"Just William (2010 TV series) Just William is a television series first broadcast on BBC One in December 2010. The series is based on the ""Just William"" series of books by Richmal Crompton. This latest adaptation is written by Simon Nye. It is the first adaption of the books since a children's television series in the 1990s. The series stars Daniel Roche as the title character, eponymous character William Brown, with Rebecca Front and Daniel Ryan as William's parents. Caroline Quentin and Warren Clarke appear as the parents of Violet Elizabeth Bott (played by Isabella Blake-Thomas), neighbours of the Brown"
"home at the age of 90. She had no children. Violet Philpott Violet Philpott (""née"" Yeomans; 28 April 1922 – 14 December 2012) was an English puppeteer and author. She was involved in the production of ""The Telegoons"" by making marionette figures and created the character Zippy for the children's television show ""Rainbow"" in 1972 but left production after one series because of a back injury. She toured the United Kingdom giving performances until she stopped in 2009 after being afflicted with dementia. Philpott was born Violet Yeomans in Kentish Town in north London on 28 April 1922. She was"
"Violet Philpott Violet Philpott (""née"" Yeomans; 28 April 1922 – 14 December 2012) was an English puppeteer and author. She was involved in the production of ""The Telegoons"" by making marionette figures and created the character Zippy for the children's television show ""Rainbow"" in 1972 but left production after one series because of a back injury. She toured the United Kingdom giving performances until she stopped in 2009 after being afflicted with dementia. Philpott was born Violet Yeomans in Kentish Town in north London on 28 April 1922. She was the only child of Lilian and Robert Yeomans, a pub"
"Mr. Brown, Stacy Dorning as Ethel Brown, Bonnie Langford as Violet Elizabeth Bott, Simon Chandler as Robert Brown and Diana Dors as Mrs. Bott. Information from here Series one Series two Christmas Special: In 1994, the BBC broadcast another series also called ""Just William"". Written by Allan Baker and directed by David Giles, it starred Oliver Rokison as William, Tiffany Griffiths as Violet Elizabeth Bott and featured Jonathan Hirst as Ginger, Alastair Weller (credited as Alistair Weller) as Douglas, Polly Adams as Mrs. Brown, David Horovitch as Mr. Brown, Ben Pullen as Robert Brown, Naomi Allisstone as Ellen the maid,"
"Violet Jacob Violet Jacob (1 September 1863 – 9 September 1946) was a Scottish writer, now known especially for her historical novel ""Flemington"" and for her poetry, mainly in Scots. She was described by Hugh MacDiarmid as ""the most considerable of contemporary vernacular poets"". She was born Violet Augusta Mary Frederica Kennedy-Erskine, the daughter of William Henry Kennedy-Erskine (1 July 1828 – 15 September 1870) of Dun, Forfarshire, a Captain in the 17th Lancers and Catherine Jones (died 13 February 1914), the only daughter of William Jones of Henllys, Carmarthenshire. Her father was the son of John Kennedy-Erskine (1802–1831) of"
"Violet Barclay Violet A. Barclay (November 5, 1922 – February 26, 2010), who also worked under the name Valerie Barclay and the married name Valerie Smith, was an American illustrator best known as one of the pioneering female comic-book artists, having started in the field during the 1930s and 1940s period historians and fans call the Golden Age of Comic Books. Born Violet Barclay, she adopted ""Valerie"" in adulthood, after actress Valerie Hobson, though without filing for legal change of name. Barclay was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City, New York, with a sister, two younger brothers, and"
"Folk Band ""Malinky"" have also released a version of Norlan' Wind. Violet Jacob Violet Jacob (1 September 1863 – 9 September 1946) was a Scottish writer, now known especially for her historical novel ""Flemington"" and for her poetry, mainly in Scots. She was described by Hugh MacDiarmid as ""the most considerable of contemporary vernacular poets"". She was born Violet Augusta Mary Frederica Kennedy-Erskine, the daughter of William Henry Kennedy-Erskine (1 July 1828 – 15 September 1870) of Dun, Forfarshire, a Captain in the 17th Lancers and Catherine Jones (died 13 February 1914), the only daughter of William Jones of Henllys,"
"Haunting Violet Haunting Violet is a paranormal novel by Alyxandra Harvey. It was officially released in UK on July 5, 2011. ""Haunting Violet"" is set in 1872 and the world of Victorian spiritualism. The main character, Violet Willoughby, is the daughter of a fraudulent medium. For years she has taken part in her mother's faked seances, pretending to put the rich and powerful in touch with the dead, and their success has brought them a life of luxury they could only have dreamed of and Violet the prospect of a society marriage. But Violet has a real, unsuspected power to"
"The Secret Woman (novel) The Secret Woman is a Gothic romance and suspense novel written by English author Eleanor Hibbert under the pseudonym Victoria Holt. It was originally published in 1970 and is considered to be a bestseller. Set in 1887, it chronicles Anna Brett's scandalous romance with the married ship captain Redvers Stretton. As they sail across the South Seas, tensions build among Anna, Redvers, and everyone else on-board ""The Serene Lady"", and a mystery involving murder, the destruction of ship called ""The Secret Woman"", and a missing fortune of diamonds begins to unravel. Anna Brett was born in"
"Violet Hunt Isobel Violet Hunt (28 September 1862 – 16 January 1942) was a British author and literary hostess. She wrote feminist novels. She founded the Women Writers' Suffrage League in 1908 and participating in the founding of International PEN. Hunt was born in Durham. Her father was the artist Alfred William Hunt, her mother the novelist and translator Margaret Raine Hunt. The family moved to London in 1865 and she was brought up in the Pre-Raphaelite group, knowing John Ruskin and William Morris. There is a story that Oscar Wilde, a friend and correspondent, proposed to her in Dublin"
"Violet (opera) Violet is a 2005 opera by Roger Scruton to a libretto by the composer, based on the biography of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse by her great-niece, Jessica Douglas-Home. The composer has said that ""it tells the remarkable story of this woman who lived with four men – it was a story about the history of music, the history of England, about sex, and the difference between the old culture of sex and the new one, and how it all came together in the life of this peculiar woman"". The two-act opera was given the first of two performances on 30"
"produced the widely popular Angelique (novel series) by Anne Golon set in the France of Louis XIV. Walter Scott is usually seen as the inventor of the modern historical novel and the inspiration for enormous numbers of imitators and genre writers both in the United Kingdom and on the European continent. In the cultural sphere, though Jane Porter was writing successfully in this genre before him. Scott is most famous for his series the Waverley novels. One of the first mass market historical romances Georgette Heyer's ""The Black Moth"" appeared in 1921. Eleanor Hibbert (1906 – 1993) was an English"
"Elizabeth Boott Elizabeth ""Lizzie"" Otis Lyman Boott (April 13, 1846 – March 22, 1888) was an American artist. She was the daughter of the classical music composer, Francis Boott and Elizabeth (""née"" Lyman) Boott. She married Frank Duveneck, her former teacher, and lived in the Villa Castellini in Florence. Boott was born on April 13, 1846 in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of the classical music composer, Francis Boott and Elizabeth (""née"" Lyman) Boott. Her mother, who died when she was 18 months old, was the eldest daughter of a Boston Brahmin, George Lyman and his first wife, who"
"Violet Trefusis Violet Trefusis (""née"" Keppel; 6 June 1894 – 29 February 1972) was an English socialite and author. She is chiefly remembered for her lengthy affair with the poet Vita Sackville-West, which the two women continued after their respective marriages. This was featured in novels by both parties, in Virginia Woolf's novel """", and in many letters and memoirs of the period, roughly 1912–1922. She was also the inspiration for Lady Montdore in Nancy Mitford's ""Love in a Cold Climate"" and Muriel in Harold Acton's ""The Soul's Gymnasium"". Trefusis was an author in her own right, publishing novels and"
"Eleanor Hibbert Eleanor Alice Hibbert (née Burford; 1 September 1906 – 18 January 1993) was an English author who combined imagination with facts to bring history alive through novels of fiction and romance. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty; Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. A literary split personality, she also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under the various pseudonyms including Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford,"
"""The Discontented Raindrop,"" ""Little Bed Cap"" (Squirrel), ""The Violet and Nutshell,"" ""The Rose Club,"" ""How the Fairies Came"" (Rainbow colors), ""Dear Little Brownie"" (Chestnut), ""Little Yellow and His Brothers and Sisters"" (Maple leaf). She married George Austin Coolidge in 1872. A daughter, Emelyn Lincoln Coolidge (b. Boston, August 9, 1873), was a pediatrician. Coolidge died on either 17 or 18 May, 1902 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, after having been rushed there from Washington, D. C. suffering from acute bronchitis. Harriet Abbott Lincoln Coolidge Harriet Abbott Lincoln Coolidge (1849 - 1902) was an American philanthropist, author and reformer."
"Virginia Lee Burton Virginia Lee Burton (August 30, 1909 – October 15, 1968), also known by her married name, Virginia Demetrios, was an American illustrator and children's book author. She wrote and illustrated seven children's books, including ""The Little House"" (1943), which won the Caldecott Medal. She also illustrated six books by other authors. Burton founded the textile collective, Folly Cove Designers, in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, which had numerous museum exhibitions. Some of its members' works are held today in the collections of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Cape Ann Museum, and"
"literary work ever written. In 2015, writers from outside the UK voted it first among all British novels ""by a landslide"". The various film and television adaptations of Eliot's books have re-introduced her to the wider reading public. George Eliot Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Ann or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, including ""Adam Bede"" (1859), ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860), ""Silas Marner"" (1861), ""Romola"" (1862–63), ""Middlemarch"" (1871–72),"
"Comics"" (1944) and work for ""Prize Comics"" (1945). In 1946, he drew Impossible Man for ""Captain Wizard"" and the superhero satire Captain Milksop for ""Atomic Bomb Comics"" #1. Voight lived for a time in Pelham, New York. When Fontaine Fox first came to visit his friend Voight, he rode the Pelham trolley that inspired him to create the Toonerville Trolley for his long-running cartoon panel, ""Toonerville Folks"". Charles A. Voight Charles Anthony Voight (April 28, 1887 – February 10, 1947) was an American cartoonist, best known for his comic strip ""Betty"". Born in Brooklyn, New York, Voight was 14 when"
"Elizabeth Gaskell Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (""née"" Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Her first novel, ""Mary Barton"", was published in 1848. Gaskell's ""The Life of Charlotte Brontë"", published in 1857, was the first biography of Brontë. In this biography, she only wrote of the moral, sophisticated things in Brontë’s life, the"
"Violet Florence Martin Violet Florence Martin (11 June 1862 – 21 December 1915) was an Irish author who co-wrote a series of novels with cousin Edith Somerville under the pen name of Martin Ross in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Martin was born at Ross House in Connemara, County Galway, the youngest of sixteen children of James Martin of Ross (1804–1872). The Martin family, a branch of the Martyn family - one of the Tribes of Galway - had settled at Ross by the early seventeenth century, having previously inhabited the town of Galway for some three hundred"
"very striking, among the finest of their kind."" Vernon Lee Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 – 13 February 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel. Violet Paget was born in France on 14 October 1856, at Château St Leonard, Boulogne, to British expatriate parents, Henry Ferguson Paget and Matilda Lee-Hamilton (née Abadam). Violet Paget was the half-sister of Eugene Jacob Lee-Hamilton (1845–1907) by her"
"Dorothy Gilman Dorothy Edith Gilman (June 25, 1923 – February 2, 2012) was an American writer. She is best known for the Mrs. Pollifax series. Begun in a time when women in mystery meant Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and international espionage meant young government men like James Bond and the spies of John Le Carre and Graham Greene, Emily Pollifax, her heroine, became a spy in her 60s and is very likely the only spy in literature to belong simultaneously to the CIA and the local garden club. Dorothy Gilman was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to minister James"
"Violet Book Violet Book is a biannual British art and fashion magazine launched in 2014 by Leith Clark. Clark, who served as both the founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine, created the publication as a reaction to ""the way youth is over-celebrated."" ""Violet Book"" also publishes an international edition, ""Violet Book Japan"", which is also biannual. The inaugural issue was published in April 2014 and featured actress Brit Marling on the cover. Alexa Chung, a former roommate of Clark's is the only woman to have appeared on both the UK and Japanese editions of Violet Book. Clark made it a"
"Julie Campbell Tatham Julie Campbell Tatham (June 1, 1908 – July 7, 1999) was a US writer of children's novels, who also wrote for adults, especially on Christian Science. As Julie Campbell she was the creator of the Trixie Belden series (she wrote the first six) and the Ginny Gordon series. As Julie Tatham she also took over the Cherry Ames series and Vicki Barr series from Helen Wells. Julie Campbell was born on June 1, 1908 in Flushing, New York, United States. She was the seventh of ten children of Julia deFres (Sample) and Archibald Campbell, an Army general,"
"Just William (1977 TV series) Just William is a British television series based on the ""Just William"" series of books by Richmal Crompton. It aired for two series, between 1977 and 1978, on ITV. The series starred child actors Adrian Dannatt as William and Bonnie Langford as Violet, as well as established film star Diana Dors as Mrs Bott. Two annuals based on the series were published by World Distributors (Manchester) Ltd. for 1978 and 1979 (published in late 1977 and 1978 respectively). These consisted mainly of features, games and activities, with picture strip stories also included. Both series of"
"is now retired from acting. Tiffany Helm became well known for making appearances on popular TV shows throughout the 80s and 90s Tiffany Helm Tiffany Helm (born May 12, 1964) is an American film and television actress. Her best known role was in the 1985 horror film """" as Violet. She also starred in ""The Zoo Gang"" (1985) and ""Reform School Girls"" (1986) a B movie spoof of women in prison films. She has also made guest appearances on TV shows such as ""Bare Essence"", ""You Again?"", ""21 Jump Street"", and ""Freddy's Nightmares"". She is the daughter of actress Brooke"
"George Eliot Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Ann or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, including ""Adam Bede"" (1859), ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860), ""Silas Marner"" (1861), ""Romola"" (1862–63), ""Middlemarch"" (1871–72), and ""Daniel Deronda"" (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. Although female authors were published under their own names during her lifetime, she wanted to escape the stereotype"
"accepted by the hero who is blind. In 1983, Takarazuka Snow Troupe staged ""Blue Jasmine"". Violet Winspear Violet Winspear (28 April 1928 – January 1989) was a British writer of 70 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1961 to 1987. In 1973, she became a launch author for the new Mills & Boon-Harlequin Presents line of category romance novels. Presents line books were more sexually explicit than the previous line, Romance, under which Winspear had been published. She was chosen to be a launch author because she, along with Anne Mather and Anne Hampson were the most popular and"
"Violet Cameron Violet Lydia Thompson (7 December 1862 – 25 October 1919), better known by her stage name of Violet Cameron, was an English actress and singer who gained fame in Robert Planquette's operettas ""Les cloches de Corneville"" and ""Rip Van Winkle"", and Francis Chassaigne's opéra bouffe ""Falka"", and notoriety for her affair with Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale. Cameron was born in London in 1862 to Mary Josephine (""née"" Brougham) and William Melfington Thompson, a linen merchant. Her ""aunt"" was the Victorian burlesque actress and dancer Lydia Thompson. She made her stage début in 1871 at the age"
"Violet Loraine Violet Loraine (26 July 1886 – 18 July 1956) was an English musical theatre actress and singer. She was born Violet Mary Tipton in Kentish Town, London, in 1886 and went on the stage as a chorus girl at the age of sixteen. Her rise to fame came in April 1916 at the Alhambra Theatre in the musical/revue ""The Bing Boys Are Here"". She was given the leading female part, Emma, opposite George Robey playing Lucius Bing. It became one of the most popular musicals of the World War I era. Her duet with Robey ""If You Were"
"Marriott Watson. Rosamund Marriott Watson Rosamund (Ball) Marriott Watson (1860–1911) was an English poet, nature writer and critic, who early in her career wrote under the pseudonyms of Graham R. Tomson and Rushworth (or R.) Armytage. She was a follower of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but by no means a derivative one. Rosamund Ball, known as Rose, was born in London on 6 October 1860, the fifth child of Benjamin Williams Ball, an accountant and amateur poet, and Sylvia (Good) Ball. Her older brother Wilfrid Ball became a painter of landscapes and marine subjects who helped introduce"
"Violet Winspear Violet Winspear (28 April 1928 – January 1989) was a British writer of 70 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1961 to 1987. In 1973, she became a launch author for the new Mills & Boon-Harlequin Presents line of category romance novels. Presents line books were more sexually explicit than the previous line, Romance, under which Winspear had been published. She was chosen to be a launch author because she, along with Anne Mather and Anne Hampson were the most popular and prolific British authors of Mills and Boon. In 1970 Winspear commented that she wrote her"