'Mrs. Bedwin', 'Noah Claypoe' and 'Rose Maylie' are all characters in which Dickens novel?
"to the Jewish people. Dickens had described her husband at the time of the sale as a ""Jewish moneylender"", though also someone he came to know as an honest gentleman. Dickens protested that he was merely being factual about the realities of street crime, showing criminals in their ""squalid misery"", yet he took Mrs Davis's complaint seriously. He halted the printing of ""Oliver Twist"", and changed the text for the parts of the book that had not been set, which is why Fagin is called ""the Jew"" 257 times in the first 38 chapters, but barely at all in the"
"The third novel in the series, ""The Wild Rose"", which explores Willa and Seamie's story, follows the characters from London on the verge of World War I to Arabia in 1918. Her second novel, ""A Northern Light"", is Donnelly's biggest success to date. It is based on the infamous murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the Adirondack Mountains in 1906 - which had been the basis for Theodore Dreiser's epic ""An American Tragedy"" and its adaptation, the 1951 film ""A Place in the Sun"". In 2004, ""A Northern Light"" won the Carnegie Medal for children's and young-adult books"
"Rose Macaulay Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, (1 August 1881 – 30 October 1958) was an English writer, most noted for her award-winning novel ""The Towers of Trebizond"", about a small Anglo-Catholic group crossing Turkey by camel. The story is seen as a spiritual autobiography, reflecting her own changing and conflicting beliefs. Macaulay’s novels were partly influenced by Virginia Woolf; she also wrote biographies and travelogues. Macaulay was born in Rugby, Warwickshire the daughter of George Campbell Macaulay, a Classical scholar, and his wife, Grace Mary (née Conybeare). Her father was descended in the male-line directly from the Macaulay family of"
"Maisie Dobbs (novel) Maisie Dobbs is a mystery by Jacqueline Winspear published in 2003. Set in England between 1910 and 1929, it features the title character Maisie Dobbs, a private investigator. Generally well received by critics, mostly because of Maisie's quirky character, the novel was nominated for several awards and received the 2003 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. It is the first in the Maisie Dobbs series. Maisie becomes a maid at the Belgravia Mansion of Lady Rowan Compton in 1910 at thirteen years old, after her mother dies, and she must help her father make ends meet. Soon"
"next novel ""Lorna Doone"". Blackmore experienced some editorial meddling when writing the novel. He would later write to a friend that: """"Cradock Nowell"" was spoiled by ""Macmillan's Magazine"". I was repeatedly interfered with, and never left to my own course."" He would later revise and release a new edition of the novel in 1873. The story introduces twin brothers, Cradock and Clayton Nowell, whose nurse forgets which is the elder, the rosette by which she had distinguished them having fallen to the ground. She settles it to her own satisfaction, and the boys grow up under the care of their"
"staying and stares up at her window at night. She is frightened, recognizes him, and tells him to see her in the city. The next day they finally admit their feelings to each other and agree to marry. Mrs. Althorpe, Francis Carlton, Miss Carlton, Mr. Curling, Mr. Ellis, Achsa Fielding, Eliza Hadwin, Philip Hadwin, Susan Hadwin, William Hadwin, Mrs. Hadwin, Betty Lawrence, Clemeza Lodi, Vincentio Lodi, Fannie Maurice, Arthur Mervyn, Sawney Mervyn, Dr. Stevens, Walter Thetford, Lucy Villars, Wallace, Capt. Amos Watson, Thomas Welbeck, Mrs. Wentworth, Ephraim Williams, Wortley, Caleb, Clavering, Colvill, Estwick, Jamieson, Medlicote Arthur Mervyn—The novel's protagonist. His"
"of Aunt Dot is based on Rose Macaulay's friend Dorothy L. Sayers, and that Father Hugh Chantry-Pigg has elements of Frs. Patrick McLaughlin, Gilbert Shaw and Gerard Irvine. The book was described in ""The New York Times"": ""Fantasy, farce, high comedy, lively travel material, delicious japes at many aspects of the frenzied modern world, and a succession of illuminating thoughts about love, sex, life, organized churches and religion are all tossed together with enchanting results."" The Towers of Trebizond The Towers of Trebizond is a novel by Rose Macaulay (1881–1958). Published in 1956, it was the last of her novels,"
"Cradock Nowell Cradock Nowell: a tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, it follows the fortunes of Cradock Nowell who is thrown out of his family home by his father following the suspicious death of Cradock's twin brother Clayton. It was Blackmore's second novel, and the novel he wrote prior to his most famous work ""Lorna Doone"". ""Cradock Nowell"" was Blackmore's second novel, following the publication of ""Clara Vaughan"" in 1864. Blackmore adopted the name ""Cradock Nowell"" from a former owner of Nottage"
"George Peele, Thomas Preston, Robert Wilson, and one Richard Bower. No convincing case has been made for any single candidate. ""Clyomon and Clamydes"" is thought to have had an influence on several of Shakespeare's plays. Most notably, Rosalind in ""As You Like It"" disguises herself in male clothing and flees courtly life for residence among simple shepherds—just as Neronis does in her play. In ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", the playlet of the mechanicals in Act V bears a resemblance with ""Clyomon and Clamydes"", though in this case the resemblance is clearly in a spirit of parody. And the late romance"
"Other Rhyming Stories"" 1991 Omnibus containing The Little Red Bus, Cluck the Little Black Hen, Plum Pie, The Little Peg Doll, No Hat!, and The New Bed Autobiography: These two were also published in an omnibus edition titled ""Early Days"". Others she has written: Miss Read Dora Jessie Saint MBE (17 April 1913 – 7 April 2012), née Shafe, best known by the pen name Miss Read, was an English novelist, by profession a schoolmistress. Her pseudonym was derived from her mother's maiden name. She is best known for two series of novels set in the British countryside – the"
"The Tea Rose The Tea Rose is a historical fiction novel by Jennifer Donnelly. It is the first book of a trilogy about London's East End at the turn of the 19th century. It was first published October 1, 2002 by Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press. In London in 1888, 17-year-old Fiona Finnegan, daughter of Irish immigrants Paddy and Kate, works under William Burton, owner and founder of Burton Tea. Paddy works as a docker in Whitechapel and is later called upon to lead the dockers to support labour unions. Fiona and her childhood sweetheart, Joe"
"The Crimson Patch The Crimson Patch, first published in 1936, is a detective story by Phoebe Atwood Taylor which features her series detective Asey Mayo, the ""Codfish Sherlock"". This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit. Mr. Myles Witherall, retired New Englander, decides on a whim to take an inexpensive tourist bus to the little town of Skaket, and thereby gets involved in the movements of an escaped killer. Meanwhile, a young married couple of artistic antecedents find that Skaket's inhabitants have turned violently against them, just before they find the body of Rosalie Ray, radio"
"Bondage by W Somerset Maugham (1915) 45. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920) 46. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922) 47. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922) 48. A Passage to India by EM Forster (1924) 49. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925) 50. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925) 51. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (1925) 52. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926) 53. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926) 54. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1929) 55. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930) 56. Brave New World by Aldous"
"later described by Cecil Day-Lewis, author of gentleman detective Nigel Strangeways, as an ""unspeakable public school bully"". The novel ""Bulldog Drummond"" begins when Drummond places an advertisement in a newspaper looking for adventure to lift the ennui of his life in post-war London. The response comes from Phyllis Benton, who is concerned for the health and well-being of her father, over whom Henry Lakington and Carl Peterson have a hold. At the end of the novel Drummond and Phyllis marry, and remain married throughout the course of the McNeile and Fairlie series of books, in contrast to the films, which"
"was attacked in Rose Alley near his home in Covent Garden by thugs hired by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, with whom he had a long-standing conflict. Dryden's greatest achievements were in satiric verse: the mock-heroic ""Mac Flecknoe"", a more personal product of his laureate years, was a lampoon circulated in manuscript and an attack on the playwright Thomas Shadwell. Dryden's main goal in the work is to ""satirize Shadwell, ostensibly for his offenses against literature but more immediately we may suppose for his habitual badgering of him on the stage and in print."" It is not a belittling"
"Winter Rose (novel) Winter Rose is a 1996 fantasy novel by American writer Patricia A. McKillip. It was nominated for the 1996 Nebula Award and 1997 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and was a finalist for the 1997 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. In 2006, McKillip published its sequel, ""Solstice Wood"". When Rois Melior, the wild daughter of a widowed father, first sees Corbet Lynn step from the woods, she is attracted to him despite a sense that he is not what he appears to be. As he rebuilds his family's decaying estate, Rose and her sister Laurel"
"1958, aged 77. Fiction: Non-fiction: Rose Macaulay Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, (1 August 1881 – 30 October 1958) was an English writer, most noted for her award-winning novel ""The Towers of Trebizond"", about a small Anglo-Catholic group crossing Turkey by camel. The story is seen as a spiritual autobiography, reflecting her own changing and conflicting beliefs. Macaulay’s novels were partly influenced by Virginia Woolf; she also wrote biographies and travelogues. Macaulay was born in Rugby, Warwickshire the daughter of George Campbell Macaulay, a Classical scholar, and his wife, Grace Mary (née Conybeare). Her father was descended in the male-line directly"
"Rose"", and has seventeen such novels in print, including one contemporary romance. She is best known for her award-winning romance trilogies, one set in Scotland: ""The Pride of Lions"", ""The Blood of Roses"", and ""Midnight Honor"". The other is set in Medieval England and deals with her own interpretation of the Robin Hood legend: ""Through a Dark Mist"", ""In the Shadow of Midnight"", and ""The Last Arrow"". She is currently working on the fourth book of her pirate wolf saga that began with ""Across A Moonlit Sea"" ""The Iron Rose"" and ""The Following Sea"" A complete list of books can"
"Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962) 82. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962) 83. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964) 84. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966) 85. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966) 86. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth (1969) 87. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971) 88. Rabbit Redux by John Updike (1971) 89. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977) 90. A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul (1979) 91. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981) 92. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1981) 93. Money: A Suicide Note by Martin"
"Ruth Nelson, and James Neill as Judge Hollis. Sandy (novel) Sandy is the third book written by Alice Hegan Rice, and was the second best-selling novel in the United States in 1905. It was originally published in serial form in ""The Century Magazine"" from December 1904 through May 1905, and first appeared in novel form in April 1905. The novel is based on the boyhood stories of S. S. McClure, publisher of ""McClure's"" magazine, and his upbringing in Ireland and early struggles in the United States. A contemporary synopsis of the novel's plot describes it as follows: This is the"
"does not love him, he convinces her to abandon her family and run away with him. As she is preparing to depart, she is confronted by Starlight, an Indian woman who works as a servant on the ranch, who reminds Wilton of the needs of her child. She spurns Pelham and returns to her family. Eventually, Chetwin forgives her and devotes more of his time to her. Pelham may have been killed by Starlight, although his ultimate fate is left unclear. Annie Sophie Cory, writing as Victoria Cross, was a popular but controversial British New Woman novelist. Adultery and female"
"that she was Rose's sister, mother, daughter, lover, and best friend in various former lives. Rose and the subway driver dance; they later have two daughters together (""Midnight""). The four story-tellers then tell the story of how Rose took revenge on her sister and how Pearl's breastbone was turned into a fiddle (""The Wind & Rain""). The piece draws on numerous sources of inspiration, including ""Arabian Nights"", ""Matsukaze"" (a Japanese Noh drama), ""Grimms' Fairy Tales"", Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”, James Joyce's ""Ulysses"", Rosemary Timperley's ""Harry,"" Thelonious Monk’s “Ruby, My Dear,” “Epistrophy,” and “’Round Midnight,”"
"There Were None"" (from ""Ten Little Indians""), ""One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"" (from ""One, Two, Buckle My Shoe""), ""Five Little Pigs"" (from ""This Little Piggy""), ""Crooked House"" (from ""There Was a Crooked Man""), ""A Pocket Full of Rye"" (from ""Sing a Song of Sixpence""), ""Hickory Dickory Dock"" (from ""Hickory Dickory Dock""), and ""Three Blind Mice"" (from ""Three Blind Mice""). Similarly, the novel Mrs McGinty's Dead is named after a children's game that is explained in the course of the novel. Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work, particularly before the end of the Second World War (when"
"Billy Threemonger - Two ""redneck"" brothers who bully Rob in school and on the bus. Mrs. Bailey - The wife of Mr. Bailey, also Sistine's mom. She babies Sistine and forces her to wear dresses. Mr. Phelmer - Principal of Rob's school who views Rob as a nuisance, neglects him, and feels uncomfortable talking to him. He later tells Rob that he cannot come to school in case a disease in his legs is contagious. The Tiger Rising The Tiger Rising is a 2001 children's book written by Newbery Medal winning author Kate DiCamillo. It is about a 12-year-old named"
"The Towers of Trebizond The Towers of Trebizond is a novel by Rose Macaulay (1881–1958). Published in 1956, it was the last of her novels, and the most successful. It was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in the year of its publication. The book is partly autobiographical. It follows the adventures of a group of people – the narrator Laurie, the eccentric Dorothea ffoulkes-Corbett (otherwise Aunt Dot), her High Anglican clergyman friend Father Hugh Chantry-Pigg (who keeps his collection of sacred relics in his pockets) – travelling from Istanbul (or Constantinople as Fr. Chantry-Pigg would have"
"Bed of Roses (novel) Bed of Roses is the second book of the Bride Quartet series, written by Nora Roberts. It focuses around the character of florist Emmaline ""Emma"" Grant. Nora Roberts is a prolific author of romance and futuristic suspense novels. From 1979 through 2008, almost 200 of her novels were published. On average, she completes a book every 45 days. She does not outline the novels in advance or create character biographies, preferring to develop the plot as she goes. According to ""Publishers Weekly"", three of the top-ten bestselling mass market paperbacks of 2008 were Roberts novels. Her"
"Stories."" Grace Hibbard, a California poetess, was the author ""California Violets."" Rose Hartwick Thorpe, author of ""Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight"", had a note from Queen Victoria telling her that she had committed that poem to memory. Anna Morrison Reed, editor of the ""Northern Crown"", was orn in the California mines, and was a constant contributor to literature, both prose and poetry. She published one volume of verse through the Bancrofts. Lillian Hinman Shuey, was the author of ""California Sunshine"",""Among the Redwoods,"" ""David of Juniper Gulch,"" ""Don Luis' Wife,"" and ""The Humboldt Lily."" Another poetess was Mary Cameron Benjamin. Kate"
"May Alcott (1868-9) 21. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871-2) 22. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (1875) 23. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884/5) 24. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) 25. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (1889) 26. The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (1890) 27. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1891) 28. New Grub Street by George Gissing (1891) 29. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895) 30. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1895) 31. Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) 32."
"on Rose's father, Mr Grant, who encourages him to make acquaintance with a young widow. When he does, he is astonished at the uncanny resemblance between the woman, whose name is Nancy Whitmore, and Rose. He discovers that Nancy is the illegitimate daughter of Mr Grant, who sent Charley to her thinking he might console her for the death of her husband, an RAF pilot killed in action. The rest of the novel describes the complex and troubled relation between Charley and Nancy, as it unfolds against the background of a war-torn Britain. Green had his own opinion of what"
"At the Villa Rose (novel) At the Villa Rose is a 1910 detective novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason featuring his character Inspector Hanaud. In Aix les Bains during the early 20th century, Celia Harland, a beautiful young English girl down on her luck is befriended by a rich widow, Madame Dauvray, an addict of ""spiritualism"", and stages seances for her benefactrix, while knowing full well that the supposed manifestations from the spirit world are entirely bogus. This set-up supplies the opportunity for a criminal gang master-minded by Madame Dauvray's maid, with their eyes on the widow's jewellery collection, to"
"The Red Mirage The Red Mirage is a 1913 novel by Ida Alexa Ross Wylie. It was her third novel, and was immensely popular, reportedly making her a ""darling of the media."" It was adapted multiple times into motion pictures, including versions in 1915 and 1928, respectively under the titles ""The Unknown"" and ""The Foreign Legion."" The action is set predominantly in the town of Sidi Bel Abbès, and most of the male characters are members of the French Foreign Legion. The plot primarily concerns the romantic troubles caused by the character Sylvia Omney when she chooses to marry Captain"
"in 1884 by a more ambitious, though slight, study of modern life, ""Miss Bretherton"", the story of an actress. Ward's novels contained strong religious subject matter relevant to Victorian values she herself practised. Her popularity spread beyond Great Britain to the United States. Her book ""Lady Rose's Daughter"" was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1903, as was ""The Marriage of William Ashe"" in 1905. Ward's most popular novel by far was the religious ""novel with a purpose"" ""Robert Elsmere"", which portrayed the emotional conflict between the young pastor Elsmere and his wife, whose over-narrow orthodoxy brings her"
"The Rainbow The Rainbow is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1915. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire, particularly focusing on the individual's struggle to growth and fulfilment within the confining strictures of English social life. Lawrence's 1920 novel ""Women in Love"" is a sequel to ""The Rainbow"". ""The Rainbow"" tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, a dynasty of farmers and craftsmen who live in the east Midlands of England, on the borders of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The book spans a period of roughly 65 years"