Who was the author of 'Moll Flanders'?
"the Restoration, developed into a major art form. Daniel Defoe turned from journalism and writing criminal lives for the press to writing fictional criminal lives with """" and ""Moll Flanders."" The English novel has generally been seen as beginning with Daniel Defoe's ""Robinson Crusoe"" (1719) and ""Moll Flanders"" (1722), though John Bunyan's ""The Pilgrim's Progress"" (1678) and Aphra Behn's, ""Oroonoko"" (1688) are also contenders. Other major 18th-century British novelists are Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), author of the epistolary novels ""Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded"" (1740) and ""Clarissa"" (1747–48); Henry Fielding (1707–54), who wrote ""Joseph Andrews"" (1742) and ""The History of Tom Jones,"
"Dominic of Flanders Dominic of Flanders (, ) (ca. 1425–1479) was a French-Flemish Dominican philosopher and Scholastic author, known to have been a renowned Thomist. His commentaries on Aristotle and on Thomas Aquinas were frequently printed, the most famous being his commentary on Aristotle’s ""Metaphysics"". This ""Commentaria"" is commonly known to have been dedicated to Lorenzo de’ Medici. Little is known of Dominic's early life. He was born Baudouin Lottin, in the north of France near what is today the Belgian border, in either Merville or Merris, a few kilometers away from Bailleul. The political circumstances of the region at"
"In Flanders Fields ""In Flanders Fields"" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it. ""In Flanders Fields"" was first published on December 8 of that year in the London magazine ""Punch"". It is one of the most quoted"
"was erected at Guelph Civic Museum in Guelph in 2015. The street next to the cemetery where he is buried is named in his honour, although the street is called ""Rue Mac Crae"". John McCrae Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem ""In Flanders Fields"". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war. McCrae was born in McCrae"
"John McCrae Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem ""In Flanders Fields"". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war. McCrae was born in McCrae House in Guelph, Ontario to Lieutenant-Colonel David McCrae and Janet Simpson Eckford; he was the grandson of Scottish immigrants from Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire. His brother, Dr. Thomas McCrae, became professor of medicine at Johns"
"Albert Folens Albert Folens (1917-2003) was a Belgian-born publisher of educational materials in Ireland. His company, Folens, is a major publisher of educational materials. He was also the author ""Aiséirí Flóndrais"" ('The Resurrection of Flanders') a book in Irish discussing the fortunes and rise of Flanders and of the Dutch language vis-à-vis French in Flanders, with references to the situation of the Irish language. Folens was part of the Flemish Legion which was a nationalist Flemish party fighting for Flemish independence from French-dominated Belgium. During the second world war they were incorporated under the SS. At this point Folens and"
"McCrae House McCrae House, located in Guelph, Ontario, is the birthplace of John McCrae (b. 1872 – d. 1918), doctor, soldier and author of the famous First World War poem ""In Flanders Fields"". The house is a National Historic Site of Canada. This small limestone cottage, built in 1858, was owned by the McCrae family from 1870 to 1873. Other families occupied the house until 1966, when a group of Guelph citizens purchased the building with the intention of preserving it as a museum. This group formed the Lt. Col. John McCrae Birthplace Society and began to raise money for"
"its way into the Netherlands nevertheless, first of all in the person of Hiëronymus van Alphen (1746–1803), who today is best remembered for the verses he wrote for children. Van Alphen was an exponent of the more sentimental school along with Rhijnvis Feith (1753–1824), whose romances are steeped in Weltschmerz. In Hendrik Tollens (1780–1856) some the power of Bilderdijk and the sweetness of Feith were combined. Tollens wrote nationalistic romances and lyrics celebrating the great deeds of Dutch history and today is best known for his poem ""Wien Neêrlands Bloed"" (""To Those in Whom Dutch Blood Flows""), which was the"
"Site John McCrae Site John McCrae () is a World War I memorial site near Ypres, Belgium. It is named after the Canadian physician Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872–1918), author of the famous poem ""In Flanders Fields"", which he composed while serving at this site in 1915. Site John McCrae is located directly adjacent to the Ieperlee (Ypres Canal), about halfway in between the centre of Ypres and the centre of Boezinge, about 2.5 km from each. The memorial site is set in between Diksmuidseweg (N369) in the west and the Ieperlee in the east, and can - for"
"Henk Hofland Hendrik Johannes Adrianus ""Henk"" Hofland (; 20 July 1927 – 21 June 2016) was a Dutch journalist, commentator, essayist, and columnist. H.J.A. Hofland, as he is also commonly known, is often referred to as the éminence grise of Dutch journalism. In 1999 he was named Dutch ""Journalist of the century"" in a nationwide poll among his peers. He once described himself as belonging to the ""anarcho-liberal community"", though his political orientation is that of the secular center of society. Hofland was born in Rotterdam. As a twelve-year-old boy he witnessed the bombing of the city on 14 May"
"was irreconcilable, famously stating that ""In Belgium, there are the Walloons and the Flemish. There are no Belgians."" The 19th century saw a flourishing of Belgian literature in both French and Dutch languages. In Flanders, the Literary Romanticist movement, aided by a renewed interest in Belgium's medieval past, flourished under authors including Hendrik Conscience, who is credited as ""father of the Flemish novel"", and poets like Theodoor van Rijswijck. Conscience's most famous work, ""De Leeuw van Vlaanderen"" (""The Lion of Flanders"", 1838), portrayed a romantic and heavily embellished account of the County of Flanders' fight against the French in the"
"Felix Timmermans Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans (5 July 1886 – 24 January 1947) is a much translated author of Flanders. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Timmermans was born in the Belgian city of Lier, as the thirteenth of fourteen children. He died in Lier at age 60. He was an autodidact, and wrote plays, historical novels, religious works, and poems. His best-known book is ""Pallieter"" (1916). Timmermans also wrote under the pen-name ""Polleke van Mher"". He was a painter and drawer as well as an author. During the first years of the Second World"
"Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma (West Frisian form: Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma, pron. [ˈʧɔlɪŋ ˈhɪdəs ˈhɔlbǝtsma] (the r is silent); Dutch form: Tjalling Hiddes Halbertsma, pron. [ˈcalɪŋ ˈhɪdəs ˈhalbǝrtsma]) (Grou, January 21, 1792 – there, December 12, 1852), was Dutch Frisian writer, poet and merchant, and the least well-known of the three Brothers Halbertsma. During his life he won a certain amount of fame in and around Grou, for the poems and short stories he wrote, and also because of his success as a businessman. After his death some of his literary works were collected with those of his brothers"
"The Lion of Flanders (novel) The Lion of Flanders, or the Battle of the Golden Spurs () is a major novel first published in 1838 by the Belgian writer Hendrik Conscience (1812–83). An early example of the historical fiction genre, the ""Lion of Flanders"" focuses on the medieval Franco-Flemish War and the Battle of the Golden Spurs of 1302 in particular. It is written in Conscience's typical stylistic romanticism and has been described as the ""Flemish national epic"". Unusually for its time, the work was written in Dutch and it is considered one of the founding texts of Flemish literature."
"Maurice Maeterlinck Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (also called ""Comte (Count) Maeterlinck"" from 1932; in Belgium, in France; 29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949) was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 ""in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings"
"Karel van Mander Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander I (May 1548 – 2 September 1606) was a Flemish painter, poet, art historian and art theoretician, who established himself in the Dutch Republic in the latter part of his life. He is mainly remembered as a biographer of Early Netherlandish painters and Northern Renaissance artists in his ""Schilder-boeck"". As an artist and art theoretician he played a significant role in the spread and development of Northern Mannerism in the Dutch Republic. Most of the information about Karel van Mander's life is based on a brief and anonymous biographical"
"Karel Miry Karel Miry (14 August 1823 Ghent - 3 October 1889 Ghent) was a Belgian composer. He was one of the first Belgian composers to write operas to librettos in Dutch and is known as the composer of the music for De Vlaamse Leeuw, the national anthem of Flanders, for which Hippoliet van Peene wrote the lyrics. Karel Miry studied the violin with Jean Andries and harmony and composition with Martin Joseph Mengal at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent. He completed these studies at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where he was a student of François-Auguste Gevaert. Miry succeeded"
"of Willems have been written by Ferdinand Augustijn Snellaert (Ghent, 1847) and Max Rooses (Antwerp, 1874). (New International Encyclopedia). Also published by Rooses, Julius Vuylsteke, and Anton Bergmann is ""Jan Frans Willems"", (Ghent, 1893). Jan Frans Willems Jan Frans Willems (11 March 1793 – 24 June 1846), Flemish writer and ""father"" of the Flemish movement. Willems was born in the Belgian city of Boechout, while that was under French occupation. He started his career in the office of a notary in Antwerp. He devoted his leisure to literature, and in 1810 he gained a prize for poetry with an ode"
"Jean de Schelandre Jean de Schelandre (c.1585 – 18 October 1635), Seigneur de Saumazènes, was a French poet. He was born about 1585 near Verdun of a Calvinist family, and studied at the university of Paris. He then joined Turenne's army in the Netherlands, where he gained rapid advancement. He was the author of a tragedy, ""Tyr et Sidon, ou les funestes amours de Belcar et Méliane"", published in 1608 under the anagram-name ""Daniel d'Anchéres"", and reprinted with numerous changes in 1628 under the author's own name. It has been suggested that Schelandre was directly acquainted with Shakespearian drama, but"
"is ""De Vlaemsche Leeuw"" (The Lion of Flanders), which was very popular and became the official national anthem of the Flemish Community on 6 July 1973. Karel Miry Karel Miry (14 August 1823 Ghent - 3 October 1889 Ghent) was a Belgian composer. He was one of the first Belgian composers to write operas to librettos in Dutch and is known as the composer of the music for De Vlaamse Leeuw, the national anthem of Flanders, for which Hippoliet van Peene wrote the lyrics. Karel Miry studied the violin with Jean Andries and harmony and composition with Martin Joseph Mengal"
"hidden by trees, are the remains of former shelters that were used as emergency housing provided by the Belgian government for the local population during the First World War. These were constructed using pre-fabricated curved concrete elements, covered with metal sheets and then with earth. Site John McCrae Site John McCrae () is a World War I memorial site near Ypres, Belgium. It is named after the Canadian physician Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872–1918), author of the famous poem ""In Flanders Fields"", which he composed while serving at this site in 1915. Site John McCrae is located directly adjacent"
"the ranking of Western Frisian literary classics. Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma (West Frisian form: Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma, pron. [ˈʧɔlɪŋ ˈhɪdəs ˈhɔlbǝtsma] (the r is silent); Dutch form: Tjalling Hiddes Halbertsma, pron. [ˈcalɪŋ ˈhɪdəs ˈhalbǝrtsma]) (Grou, January 21, 1792 – there, December 12, 1852), was Dutch Frisian writer, poet and merchant, and the least well-known of the three Brothers Halbertsma. During his life he won a certain amount of fame in and around Grou, for the poems and short stories he wrote, and also because of his success as a businessman. After his death some of his literary works"
"Romain Rolland Romain Rolland (; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 ""as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings"". He is also noted for his correspondence with and influence on Sigmund Freud. Rolland was born in Clamecy, Nièvre into a family that had both wealthy townspeople and farmers in its lineage. Writing introspectively in his ""Voyage intérieur"" (1942),"
"A Dog of Flanders A Dog of Flanders is an 1872 novel by English author Marie Louise de la Ramée published with her pseudonym ""Ouida"". It is about a Flemish boy named Nello and his dog, Patrasche and is set in Antwerp. In Japan and Korea the novel has been a children's classic for decades and was adapted into several Japanese films and anime. Since the 1980s, the Belgian board of tourism caught on to the phenomenon and built two monuments honoring the story to please East-Asian tourists. There is a small statue of Nello and Patrasche at the Kapelstraat"
"Buysse, (1859-1932) novelist and playwright (""Het gezin van Paemel""). 82) Hans Memling, painter (""The Last Judgment"", ""St. Ursula Shrine""). 83) Jeanne Brabants, (1920-2014) ballet choreographer. Founder of the Royal Ballet of Flanders. 84) Tom Lanoye, (1958-) novelist (""Alles Moet Weg"", ""Kartonnen Dozen"", ""Het Goddelijke Monster""). 85) Rik Van Steenbergen, (1927-2003) cyclist. 86) Adolphe Quételet, (1796-1874) astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist. Developed the body mass index scale. 87) Gaston Roelants, (1937-) athlete. Olympic gold medal for 3000 m steeplechase (1964), European Championship 3000 m steeplechase (1962). 88) Jan van Ruusbroec, poet (""The Seven Steps of the Ladder of Spiritual Love"", ""The"
"Under Irish law, one cannot defame a person after their death and Mr. Folens was not alive at the time that this documentary was released. Folens family issued a press release denying that Albert Folens was ever involved with Nazi war crimes, though he was a member of the Flemish Legion. Albert Folens Albert Folens (1917-2003) was a Belgian-born publisher of educational materials in Ireland. His company, Folens, is a major publisher of educational materials. He was also the author ""Aiséirí Flóndrais"" ('The Resurrection of Flanders') a book in Irish discussing the fortunes and rise of Flanders and of the"
"Day remains popular in many areas of the Commonwealth of Nations, particularly Great Britain, Canada and South Africa and in the days leading up to ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand. Footnotes Bibliography In Flanders Fields ""In Flanders Fields"" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the"
"U"" (""H Hour"", 1936) and the long poem ""Awater"" (1934). A number of individual sonnets also rose to fame, particularly ""De Moeder de Vrouw"" (""The Mother the Woman/Wife"") commemorating the opening of a bridge over the river Waal near Zaltbommel. Joseph Brodsky considered the poem ""Awater"" one of the grandest poems of the 20th century. Martinus Nijhoff Martinus Nijhoff (20 April 1894 in The Hague – 26 January 1953 in The Hague) was a Dutch poet and essayist. He studied literature in Amsterdam and law in Utrecht. His debut was made in 1916 with his volume ""De wandelaar"" (""The wanderer"")."
"Velde added the figures and animals. Willem Schellinks Willem Schellinks (1627–1678), was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and etcher of landscapes and marine scenes and also a poet. Willem Schellinks was one of the most widely traveled Dutch artists of his time. He traveled along the Loire and the Seine in 1646, and between 1661 and 1665 he visited England, France, Italy, Malta, Germany and Switzerland, keeping a record of his travels in multiple landscapes and scenic views as well as a journal. Alternative spellings, Schellinger and Schellinx. Willem Schellinks was born into a family of artists in Amsterdam. He was"
"Louwrens Penning Louwrens Penning (Waardhuizen, 2 December 1854 - Utrecht, 12 January 1927) was a popular Dutch novelist. He was best known for his patriotic novels romanticising the Boer struggles with the British and Zulus in South Africa, even though at the time he wrote them, like Edgar Rice Burroughs and Karl May he had never travelled to the countries he described. Although viewed as having no literary value by literary historians they were wildly popular in the Netherlands and continued to be in demand into the 1960s. His best known work ""De held van Spionkop"" (1901) told the story"
"House contains both permanent and temporary exhibition space that interprets the life and times of John McCrae. Yearly themes are offered. Summer activities include Poppy Push, Canada Day, Teddy Bear Picnic, History Camp and special teas in the garden. The gardening volunteers have worked to create an award-winning garden reflecting the time period of the mid-to-late 19th century. McCrae House McCrae House, located in Guelph, Ontario, is the birthplace of John McCrae (b. 1872 – d. 1918), doctor, soldier and author of the famous First World War poem ""In Flanders Fields"". The house is a National Historic Site of Canada."
"Netherlands nevertheless, and first of all in the person of Hiëronymus van Alphen (1746–1803). Van Alphen is best remembered for the verses he wrote for children, which are still taught in kindergartens all over the country. Van Alphen was an exponent of the more sentimental school along with Rhijnvis Feith (1753–1824), whose romances are steeped in Weltschmerz. In Hendrik Tollens (1780–1856) some the power of Bilderdijk and the sweetness of Feith were combined. He is best known for celebrating the great deeds of Dutch history in a series of lyrical romances. Today, Tollens is best known for his poem ""Wien"
"gone a few yards when a six inch, high explosive canon shell burst. Lieutenant Helmer was killed instantly."" ""In Flanders Fields"" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, at which time he noted how poppies quickly grew around the graves of those who died at Ypres. The next day, he composed the poem while sitting in the back of an ambulance at"