"Desperate Remedies Desperate Remedies is the second novel by Thomas Hardy, albeit the first to be published. It was released anonymously by Tinsley Brothers in 1871. In ""Desperate Remedies"" a young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry. Cytherea loves a young architect, Edward Springrove, but Miss Adclyffe's machinations, the discovery that Edward is already engaged to a woman whom he does not love, and the urgent need to support a sick brother drive Cytherea"
"the Lady"" would be too politically controversial and might damage Hardy's ability to publish in the future. So Hardy followed his advice and he did not try further to publish it. He subsequently destroyed the manuscript, but used some of the ideas in his later work. After he abandoned his first novel, Hardy wrote two new ones that he hoped would have more commercial appeal, ""Desperate Remedies"" (1871) and ""Under the Greenwood Tree"" (1872), both of which were published anonymously; it was while working on the latter that he met Emma Gifford, who would become his wife. In 1873 ""A"
"""The Napoleon Dynasty"" (2nd ed., 1855). He also wrote several novels: ""The Loves of an Apothecary"" (1854), ""The Path of Roses"" (1859) and (with his brother James) ""Under a Cloud"" (1860). To the second number of the ""Cornhill Magazine"" he contributed ""An Essay without End,"" and this led to an introduction to Thackeray. In 1862, when Thackeray resigned the editorship of the ""Cornhill"", Greenwood became joint editor with G. H. Lewes. In 1864 he was appointed sole editor, a post which he held until 1868. While at the ""Cornhill"" he wrote an article in which he suggested, to some extent,"
"songs. ""Mad John's Escape"" is a song written for a friend of Donovan's who escaped from a mental health centre. The song details Mad John's escape and subsequent adventures. ""Under the Greenwood Tree"" was originally written by William Shakespeare in As You Like It, and set to music by Donovan for the Royal National Theatre, who planned to use it in a stage production. At the end of the song, Donovan sings ""Will you, won't you... join the dance?"" in reference to the chorus of ""The Lobster Quadrille"" in Chapter X of Lewis Carroll's ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"". ""Epistle to"
"his compositions of incidental music for Shakespeare's ""Merchant of Venice"" and ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" were intrinsically more satisfying is not known. Serious works include ""La Belle Dame Sance Merci"", ""Pippa Passes"", ""Puncinello"", and ""Salute to Gustav Holst"" which was premiered at the Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts in 1936. During the War he worked on the staff of the BBC European Service as Assistant Music Supervisor. He died at Ditchling, aged 75. Many of his manuscripts are held in the archives of McMaster University. John D. H. Greenwood John Danforth Herman Greenwood (26 June 1889 – 15 April 1975),"
"Underwoods Underwoods is a collection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1887. It comprises two books, Book I with 38 poems in English, Book II with 16 poems in Scots. He says in the initial note that ""I am from the Lothians myself; it is there I heard the language spoken about my childhood; and it is in the drawling Lothian voice that I repeat it to myself."" The dedication is to ""a few out of many doctors who have brought me comfort and help."" He starts by saying that ""There are men and classes of men that"
"in 1837, he traveled to Cuba on the advice of doctors. He wrote for and edited the ""Christian Examiner"" throughout the 1820s and 1830s. His 1826 series, ""Letters on Missions,"" was especially noted as being controversial for its severity in tone. Greenwood's writings were also published in the ""Boston Journal of Natural History"" and ""The Token and Atlantic Souvenir"". He preached his last sermon on May 22, 1842, at a church in Salem, Massachusetts and died August 2, 1843, at the age of 46, due to his lingering illness. His sermons were published in 1844 in two volumes by his"
"from his novels (not even from ""Smith As Hero"" which spent time on the best-seller lists) and now with a family of four children, he needed to earn. He wrote screenplays (""Our Mother's House""; ""Work is a Four Letter Word""); television scripts for directors such as Karel Reisz and Ken Loach and a great number of important and memorable adaptations of classics for the stage (""The Lower Depths"", ""The Government Inspector"" (with Paul Scofield), ""Enemies"" (with a young Helen Mirren), ""The Forest"", ""A Child's Christmas in Wales"" (co-written with Adrian Mitchell), ""The Cherry Orchard"", ""Medea"", ""The Wind in the Willows"""
"Frederick Greenwood Frederick Greenwood (25 March 1830 – 14 December 1909) was an English journalist, editor, and man of letters. He completed Elizabeth Gaskell's novel ""Wives and Daughters"" after her death in 1865. Born in Kensington, London, he was the oldest of eleven children of James Caer Greenwood, a coach builder, and his wife, Mary Ann, née Fish. He and two brothers – James and Charles, gained reputations as journalists. Frederick started life in a printing house, but at an early age began to write in periodicals. In 1853 he contributed a sketch of Napoleon III to a volume called"
"During the Second World War Greenwood produced movies by Greenpark Productions Ltd for the British government, and served with the Royal Army Service Corps. During 1944 he published ""Something in my Heart"", and divorced Pearl. After the war he wrote the ""Trelooe"" trilogy – ""So Brief The Spring"" (1952), ""What Everybody Wants"" (1954) and ""Down By The Sea"" (1956) – and a few plays: ""The Cure For Love"" (1945, filmed 1950), Date of West End opening ""12 July 1945"" ""Too Clever for Love"" (1952) and ""Saturday Night at the Crown"" (1958). He also co-wrote the movie ""Chance of a Lifetime"""
"stand above the common herd: the soldier, the sailor and the shepherd not infrequently; the artist rarely; rarer still the clergyman; the physician almost as a rule. He is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization ..."" Underwoods Underwoods is a collection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1887. It comprises two books, Book I with 38 poems in English, Book II with 16 poems in Scots. He says in the initial note that ""I am from the Lothians myself; it is there I heard the language spoken about my childhood; and it is in the"
"are two series of collected prose writings, ""Greenwood Leaves"" (1849, 1851); ""Poems"" (1850); ""Haps and Mishaps of a Tour in Europe"" (1852); ""A Forest Tragedy"" (1856); ""A Record of Five Years"" (1867); ""New Life in New Lands"" (1873); ""Victoria, Queen of England"". This last was published, in 1883, by Anderson & Allen of New York, and Sampson, Low & Marston, London. Lippincott was connected as editor and contributor with various American magazines, as well as weekly and daily papers. Lippincott also wrote much for London journals, especially for ""All the Year Round"". For several years, she lived almost wholly in"
"in Douglas, Isle of Man on 13 September 1974 aged 70. Walter Greenwood Walter Greenwood (17 December 1903 – 13 September 1974) was an English novelist, best known for the socially influential novel ""Love on the Dole"" (1933). Greenwood was born at 56, Ellor Street, his father's house and hairdresser's shop in ""Hanky Park"", Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire. His parents belonged to the radical working classes. His father died when he was nine years old, and his mother provided for him by working as a waitress. Like many children he quit school at the age of 13 to work (as a"
"it was his ""The Tears of A Genius, occasioned by the Death of Dr Goldsmith"" (1774) which first caught the public's attention: written within a few hours of Goldsmith's death, it contained poetry written in imitation of Goldsmith's style and was published under Pratt's pseudonym of 'Courtney Melmoth'. Over the next six years he produced twelve further works as 'Courtney Melmoth' including ""An Apology for the Life and Writings of David Hume"" (1777) ;""Shenstone Green, or the New Paradise Lost"" (1779); ""Emma Corbett"" (1780) and ""Shadows of Shakespeare, a Monody on Death of Garrick"" (1779): lines from the latter are"
"Richard Jefferies John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. Jefferies's corpus of writings includes a diversity of genres and topics, including ""Bevis"" (1882), a classic children's book, and ""After London"" (1885), an early work of science fiction. For much of his adult life, he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the"
"first theme. The gaiety continues on into a final flourish at the end. The piece carries a dedication to Harriet Cohen. Green Ways (John Ireland) Green Ways is a set of three short atmospheric piano works composed by John Ireland in 1937; the individual titles are The Cherry Tree, Cypress and The Palm and May. They were written when the composer was 57, and are among the last pieces he wrote for piano. ""Green Ways"" sets out to depict in music quotations from A. E. Housman (with whom he had a close affinity), William Shakespeare and Thomas Nashe, and is"
"The Rose and the Yew Tree The Rose and the Yew Tree is a tragedy novel written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by William Heinemann Ltd in November 1948 and in the US by Farrar & Rinehart later in the same year. It is the fourth of six novels Christie published under the nom-de-plume Mary Westmacott. The title of the novel is taken from Section V of ""Little Gidding"" from T. S. Eliot's ""Four Quartets"". The full line, as quoted in the epigraph to the novel, is: Hugh Norreys, crippled in a road accident, watches from"
"Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are ""Treasure Island"", ""Kidnapped"", ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"", and ""A Child's Garden of Verses"". He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J."
"The Cure for Love (play) The Cure for Love is a comedy play by the British writer Walter Greenwood which premiered in 1945. Its West End run lasted for 219 performances at the Westminster Theatre between July 1945 and January 1946. Amongst the cast were Robert Donat, Renée Asherson (later replaced by Rene Ray), Charles Victor and Marjorie Rhodes. The play portrays the return of an easy-going soldier to his Lancashire hometown after the Second World War. He falls in love with a young woman boarding at his mother's house, but struggles to break away from his faithless and calculating"
"Forest but did not receive sufficient encouragement to go on with the work. By 1875 he was settled at Sandsend, near Whitby. Some years later he had migrated to Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire. He visited Lyndhurst in the New Forest in August 1889, and being in a weak state of health he remained there through the winter. He died on 1 April 1890, aged 59, and was buried in Lyndhurst cemetery. His first work was a pamphlet of poems called ""Robin Hood"" published in 1855. In 1860 he issued a novel in two volumes called ""The Cousin's Courtship"" with little success. Following"
"novels) was not a success and Hardy regained only £59, 12s., 6d. from his original £75. Despite this experience, Hardy returned to Tinsley with ""Under the Greenwood Tree"" (1872). Tinsley bought the copyright for £30, but again was unable to sell it. ""A Pair of Blue Eyes"" (1873) was yet another commercial failure; and later books by Hardy came out (more successfully) with other publishers. In old age, Tinsley recounted that he never had the offer of ""Far from the Madding Crowd"" (1874); but his assistant Edmund Downey remembered Tinsley telling him that Hardy had come to him detailing the"
"a heart attack at his home in Los Angeles. George Clifford Shedd George Clifford Shedd (1877 – January 8, 1937) was an early 20th-century American writer. Several of his novels were adapted into films. His novel ""The Incorrigible Dukane"" (1911) was made into a film starring John Barrymore in 1915, and ""In the Shadow of the Hills"" (1919) was adapted for the screen as ""Cold Steel"" (1921). Shedd was born in Ashland, Nebraska, the son of Hibbard H. Shedd, who served as Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska, and Katherine Lee Graves. He graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1900, and"
"failed, and in his later years he was reduced to making Aeolian harps, which he sold among his friends. With failing eyesight and his own reason threatened by depression, he died in great poverty on 19 August 1823. His collection of books and manuscripts, and his household effects, had to be auctioned to pay his debts and cover the funeral expenses. To assist in that fund-raising came the publication in that year of his drama, ""Hazlewood Hall"", and in the following year of ""The Remains of Robert Bloomfield"", which included writing for children, on which he had been working for"
"Down by the Greenwood Side (opera) Down by the Greenwood Side is a ""dramatic pastoral"" composed by Harrison Birtwistle to a text by Michael Nyman. It was first performed on 8 May 1969 at the Festival Pavilion, West Pier, Brighton. The text comes from two sources: a popular ballad called ""The Cruel Mother"", and passages from various mummers plays, the folk plays of the English countryside. The soprano, Mrs. Green, sings the ballad while the actors and mime perform the play. The two ingredients never meet; both are completely self-contained, involved only in themselves. But near the end, in the"
"Attachment"". Streaming audio The Petrified Forest The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American film directed by Archie Mayo and based on Robert E. Sherwood's 1935 Broadway drama of the same name. The motion picture stars Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart. The screenplay was written by Delmer Daves and Charles Kenyon, and adaptations were later performed on radio and television. In the midst of the Great Depression, Alan Squier (Howard), a failed British writer, now a disillusioned, penniless drifter, wanders into a somewhat frowzy roadside diner in the remote town of Black Mesa, Arizona, at the edge of the"
"feuding brothers, was published by Peter Davies in 1931. This was followed by the fantasy ""Summervale"" in 1935, published by Constable and Co. and recounting the metamorphosis of an unassuming suburban insurance broker into a dog. ""The Manewood Line"", a fictional account of the rise, decline and revival of Selsey's branch line and Kenward’s last novel for adults (described as ""A Romance"" on the fly-leaves of later books), was published by Stanley Paul in 1937. Kenward’s next book, ""The Roof-Tree"", can be classed loosely as a work on architecture and was first published in 1938: it was reissued in The"
"George Greenwood Sir Granville George Greenwood (3 January 1850 – 27 October 1928), usually known as George Greenwood or G. G. Greenwood, was a British lawyer, politician, cricketer, animal welfare reformer and energetic advocate of the Shakespeare authorship question. Born Granville George Greenwood, in Kensington, London, he was the second son of John Greenwood, Q. C. and Fanny Welch. Educated at Eton he was in the ""select"" for the Newcastle scholarship and then matriculated to Trinity College, Cambridge. As a foundation scholar, he took his degree with a first-class in the classical tripos in 1873. Having been called to the"
"matched the success of ""Love on the Dole"", he produced a succession of novels during the 1930s: ""His Worship The Major"" (1934), ""The Time Is Ripe"" (1935), ""Standing Room Only, or 'A Laugh In Every Line""' (1936), ""Cleft Stick"" (1937), ""Only Mugs Work"" (1938), ""The Secret Kingdom"" (1938) and ""How The Other Man Lives"" (1939). He also co-wrote a George Formby movie, ""No Limit"" (1935). While living in Polperro, Cornwall during 1938, Greenwood started a production company, Greenpark Productions Ltd, which trades as a movie archive. During 1941 ""Love on the Dole"" was made into a movie featuring Deborah Kerr."
"A. F. Cross Albert Francis Cross (1863–1940) wrote under the pen name of A. F. Cross. He was a noted poet, playwright, journalist and author and the founder of several theatres and newspapers in the English Midlands area. His most popular works include several books of verses and poetry, specifically ""Songs and Sonnets"", ""Virginia"" and ""Charnwood Poems"", inspired by a series of walks through Charnwood Forest. ""Charnwood Poems"" was published in 1928. He was also the author of several plays, including the musical comedy ""Dainty Diana"". Born in Moor Lane, Loughborough, on 9 May 1863, Cross began his career as"
"Christopher Isherwood Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an English-American novelist. His best-known works include ""The Berlin Stories"" (1935–39), two semi-autobiographical novellas inspired by Isherwood's time in Weimar Republic Germany. These enhanced his postwar reputation when they were adapted first into the play ""I Am a Camera"" (1951), then the 1955 film of the same name, ""I am a Camera""; much later (1966) into the bravura stage musical ""Cabaret"" which was acclaimed on Broadway, and Bob Fosse's inventive re-creation for the film ""Cabaret"" (1972). His novel ""A Single Man"" was published in 1964 and"
"Carl Rüedi Carl Rüedi (April 21 (or 23?), 1848 – June 17, 1901) was a Swiss pulmonologist and at his lifetime one of the best-known physicians in Graubünden. Rüedi rose to fame around the world after having treated the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson in the winters of 1880-81 and 1881-82. Stevenson praised Rüedi in the dedication of his poetry collection ""Underwoods"" (1887) as """"the good genius of the English in his frosty mountains"""". Carl Rüedi was the youngest of eight children of the Graubünden district doctor and pioneer of climatotherapy Lucius Rüedi and his wife Rahel (née Conrad). Yet"
"in magazines during the Second World War and a line from one of them, ""At the Lavender Lantern"" (referring to a café in Greenwich Village), inspired the name of a book Onions in the Stew. He died May 8, 1950 in Bay Pines, Florida. Charles Divine Charles Harding Divine (January 20, 1889 – May 8, 1950) was an American poet and playwright. He was a soldier in the First World War, and his first book of poems in 1918 was praised by reviewers, one of whom said he was one of the most important American poets of the day. Divine"
"He died on January 4, 1991 at the age of 81, survived by his wife, Sylvia (who died in 2006), two sons, Matthew and Paul, and a granddaughter, Shanna Claire. JAMES BOND FILMS Richard Maibaum Richard Maibaum (May 26, 1909 – January 4, 1991) was an American film producer, playwright and screenwriter best known for his screenplay adaptations of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. Among are the first anti-lynching play on Broadway, ""The Tree"" (1932); the first anti-Nazi play on Broadway, ""Birthright"" (1933); the first movie that dealt with the problem of medication abuse, ""Bigger Than Life"", written in 1955,"