"in 1857 he became embroiled in its controversies, writing furious letters to newspapers to defend Gaskell's depiction of Charlotte Brontë's miserable school days against the very teachers who now felt slandered. Further allegations of slander and libel led to the biography being withdrawn and re-issued twice with corrections which only served to stoke the public's imagination. Nicholls continued living at Haworth Parsonage as Patrick's assistant until Patrick's death in June 1861 and although he was expected to succeed him as the incumbent minister the church trustees voted against him and he resigned. He put the contents of Haworth Parsonage up"
"Christine Nicholls Christine Stephanie Nicholls, née Metcalfe, (born 23 January 1943) is an author and former editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. She spent her childhood in Kenya. Now retired she lives in Oxford, England. Nicholls was born in England and accompanied her parents to Kenya in 1947. She moved around Kenya as her father took a series of teaching posts until he was employed permanently at Mombasa Primary School in 1954. At this time Nicholls was a boarder at Kenya High School in Nairobi. In 1961 Nicholls went to Lady Margaret Hall, in Oxford University where she received"
"composer, and Nicholls was the debut soloist in one of his compositions, ""Ode to a Nightingale"", which was heard at the 1907 Cardiff Festival. This work was repeated the same year at The Proms in London's Albert Hall. As well as performing in opera and delivering songs, Nicholls sang in many oratorios, including Parry's ""Judith"" and Bach's ""St Matthew Passion"". Sir Henry Wood, the conductor and impresario, described her as ""a great artist with a beautiful voice (which) seemed to have been made for Bach's arias"". Nicholls died in London, aged 82, but her pure, strong, well-trained and steady voice"
"Agnes Nicholls Agnes Nicholls (14 July 1876 [some sources say 1877] – 21 September 1959) was one of the greatest English sopranos of the 20th century, both in the concert hall and on the operatic stage. Born in Cheltenham in the picturesque Cotswolds, Nicholls was the daughter of a music-loving draper. She received her early education at Bedford High School where she started singing lessons with Dr H. Alfred Harding. In 1894, she won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where her teacher was Albert Visetti. During her student years she took the part of Dido in Purcell's"
"Marjory Nicholls Marjory Lydia Nicholls (29 July 1890 – 1 October 1930) was a New Zealand poet, teacher and drama producer. She was a significant figure in New Zealand poetry and theatre between 1910 and 1930, and became a well-known personality in Wellington, with interests in theatre, writing and the arts. Nicholls was born in Wellington in 1890. She was the youngest daughter of Harry Edgar Nicholls, a Harbour Board Secretary and a prominent actor in the Wellington theatre scene. She was educated first at Clyde Quay School and Terrace School and after at Wellington Girls' College and Victoria University"
"late to the printing press, resulting in the typeset errors. The Female Quixote The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella is a novel written by Charlotte Lennox imitating and parodying the ideas of Miguel de Cervantes' ""Don Quixote"". Published in 1752, two years after she wrote her first novel, ""The Life of Harriot Stuart"", it was her best-known and most-celebrated work. It was approved by both Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson, applauded by Samuel Johnson, and used as a model by Jane Austen for ""Northanger Abbey"". It has been called a burlesque, ""satirical harlequinade"", and a depiction of the"
"Nicholls. Marjory Nicholls Marjory Lydia Nicholls (29 July 1890 – 1 October 1930) was a New Zealand poet, teacher and drama producer. She was a significant figure in New Zealand poetry and theatre between 1910 and 1930, and became a well-known personality in Wellington, with interests in theatre, writing and the arts. Nicholls was born in Wellington in 1890. She was the youngest daughter of Harry Edgar Nicholls, a Harbour Board Secretary and a prominent actor in the Wellington theatre scene. She was educated first at Clyde Quay School and Terrace School and after at Wellington Girls' College and Victoria"
"Penelope Fitzgerald Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was an English Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008, ""The Times"" included her in a list of ""the 50 greatest British writers since 1945"". In 2012, ""The Observer"" named her final novel, ""The Blue Flower"" one of ""the ten best historical novels"". Penelope Fitzgerald was born Penelope Mary Knox at the Old Bishop's Palace, Lincoln, the daughter of Edmund Knox, later editor of ""Punch"", and Christina Hicks, daughter of Edward Hicks, the bishop of Lincoln, and one of the first women students at Oxford. She was"
"The Female Quixote The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella is a novel written by Charlotte Lennox imitating and parodying the ideas of Miguel de Cervantes' ""Don Quixote"". Published in 1752, two years after she wrote her first novel, ""The Life of Harriot Stuart"", it was her best-known and most-celebrated work. It was approved by both Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson, applauded by Samuel Johnson, and used as a model by Jane Austen for ""Northanger Abbey"". It has been called a burlesque, ""satirical harlequinade"", and a depiction of the real power of females. While some dismissed Arabella as a"
"to Mystery & Mayhem by Egmont Publishing, published in May 2016 along with 11 other authors including Julia Golding, Katherine Woodfine, Clementine Beauvais, Elen Caldecott, Susie Day, Frances Hardinge, Caroline Lawrence, Helen Moss, Kate Pankhurst, Robin Stevens and Harriet Whitehorn. Her sixth book, ""Things a Bright Girl Can Do"", published in 2017, is a historical novel set in England between 1914 and 1918. It centres around three young women, their involvement with the Suffragette movement, and the effects of the Great War on their lives. In 2009, Nicholls won the Bolton Book Awards for Ways to Live Forever Sally Nicholls"
"Sources Nora Nicholson Nora Nicholson (7 December 1892 – 18 September 1973) was an English actress. Known for her portrayal of character roles, she achieved her greatest success in the later years of her career. She played in classics by Shakespeare and Chekhov and in new plays by authors including Noël Coward and Alan Bennett. Many of her best-regarded performances were as eccentric or even unhinged characters. In 1914 Nicholson joined The Old Vic company, where she played several Shakespearean roles, and during 1916 and 1917, she played Sally in a long tour of ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"". From the 1920s"
"Nora Nicholson Nora Nicholson (7 December 1892 – 18 September 1973) was an English actress. Known for her portrayal of character roles, she achieved her greatest success in the later years of her career. She played in classics by Shakespeare and Chekhov and in new plays by authors including Noël Coward and Alan Bennett. Many of her best-regarded performances were as eccentric or even unhinged characters. In 1914 Nicholson joined The Old Vic company, where she played several Shakespearean roles, and during 1916 and 1917, she played Sally in a long tour of ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"". From the 1920s to"
"her MA. She then attended St Anthony's College and received her D.Phil. Following her university education she was employed at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at London University as a research fellow. She later worked as a freelance researcher for the BBC Arabic department. Nicholls joined Oxford University Press in 1977 as Assistant Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. She later became the editor and produced 5 volumes from 1981 to 1986. She has also written a number of other factual books under the name of C.S. Nicholls. Christine Nicholls Christine Stephanie Nicholls, née Metcalfe, (born 23 January 1943)"
"Ross Nichols Philip Peter Ross Nichols (28 June 1902 – 30 April 1975) was a Cambridge academic and published poet, artist and historian, who founded the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids in 1964. He wrote prolifically on the subjects of Druidism and Celtic mythology. He revived the interest in Celtic neopaganism and Druidry in the 20th century. Nichols was a Member and Chairman of the Ancient Druid Order which traces its lineage to a meeting at the Apple Tree Tavern in Covent Garden, London, in 1717' although Professor Ronald Hutton has demonstrated that it only dates back to 1906,"
"instructed the play readers' group. She also produced two plays for the University Dramatic Society when first it began. An accomplished orator, in 1913, she became the first woman to compete for and win the Plunket Medal for Oratory at Victoria College. Nicholls left Victoria and travelled abroad to London in 1914, making contacts with the English and European stage. She moved back and forth between her activities at Victoria and further travel overseas visiting a number of countries, including Australia, South Africa, France and India, before returning to Wellington around 1919. In India and Ceylon, she met her future"
"Beverley Nichols John Beverley Nichols (9 September 1898 – 15 September 1983) was an English author, playwright, journalist, composer, and public speaker. Between his first book, the novel ""Prelude"", published in 1920, and his last, a book of poetry, ""Twilight"", published in 1982, Nichols wrote more than 60 books and plays. Besides novels, mysteries, short stories, essays and children's books, he wrote a number of nonfiction books on travel, politics, religion, cats, parapsychology, and autobiography. He wrote for a number of magazines and newspapers throughout his life, the longest being weekly columns for the London Sunday ""Chronicle"" newspaper (1932–1943) and"
"she published ""Shirley"" and in 1853 ""Villette"". The Brontë sisters were highly amused by the behaviour of the curates they met. Arthur Bell Nicholls (1818–1906) had been curate of Haworth for seven and a half years, when contrary to all expectations, and to the fury of Patrick Brontë (their father), he proposed to Charlotte. Although impressed by his dignity and deep voice, as well as by his near complete emotional collapse when she rejected him, she found him rigid, conventional, and rather narrow-minded 'like all the curates' – as she wrote to Ellen Nussey. After she declined his proposal, Nicholls,"
"Agnes C. Hall Agnes C. Hall (""née"" Scott) (1777–1846) was a Scottish writer of novels and non-fiction articles. She used the pseudonym Rosalia St Clair. Born in Roxburghshire, she was the wife of Dr. Robert Hall who died in 1824. She survived him, dying in London on 1 December 1846. Her time in the literary world brought her in particular the acquaintance of John Stuart Mill; but her financial difficulties were serious, and she applied in particular to the Royal Literary Fund. Hall was a contributor on literary and scientific topics to Olinthus Gregory's ""Pantologia"", William Nicholson's ""British Encyclopaedia"", and"
"Tabitha Aykroyd and Martha Brown, believed that Charlotte and Arthur were happy together. During her honeymoon Charlotte wrote to Ellen Nussey: However, on 26 December 1854 Charlotte wrote that Arthur ""is certainly my dear boy, and he is dearer to me today than he was six months ago"". After the deaths of Charlotte and Patrick Brontë, Nicholls returned to Banagher in County Offaly, to live with his widowed aunt and her daughter, Mary Anna Bell (1830-1915), whom he married in 1864. He left the curacy and managed a small farm, refusing to co-operate with would-be biographers who wanted to exploit"
"Peter Nicholls (writer) Peter Douglas Nicholls (8 March 1939 – 6 March 2018) was an Australian literary scholar and critic. He was the creator and a co-editor of ""The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction"" with John Clute. Born in Melbourne, Victoria, he spent two decades from 1968 to 1988 as an expatriate, first in the US, and then the UK. Nicholls' early career was as a literary academic, originally with the University of Melbourne. He first travelled to the US in 1968 on a Harkness Fellowship in film making, and has scripted television documentaries. His significant contributions to science fiction scholarship"
"Member of St Antony's College, Oxford (1976–96), Priest-in-charge, and later Vicar, of Church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Littlemore (1978–96), and Hulsean Lecturer at the University of Cambridge (1985–86). The David Nicholls Memorial Library at Regent's Park College, Oxford is named in his memory. David Nicholls was married to Gillian Sleigh from 1968 until his death. Although they had no children, their household was augmented by a Macaw called William Paley, named after the philosopher. David Nicholls (theologian) David Gwyn Nicholls (3 June 1936 – 13 June 1996) was the author of more than one hundred publications in the"
"Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, ""The Mousetrap"", and, under the pen name Mary Westmacott, six romances. In 1971 she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon."
"Sophie Cunningham. He lived in Melbourne with his wife, Clare Coney, where he died on 6 March 2018 at the age of 78. Peter Nicholls (writer) Peter Douglas Nicholls (8 March 1939 – 6 March 2018) was an Australian literary scholar and critic. He was the creator and a co-editor of ""The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction"" with John Clute. Born in Melbourne, Victoria, he spent two decades from 1968 to 1988 as an expatriate, first in the US, and then the UK. Nicholls' early career was as a literary academic, originally with the University of Melbourne. He first travelled to"
"Charles Nicholl (author) Charles Nicholl is an English author specializing in works of history, biography, literary detection, and travel. His subjects have included Christopher Marlowe, Arthur Rimbaud, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Nashe and William Shakespeare. Besides his literary output, Nicholl has also presented documentary programs on television. In 1974 he was the winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer Award for his account of an LSD trip entitled 'The Ups and The Downs'. Nicholl was educated at King's College, Cambridge, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has lectured in Britain, Italy and the United States."
"Kenneth Nicholls Kenneth W. Nicholls, Irish academic and historian, is a widely respected Irish historian. Nicholls came to national and international prominence as the author of ""Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages"", first published in 1972, and reprinted in 2003. He is particularly regarded among his peers for his deep knowledge of late medieval and early modern historical sources in Irish, Latin, French and English languages. His areas of professional interests include: Ken Nicholls was a member of staff of the history department in University College Cork until his retirement in 2004. His work is honoured in David"
"Hilda Nickson Hilda Nickson, née Pressley (18 November 1912 – 1977) was a British writer of over 60 romance novels published from 1957 to 1977, under her married and maiden name, and as Hilda Pressley. She was vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association. She was married to the writer Arthur Nickson (1902-1974). Hilda Pressley was born on 18 November 1912 in Maltby, England, UK. She married the Western fiction novelist Arthur (Thomas) Nickson (a.k.a. Arthur Hodson, Roy Peters, John Saunders, and Matt Winstan). She published her first novels as Hilda Nickson at Herbert Jenkins in the 1950s, before being taken"
"Charlotte Lennox Charlotte Lennox, ""née"" Ramsay (""c."" 1730 – 4 January 1804), was a Scottish author and poet. She is mostly remembered today as the author of ""The Female Quixote"", and for her association with Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds and Samuel Richardson. However, she had a long career in her own right, writing poetry, prose, and drama. Charlotte Lennox was born in Gibraltar. Her father, James Ramsay of Dalhousie, was a Scottish captain in the Royal Navy, and her mother Catherine, née Tisdall (d. 1765), was Scottish and Irish. She was baptised Barbara Charlotte Ramsay. Very little direct information on"
"John Nichols (printer) John Nichols (2 February 1745 – 26 November 1826) was an English printer, author and antiquary. He is remembered as an influential editor of the ""Gentleman's Magazine"" for nearly 40 years; author of a monumental county history of Leicestershire; author of two compendia of biographical material relating to his literary contemporaries; and as one of the agents behind the first complete publication of Domesday Book in 1783. He was born in Islington, London to Edward Nichols and Anne Wilmot. On 22 June 1766 he married Anne, daughter of William Cradock. Anne bore him three children: Anne (1767),"
"was a homosexual and is known to have had an affair with a famous war poet, Siegfried Sassoon. Nichols' long-term companion was Cyril Butcher, who was the main beneficiary of Nichols's will, amounting to £131,750 (£ in sterling). Beverley Nichols was buried in Glatton, England. | valign=top | Beverley Nichols John Beverley Nichols (9 September 1898 – 15 September 1983) was an English author, playwright, journalist, composer, and public speaker. Between his first book, the novel ""Prelude"", published in 1920, and his last, a book of poetry, ""Twilight"", published in 1982, Nichols wrote more than 60 books and plays. Besides"
"fiddle style. His recordings are featured on the following CDs:- In December 1943, he married Barbara Amy Morris (1 May 1926 – 4 August 2014), the eldest daughter of John Morris (co-founder of Boriswood publishers) and Pamela Paramythioti (co-founder of St Clare's, Oxford) and granddaughter of the composer Amy Horrocks. They had 5 children and also built a cottage (Castle Cottage) in Renvyle, County Galway, Ireland where their ashes are scattered. Tony Knowland Anthony Stephen Knowland (22 March 1919 – 10 December 2006) was a professor of English Literature, specialising in the work of W.B. Yeats, William Shakespeare and classical"
"is most notable for his work on Shakespeare. In 1894, MacCallum published a book ""Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Arthurian Story from the 16th century"" in which he traced the Arthurian story from its 'Brythonic' origins through Thomas Malory and up to its final phase in Lord Tennyson. MacCallum married Dorette Margaretha Peters in 1882 and had three children. Lady Maccallum was a founder of the National Council of Women of New South Wales and president in 1919-28. She also worked for the Infants' Home, Ashfield, the Sydney Day Nursery and Nursery Schools' Association, the Australian Board of Missions,"
"Annie French Hector Annie French Hector (Dublin, Ireland, 1825 – London, 10 July 1902) was a 19th-century popular novelist who wrote under the pen name ""Mrs Alexander"". It has been noted that her works ""typically revolve around a young girl torn between money, family and love, often complicated by a legacy."" Born in 1825, she was the only child of Robert French, a Dublin solicitor. Her family claimed to be descended from Irish gentry, the French family of Roscommon and Lord Annaly. On the paternal side, she was related to the poet Charles Wolfe and on her mother's side, to"
"Sally Nicholls Sally Nicholls (born 22 June 1983) is a prize-winning British children's book author. Nicholls was born and grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, England. She attended Great Ayton Friends' School until its closure and subsequently Egglescliffe School until 2001. On finishing school, Nicholls chose to travel around the world. She reached Australia and New Zealand, following a period of working in Japan at a Red Cross hospital. She returned to the United Kingdom to begin a bachelor's degree at the University of Warwick, covering Philosophy and Literature. Completing her undergraduate degree, she signed up to continue with Bath Spa University,"