In which Charles dickens novel does the character 'Esther Summerson' appear?
"For example, in his novel ""Bleak House"" Dickens mocks Mrs. Jellyby, who neglects her children for the natives of a fictional African country. The disjunction between Dickens' criticism of slavery and his crude caricatures of other races has also been noted by Patrick Brantlinger in his ""A Companion to the Victorian Novel"". He cites Dickens' description of an Irish colony in America's Catskill mountains a mess of pigs, pots, and dunghills. Dickens views them as a ""racially repellent"" group. Jane Smiley writing in the Penguin Lives bio of Dickens writes ""we should not interpret him as the kind of left-liberal"
"Summer (novel) Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton, which was published in 1917 by Charles Scribner's Sons. While most novels by Edith Wharton dealt with New York's upper-class society, this is one of two novels by Wharton that were set in New England. Its themes include social class, the role of women in society, destructive relationships, sexual awakening and the desire of its protagonist, named Charity Royall. The novel was rather controversial for its time and is one of the less famous among her novels because of its subject matter. At the start of the novel, young charity Royal"
"The position often features in fiction. One notable character is Ebeneezer Scrooge's charwoman Mrs. Dilber who appears in Charles Dickens's ""A Christmas Carol"". In 1926, Lord Dunsany's fantasy novel, ""The Charwoman's Shadow"" was published to good reviews. Another well-known fictional charwoman is Ada Harris, the central character in Paul Gallico's novel ""Mrs 'Arris goes to Paris"" and its three sequels. In the British radio comedy series ""It's That Man Again,"" Dorothy Summers played the part of Mrs Mopp, an office char whose catch phrase was ""Can I do you now, Sir?"" (i.e., ""May I clean your office now, Sir?"" but"
"Elizabeth Carter, and Some Fugitive Pieces, Never Before Published. Together with an Account of Her Life and Character, Drawn Up by Her Own Family"""" (1807). There, Chapone is quoted: Hester Chapone Hester Chapone, ""née"" Mulso (27 October 1727, Twywell, Northamptonshire – 1801), was an English writer of conduct books for women. She became associated with the London Bluestockings. The daughter of Thomas Mulso (1695–1763), a gentleman farmer, and his wife (died 1747/8), a daughter of Colonel Thomas, Hester wrote a romance at the age of nine, ""The Loves of Amoret and Melissa"", which earned her mother's disapproval. She was educated"
"respond to the various concepts through the author`s deductions and the extensions from Wharton`s own words. Summer (novel) Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton, which was published in 1917 by Charles Scribner's Sons. While most novels by Edith Wharton dealt with New York's upper-class society, this is one of two novels by Wharton that were set in New England. Its themes include social class, the role of women in society, destructive relationships, sexual awakening and the desire of its protagonist, named Charity Royall. The novel was rather controversial for its time and is one of the less famous among"
"starred Marilyn Hassett as Esther Greenwood, the protagonist and featured the tagline: ""Sometimes just being a woman is an act of courage."" In the film, Joan attempts to get Esther to agree to a suicide pact, an incident which is not in the book. Joan is implied to be a lesbian in Plath's novel. In the 1999 film, ""10 Things I Hate About You"", titular character Kat Stratford is seen reading ""The Bell Jar"". In July 2016, it was announced that Kirsten Dunst would be making her directorial debut with an adaptation of ""The Bell Jar"" starring Dakota Fanning as"
"cannot read. Another stroke of luck in her otherwise dreary life is her employment as general servant in West Kensington with Miss Rice, a novelist who is very sympathetic to her problems (""Esther could not but perceive the contrast between her own troublous life and the contented privacy of this slender little spinster's""). While working there, she makes the acquaintance of Fred Parsons, a Plymouth Brother and political agitator, who proposes to Esther at about the same time she bumps into William Latch again while on an errand for her mistress. Latch, who has amassed a small fortune betting on"
"Sexing the Cherry Sexing the Cherry (1989) is a novel by Jeanette Winterson. Set in 17th century London, ""Sexing the Cherry"" is about the journeys of a mother, known as The Dog Woman, and her protégé, Jordan. They journey in a space-time flux: across the seas to find exotic fruits such as bananas and pineapples; and across time, with glimpses of ""the present"" and references to Charles I of England and Oliver Cromwell. The mother’s physical appearance is somewhat ""grotesque"". She is a giant, wrapped in a skirt big enough to serve as a ship’s sail and strong enough to"
"hard times. Yet underneath, she has nerves of steel and a ruthlessly logical mind. In ""The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog"", even Amelia, who is used to women being underestimated, is stunned to read a letter account of Evelyn subduing a burglar in her home with a heavy parasol of the kind Amelia herself carries, and to hear Evelyn proposing a possible solution to the mystery that Amelia herself overlooked. Evelyn Emerson Evelyn Emerson is a fictional character from the Amelia Peabody series of historical mystery novels by Elizabeth Peters. She is the closest friend, and later sister-in-law, of"
"book whose immediate success, including Gladstone's approval of the novel in the ""Westminster Gazette"", brought him financial security. Continuously revised by Moore (1899, 1917, 1920, 1931), it is often regarded as his best novel. ""Esther Waters"" is dedicated to T. W. Rolleston. Esther Waters is born to hard-working parents who are Plymouth Brethren in Barnstaple. Her father's premature death prompts her mother to move to London and marry again, but Esther's stepfather turns out to be a hard-drinking bully and wife-beater who forces Esther, a natural beauty, to leave school and go out to work instead, thus greatly reducing her"
"first book featuring Charlotte and Emma Makepeace. ""The Summer Birds"" received a Carnegie Medal commendation in 1963. A second book, ""Emma in Winter"", set roughly two years later, with Emma as the main character followed in 1966. The main settings of both these books are a small village school in the South Downs in southern England, and Aviary Hall, the girls' home. ""Charlotte Sometimes"" followed in 1969, set slightly before the events of ""Emma in Winter"", which follows Charlotte's first term in a London boarding school. According to Farmer, Charlotte and Emma, who grow up in their Grandfather Elijah's house,"
"Arm and the Darkness"" (1943) also deals with this period in France, while Hilda Lewis' ""Wife to Great Buckingham"" (1959) goes so far as to make Buckingham's love for the French queen the main cause of his undoing. The Duke also figures in historical romances like Evelyn Anthony's ""Charles, The King"" (1963) and Bertrice Small's ""Darling Jasmine"" (2007), although the main focus there is on other protagonists. In Philippa Gregory's ""Earthly Joys"" (1998), which has as its subject the famous gardener John Tradescant the elder; the bewitching Duke appears halfway through the novel as the object of Tradescant's love. Another"
"get financing for a film production of the story; this plot point is also included in the 2006 three-part BBC Two serial of the same name, adapted for television by Andrew Davies. In the novel ""In a Summer Season"" by Elizabeth Taylor (novelist), the character of Kate Heron fondly recalls reading ""The Spoils of Poynton"" with her late husband and friends Charles and Dorothea. They called Lady Asperley, a mutual friend, ""The Spoils of Poynton"" because her obsession with objects reminded them of Mrs. Gereth. The Spoils of Poynton The Spoils of Poynton is a novel by Henry James, first"
"Her deep belief in God also appears in her poems ""In Diem Natalem"" and ""Thoughts at Midnight"" (also known as ""A Night Piece""). The novelist Samuel Richardson included Carter's poem ""Ode to Wisdom"" in the text of his novel ""Clarissa"" (1747–48) without ascribing it to her. It was later published in a corrected form the ""Gentleman's Magazine"" and Carter received an apology from Richardson. Elizabeth Gaskell, the 19th-century novelist, refers to Carter as an epistolatory model, bracketing her in ""Cranford"" with Hester Chapone, a self-taught Bluestocking. Virginia Woolf saw her as a feminist precursor – urging ""homage to the robust"
"British Summertime (novel) British Summertime is a science fantasy novel by Paul Cornell, first published by Gollancz in 2002. It is Cornell's second (non-tie-in) novel to be published. It is notable for its use of Christian and Gnostic themes; realistic contemporary settings, principally around Bath, Somerset; and complex exploration of time travel. Alison Parmeter, a 20-year-old woman living in Bath in 2000, has a near-supernatural power to ""read"" situations and make deductions based on small clues. She dreams the experiences of Judas Iscariot, and has fears of the ""end of the world"" since her friend Fran has returned from a"
"in William Shakespeare's play ""Richard III"", which portrays him as a man openly allying with Richard III in his schemes—until he is ordered to kill the Princes in the Tower. Buckingham is depicted as a supporting character in Philippa Gregory's 2009 historical novel ""The White Queen"" (2009). He is depicted as the murderer of the Princes in the Tower in Sharon Penman's 1982 debut novel ""The Sunne in Splendour"". He is the major character and storyteller in Isolde Martyn's historical novel ""The Devil in Ermine"" (2013), which deals with the events of 1483. He is a central character in Susan"
"""Summer Lightning"" (1929). The seventh concerns Bobbie Wickham, an acquaintance and sometime fiancée of Bertie Wooster, and the last five are narrated by Mr Mulliner. Several of the Blandings shorts from this collection were adapted for television by the BBC, broadcast in February and March 1967 in six half-hour episodes. They starred Ralph Richardson as Lord Emsworth, Derek Nimmo as Freddie Threepwood, Meriel Forbes as Lady Constance, and Stanley Holloway as Beach. Unfortunately the master tapes of all but the first part (""Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend""), were wiped, and no known copies exist. Three of the stories featured"
"Grasshopper a ready source of information."" According to his notes, Wodehouse considered having ""someone landing B with the racetrack cat"" in ""Jeeves in the Offing"" (1960). Ultimately, the idea was not included in that novel, but became a major part of the plot of ""Aunts Aren't Gentlemen"". Wodehouse's notes suggest that he initially wrote the novel's basic action and dialogue, then added humorous lines and quotations later. The Briscoe family and the town of Maiden Eggesford that feature in this novel had appeared previously in the Drones Club short story ""Tried in the Furnace"" (1935). Angelica Briscoe, who is the"
"Esther Drummond Esther Drummond is a fictional character in the science fiction series ""Torchwood"", portrayed by American actress Alexa Havins. Havins is one of several American actors to join ""Torchwood"" in its fourth series, """", which was co-produced by ""Torchwood""s original British network BBC1 and the American premium television network Starz. The character appears in every episode of the fourth series in addition to a prequel novel, ""The Men Who Sold the World"". Within the series narrative, Esther is a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) watch analyst who becomes aware of the defunct British Torchwood Institute on ""Miracle Day"", when it"
"Summerland (novel) Summerland is a 2002 fantasy young adult novel by American writer Michael Chabon. It is about young children who save the world from destruction by playing baseball, the central theme and symbol throughout the novel. ""Summerland"" weaves elements of a World Series, parallel-universe road trip, and a hero's odyssey. The book received mixed reviews; ""The New York Times"" called it ""bewilderingly busy"" and likened it to ""the novelization of an animated action film"". The story begins on a small island off the coast of Washington called Clam Island. The central character, Ethan Feld, is on one of the"
"the novel is devoted to subsidiary characters and the resolution of this plot. British Summertime (novel) British Summertime is a science fantasy novel by Paul Cornell, first published by Gollancz in 2002. It is Cornell's second (non-tie-in) novel to be published. It is notable for its use of Christian and Gnostic themes; realistic contemporary settings, principally around Bath, Somerset; and complex exploration of time travel. Alison Parmeter, a 20-year-old woman living in Bath in 2000, has a near-supernatural power to ""read"" situations and make deductions based on small clues. She dreams the experiences of Judas Iscariot, and has fears of"
"came from a line in the poem ""Marmion"" by Browne's favourite author, Sir Walter Scott. In 1888 ""Robbery Under Arms"" appeared in three volumes and its merits were immediately recognised. Several editions were printed before the close of the century. At the beginning of this novel the narrator, Dick Marston, is awaiting execution for crimes committed whilst he was a bushranger. He goes on to tell the story of his life and loves and his association with the notorious Captain Starlight. Some of the events in the book are based on actual incidents carried out by contemporary bushrangers like Daniel"
"in my Heart"" by Barbara Cartland. Appears in Alexander Lernet-Holenia's novel ""Mayerling"" (1960). She appears in a cameo in the short story ""The Road to Charing Cross"" in the book ""Flashman and the Tiger"" by George MacDonald Fraser (1999). She dances with the anti-hero, Harry Flashman at a ball at the end of the story, in which Flashman has helped prevent her husband the Emperor from being assassinated. Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Clemens) wrote about the assassination of Empress of Austria in an article entitled ""The Memorable Assassination,"" which he did not submit for publication. The Empress haunts a deadly"
"A Summer Bird-Cage A Summer Bird-Cage is the 1963 debut novel by Margaret Drabble published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The title of the novel is taken from a quotation from the play ""The White Devil"" by John Webster: ‘""Tis just like a summer bird-cage in a garden: the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out."" The novel centres on two characters who are sisters, Sarah and Louise. At the beginning of the story Sarah (who has recently graduated from Oxford University) has"
"children. A second book, ""Emma in Winter"", set roughly one and a half years later, with Emma as the main character, followed in 1966. ""Charlotte Sometimes"" followed in 1969, set slightly before the events of ""Emma in Winter"", which follows Charlotte's first term at boarding school. The Summer Birds The Summer Birds is a children's novel by British writer Penelope Farmer, published in 1962 by Chatto & Windus, and receiving a Carnegie Medal commendation. It is the first of three books featuring the Makepeace sisters, Charlotte and Emma, These three books are sometimes known as the ""Aviary Hall"" books. At"
"Farmer took one story originally intended for ""The China People"", but which proved too long to include, writing, ""It was too big an idea, too bony as a short story."" This was rewritten as the first chapter of ""The Summer Birds"" (1962), her first book featuring Charlotte and Emma Makepeace. The main settings of the book are a small village school in the South Downs in southern England, and Aviary Hall, the girls' home. According to Farmer, Charlotte and Emma, who grow up in their Grandfather Elijah's house, were originally based on her mother and her mother's sister as children,"
"viewers voted Esther as the character most suitable for a lifelong best friend. A reporter from the ""Huddersfield Daily Examiner"" said that the ""Company"" magazine episodes were ""a big week"" for Esther. While a ""Liverpool Echo"" critic bemoaned Esther's ""harsh words"" resulting in Jack's heart attack, noting that the character had been through worse such as brankruptcy and prison time. ""All About Soap"" journalist Kerry Barrett said viewers should ""watch out"" for Franks amongst other cast members, who she felt ""all act their socks off"" during the Enjoy The Ride storyline. Esther Bloom Esther Bloom is a fictional character from"
"Alice Elizabeth Burton Alice Elizabeth Burton or Aitken (born 1908) was a British-Canadian novelist and popular historian. Born in Cairo, she grew up in Windsor, Ontario. She later studied privately in Rome. In the 1940s she wrote comic fantasy novels under the pseudonym Susan Alice Kerby. In ""Miss Carter and the Ifrit"" (1945), a Muslim spirit helped a spinster to find love during the Second World War. In ""Mr Kronion"" (1949), a Greek god defended English village life. From 1945 to 1965 she was the London correspondent of a Canadian daily, the ""Windsor Star"". Changing her surname by deed poll"
"But, in the middle of her first term, she discovers how lonely she was as an only child, and starts to behave. The second main character is her best friend Joan Townsend, who does her best to get Elizabeth to behave. Also, in the second book, ""The Naughtiest Girl Again"", she makes two enemies (Robert Jones and Kathleen Peters) but then becomes great friends with them later on; while the third book ""The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor"", is as much about fellow pupils Julian and Arabella as it is about her. The titles added by Anne Digby, at the"
"as well. ""The Hum and the Shiver"" by Alex Bledsoe includes references to a lost version of the painting. The painting and the artist are also referenced in Elizabeth Hand's novel ""Mortal Love"". The British fantasy writer Angela Carter wrote ""Come unto these Yellow Sands"", a radio-play based on Dadd's life. The full name of the eccentric character Mr Dick in ""David Copperfield"" by Charles Dickens is Richard Babley, which echoes the name of Dickens' contemporary Richard Dadd. Canadian author R.J. Anderson acknowledges Dadd as the basis of her fictional painter Alfred Wrenfield, who figures prominently in her young adult"
"Love"", for Lady Caroline Bury in Graham Greene's ""It's a Battlefield"", and for Lady Sybilline Quarrell in Alan Bennett's ""Forty Years On"". ""The Coming Back"" (1933), another novel which portrays her, was written by Constance Malleson, one of Ottoline's many rivals for the affection of Bertrand Russell. Some critics consider her the inspiration for Lawrence's Lady Chatterley. Huxley's ""roman à clef"", ""Crome Yellow"" depicts the life at a thinly-veiled Garsington, with a caricature of Lady Ottoline Morrell for which she never forgave him. ""In Confidence"" a short story by Katherine Mansfield portrays the ""wits of Garsington"" some four years in"
"2018 at the age of 83. The title of her first book, ""Maisie Comes to Morningside"" (1984), was inspired by the American crime writer Chester Himes'book ""Cotton Comes to Harlem"" (1965). Maisie Mackenzie, the heroine of Paterson's series of children's books, wears a kilt and Fair Isle jumper and lives in Morningside, a suburb of Edinburgh. Maisie is a brave, adventurous kitten exploring a world that ultimately reinforces the good things in life such as friendship, food, fun, community and football. The wit and finely tuned social observation engages adults as much as children. Maisie's world is almost entirely populated"
"she meets Peter Rowne – an even more disabled, even more intelligent boy slightly older than her, Karen – a severely learning-disabled 'frienemy', and Tom – a docile and courageous, though sometimes invasive young boy with Down syndrome, who becomes her lifelong ally and protector. At the age of eleven, Esther takes up residence with her father, and finally manages to communicate her intelligence to him with Tom's help (specialists had emphatically cautioned her father and able-bodied carers not to see intelligence that wasn't there). She is subsequently sent off to Netherton – an adapted school for highly gifted disabled"