g., red admiral, Indian red admiral, New Zealand red admiral), the Kamehameha, and the painted ladies of subgenus ""Cynthia"": painted lady, American painted lady, West Coast lady, Australian painted lady, etc. For African admirals see genus, ""Antanartia"". Recently, several members traditionally considered to be in the genus ""Antanartia"" have been determined to belong within the genus ""Vanessa"". The name of the genus may have been taken from the character Vanessa in Jonathan Swift's"
"top 100 most commonly used names for baby girls in England and Wales in 1934. The oldest written record of the name Jessica is in Shakespeare's play ""The Merchant of Venice"", where it belongs to the daughter of Shylock. Jessica is the seventh most popular name for baby girls in England and Wales in 2015. First appearing in 13th century England, Olivia was popularised by Shakespeare's character in the ""Twelfth Night"" (1602). Vanessa was created by Jonathan Swift in his poem ""Cadenus and Vanessa"" (1713). While it first appeared in late 16th century England, Pamela was popularised after Samuel Richardson"
"""Vanessa"" was adopted as the name of a genus of butterfly by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1807. Vanessa was the 71st most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2007. It has been among the top 200 names for girls in the United States since 1953 and among the top 100 names for girls since 1977. It first appeared among the top 1,000 names for girls in the United States in 1950, when it appeared on the list ranked in 939th place. In Germany, Vanessa has been among the top 100 names for girls since 1976. The"
"her first name. With this poem, Swift created the popular woman's name ""Vanessa"". Cadenus and Vanessa Cadenus and Vanessa is a poem by Jonathan Swift about one of his lovers, Esther Vanhomrigh (Vanessa), written in 1712 and published as a book in 1726, three years after the death of Vanhomrigh. It contains in its title an anagram and a neologism: ""Cadenus"" is an anagram of the Latin ""decanus"", meaning ‘dean’: Swift was dean of St Patrick's, and known as Dean Swift in the manner of the time. The neologism is ""Vanessa"", in secret reference to Esther Vanhomrigh. The name starts"
"Sidney for a pivotal character in his epic prose work, ""The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia""; Jessica, created by William Shakespeare in his play ""The Merchant of Venice""; Vanessa, created by Jonathan Swift; Fiona, a character from James Macpherson's spurious cycle of Ossian poems; Wendy, an obscure name popularised by J. M. Barrie in his play ""Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up""; and Madison, a character from the movie ""Splash"". Lara and Larissa were rare in America before the appearance of ""Doctor Zhivago,"" and have become fairly common since. Songs can influence the naming of children. Jude jumped"
"Vanna Vanna ( ) is a given name that first appeared in recorded European history circa 1294. The Italian medieval feminine name originated in Tuscany, and is particular to Florence, Italy. Though similar in pronunciation to the Italian name Giovanna, and conjectured to be derived from it, Vanna is neither a nickname nor a derivation. The name Vanna first appears in print in ""La Vita Nuova"", a thirteenth-century book of verse written by Dante Alighieri, an Italian Florentine poet. In one verse, Dante writes that (anthropomorphized) Love itself proclaims that Vanna is ""Primavera"" (""Springtime"") and declares that Beatrice's name is"
"Esther Vanhomrigh Esther Vanhomrigh (known by the pseudonym Vanessa; c. 1688 – 2 June 1723), an Irish woman of Dutch descent, was a longtime lover and correspondent of Jonathan Swift. Swift's letters to her were published after her death. Her fictional name ""Vanessa"" was created by Swift by taking ""Van"" from her surname, Vanhomrigh, and adding ""Esse"", the pet form of her first name, Esther. She was fictionalized as ""Vanessa"" in Swift's poem ""Cadenus and Vanessa"" (1713). In the poem, he wrote: Vanessa’s bower is the riverside venue near Celbridge Abbey where they are said to have spent time together."
"Venus and the Seven Sexes ""Venus and the Seven Sexes"" is a science fiction story by American writer William Tenn. It was first published in the anthology ""The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, and Other Stories"" (Avon Publishing) in 1949, and then in 1953 in the anthology ""Science-Fiction Carnival"" by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds (Shasta Publishers). The story was reprinted in 1968 in ""The Seven Sexes"", an anthology of William Tenn's short stories published by Ballantine Books. It also appeared in the 2001 anthology of William Tenn's works titled ""Immodest Proposals"", published by NESFA Press. On the planet Venus,"
"The Birth of Venus (novel) The Birth of Venus: A Novel is a 2003 novel by Sarah Dunant, a bestselling British author. The story is set in the late 15th century in Florence, Italy. It was first published in London by Little, Brown in 2003 with the title The Birth of Venus: love and death in Florence. A young Florentine girl, Alessandra Cecchi, is drawn to a young painter commissioned to paint the family's chapel walls. The painter is brought to her home by her father, a rich textile merchant whose business would be negatively affected by the rise of"
"Cadenus and Vanessa Cadenus and Vanessa is a poem by Jonathan Swift about one of his lovers, Esther Vanhomrigh (Vanessa), written in 1712 and published as a book in 1726, three years after the death of Vanhomrigh. It contains in its title an anagram and a neologism: ""Cadenus"" is an anagram of the Latin ""decanus"", meaning ‘dean’: Swift was dean of St Patrick's, and known as Dean Swift in the manner of the time. The neologism is ""Vanessa"", in secret reference to Esther Vanhomrigh. The name starts with the first three letters of her surname and the first two of"
"Her romance, it seems, is necessary, because she is the only one who can save him. The Birth of Venus (novel) The Birth of Venus: A Novel is a 2003 novel by Sarah Dunant, a bestselling British author. The story is set in the late 15th century in Florence, Italy. It was first published in London by Little, Brown in 2003 with the title The Birth of Venus: love and death in Florence. A young Florentine girl, Alessandra Cecchi, is drawn to a young painter commissioned to paint the family's chapel walls. The painter is brought to her home by"
"first child born to English parents in North America. Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter that prompted the famous ""Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"" editorial in the September 21, 1897 edition of the ""New York Sun"". The most famous Virginia is probably the English modernist author Virginia Woolf. Virginia (given name) Virginia is a feminine given name derived from the Ancient Roman family name ""Virginius"", a name probably derived from the Latin word virgo, meaning """"maiden"""" or """"virgin""."" According to legend, Virginia was a Roman girl who was killed by her father in order to save her from seduction"
"Vanessa Walters Vanessa Walters, (born 1978, in London, United Kingdom) is an English novelist and playwright. She is also a commentator and critic. She is best known as the teenage novelist discovered to be writing a novel as a hobby to share with her school friends. Educated at Queen's College, London, when discovered by teachers, the journal was passed over to an agent who quickly had her signed to a publishing company with a five-figure book deal even before she'd left. The book, ""Rude Girls"", made her a success, but instead of diving head long into the literary world she"
"The Lost Girl The Lost Girl is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1920. It was awarded the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the fiction category. Lawrence started it shortly after writing ""Women in Love"", and worked on it only sporadically until he completed it in 1920. Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a widowed Midlands draper, comes of age just as her father’s business is failing. In a desperate attempt to regain his fortune and secure his daughter’s proper upbringing, James Houghton buys a theater. Among the traveling performers he employs is Ciccio, a sensual"
"The Young Slave The Young Slave is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the ""Pentamerone"". It is Aarne-Thompson type 410, Sleeping Beauty; other variants include ""The Glass Coffin"" and ""Sun, Moon, and Talia"". Girls competed to jump over a rose bush; at last Cilia, the baron's sister, did so, but she knocked off a rose petal. To pretend she had cleared it entirely, she swallowed the petal and became pregnant. She bore a daughter, named her Lisa, and gave her to fairies to raise. The fairies gave her gifts, but one twisted her"
"The Cave Girl The Cave Girl is a lost world novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. Originally published in two separate stories, ""The Cave Girl"" begun in February 1913 and published by ""All-Story"" in July, August, and September 1913; and ""The Cave Man"" begun in 1914 and published by ""All-Story Weekly"" throughout March and April 1917. The book version was first published by A. C. McClurg on 1925-03-21. In August 1949, Dell Paperback published a version with a map captioned ""Wild Island Home of Nadara the Cave Girl Where Violence and Bloodshed Rule."" Blueblooded mama's boy Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones"
"Blueberry Girl Blueberry Girl is a book by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess. It was conceived as a poem of the same name, written in 2000 by Neil Gaiman for his goddaughter Tash, the daughter of his friend Tori Amos. In 2004, Neil Gaiman announced that Charles Vess was painting pictures to go with the poem, with the intention of publishing it as book. The book was published in 2009 by HarperCollins. The book was well received on release, with both the writing and drawing being praised. In 2009 it was selected for the ""Summer 2009 Kids List"" by the"
"as ""ever since I was a little creature, scribbling a story in the manner of Hawthorne on the green plush sofa in the drawing room at St. Ives while the grown-ups dined"". By the age of five she was writing letters and could tell her father a story every night. Later she, Vanessa and Adrian would develop the tradition of inventing a serial about their next-door neighbours, every night in the nursery, or in the case of St. Ives, of spirits that resided in the garden. It was her fascination with books that formed the strongest bond between her and"
"The Princess and the Pea ""The Princess and the Pea"" (; literal translation: ""The Princess on the Pea"") is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a young woman whose royal identity is established by a test of her sensitivity. The tale was first published with three others by Andersen in an inexpensive booklet on 8 May 1835 in Copenhagen by C. A. Reitzel. Andersen had heard the story as a child, and it likely has its source in folk material, possibly originating from Sweden, as it is unknown in the Danish oral tradition. Neither ""The Princess and"
"farmhouse of Charleston, Sussex, where Vanessa lived with Duncan and her three children by Clive and Duncan. He fully supported her wish to have a child by Duncan and allowed his wife's only daughter, Angelica, to bear his surname. Vanessa's daughter by Duncan, Angelica Garnett (née Bell), was raised as Clive's daughter until she married. She was informed, by her mother Vanessa, just prior to her marriage and shortly after her brother Julian's death, that Duncan Grant was her biological father. According to historian Stanley Rosenbaum, ""Bell may, indeed, be the least liked member of Bloomsbury... Bell has been found"
"Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem) Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare published in 1593. It is probably Shakespeare's first publication. The poem tells the story of Venus, the goddess of Love; of her unrequited love; and of her attempted seduction of Adonis, an extremely handsome young man, who would rather go hunting. The poem is pastoral, and at times erotic, comic, and tragic. It contains discourses on the nature of love, and observations of nature. It is written in a verse form known as ""sesta rima"", which is a quatrain followed by a couplet (ABABCC). This"
"The Wizard of Venus ""The Wizard of Venus"" is a novella by Edgar Rice Burroughs, as well as the title of a collection in which it was later published together with an unrelated story. ""The Wizard of Venus"" is the final story in Burroughs's Venus series (sometimes called the ""Carson Napier of Venus series""). Written in 1941, the piece remained unpublished until 1964, fourteen years after the author's death. Burroughs intended it to be the opening piece in a sequence of stories to be brought together later in book form, as he had done in the instance of the previous"
"in 1739 after a particularly severe winter. Designed by Richard Castle, it is 42 metres high and is composed of several arches, adorned by stone pineapples and eagles. The main avenue from the town is no longer accessible by vehicular traffic, which must enter the grounds from the roundabout off the M4. Celbridge Abbey (.) was the childhood (1688–1707) and later adult (1714–23) home of Bartholomew Van Homrigh's daughter Esther (1688–1723), the ill-starred lover of Dean Swift. The poem in which Swift fictionalised her as ""Vanessa"" ""Cadenus and Vanessa"" (1713) was written seven years before he visited her in Celbridge"
"Evelina Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World is a novel written by English author Fanny Burney and first published in 1778. Although published anonymously, its authorship was revealed by the poet George Huddesford in what Burney called a ""vile poem"". In this 3-volume epistolary novel, title character Evelina is the unacknowledged but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat, thus raised in rural seclusion until her 17th year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Hotwells, near Bristol, Evelina learns to navigate the complex layers"
"versions, is only in the Rome, Dulwich and Alnwick ones. Supporters of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship argue that the real author of Shakespeare's works, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, saw the Rome version at Titian's studio in Venice on his travels in Italy in 1575–76, and based his poem on it. This is regarded by some of them as a weighty piece of evidence supporting ""Oxfordian"" authorship. Summarizing the complicated history of the versions above, a possible timeline is: Venus and Adonis (Titian) A composition of Venus and Adonis by the Venetian Renaissance artist Titian has"
"Italian who immediately captures Alvina’s attention. Fleeing with him to Naples, she leaves her safe world behind and enters one of sexual awakening, desire, and fleeting freedom. The Lost Girl The Lost Girl is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1920. It was awarded the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the fiction category. Lawrence started it shortly after writing ""Women in Love"", and worked on it only sporadically until he completed it in 1920. Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a widowed Midlands draper, comes of age just as her father’s business is failing. In a"
"and she and Waldo marry. Floyd C. Gale of ""Galaxy Science Fiction"" in 1963 described ""The Cave Girl"" as ""a typical Burroughs adventure yarn"" and among the rarest of his books before it was reprinted. The copyright for this story has expired in the United States and, thus, now resides in the public domain there. The Cave Girl The Cave Girl is a lost world novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. Originally published in two separate stories, ""The Cave Girl"" begun in February 1913 and published by ""All-Story"" in July, August, and September 1913; and ""The Cave Man"" begun"
"Thumbelina ""Thumbelina"" () is a literary fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with ""The Naughty Boy"" and ""The Traveling Companion"" in the second installment of ""Fairy Tales Told for Children"". ""Thumbelina"" is about a tiny girl and her adventures with appearance- and marriage-minded toads, moles, and cockchafers. She successfully avoids their intentions before falling in love with a flower-fairy prince just her size. ""Thumbelina"" is chiefly Andersen's invention, though he did take inspiration from tales of miniature people such as ""Tom Thumb"". ""Thumbelina"" was"
"fantasy can be found in such nineteenth century works as some of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, Charles Dickens' ""Christmas Books"", and Lewis Carroll's Alice books. The first writer to specialize in the subgenre was ""F. Anstey"" in novels such as ""Vice Versa"" (1882), where magic disrupts Victorian society with humorous results. Anstey's work was popular enough to inspire several imitations, including E. Nesbit's light-hearted children's fantasies, ""The Phoenix and the Carpet"" (1904) and ""The Story of the Amulet"" (1906). The United States had several writers of comic fantasy, including James Branch Cabell, whose satirical fantasy ""Jurgen, A Comedy of"
"unrelated story. The Wizard of Venus ""The Wizard of Venus"" is a novella by Edgar Rice Burroughs, as well as the title of a collection in which it was later published together with an unrelated story. ""The Wizard of Venus"" is the final story in Burroughs's Venus series (sometimes called the ""Carson Napier of Venus series""). Written in 1941, the piece remained unpublished until 1964, fourteen years after the author's death. Burroughs intended it to be the opening piece in a sequence of stories to be brought together later in book form, as he had done in the instance of"
"states that later editors did not accept Grosart's view of the identity of ""H. A."". Henry Austin (poet) Henry Austin (17th century) was an English poet postulated by Alexander Balloch Grosart as author of ""The Scourge of Venus, or the Wanton Lady. With the Rare Birth of Adonis. The Second Impression, corrected and enlarged, by H. A."" (1614). Grosart's identification in the ""Dictionary of National Biography"" depended on a remark about ""Austin"" by Thomas Heywood. The modern ""Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"" notes that this identification rested on a confusion of works by Ovid (""The Scourge of Venus"" is taken"
"in the plate. The Little Girl Lost The Little Girl Lost is a 1794 poem published by William Blake in his collection ""Songs of Innocence and of Experience"". According to scholar, Grevel Lindop, this poem represents Blake's pattern of the transition between ""the spontaneous, imaginative Innocence of childhood"" to the ""complex and mature (but also more dangerous) adult state of Experience."" According to Lindop, the poem starts out with a prophecy from Blake during the first two stanzas. This prophecy is telling readers that ""our imperfect world will one day be redeemed and renewed by the God who created it."""
"tabby cat told him that Cicella was in the barrel. He let her out, put Grannizia in her place, and fled with her. Caradonia returned with wood, created a fire, and boiled water to scald Cicella to death. She poured it in the barrel. Grannizia died, and Caradonia opened the barrel, saw her own daughter, and drowned herself in the well. The Three Fairies ""The Three Fairies"" is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the ""Pentamerone"". It is Aarne-Thompson tale 480, the kind and the unkind girls, and appears to stem from an"