Flora Poste and the Starkadder family appear in which novel? (a parody of those by Mary Webb)
"psychology. She won the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse for ""Precious Bane"". After her death that Stanley Baldwin, then Prime Minister, brought about her commercial success through his approbation; at a Literary Fund dinner in 1928, Baldwin referred to her as a neglected genius. Consequently her collected works were republished in a standard edition by Jonathan Cape, becoming best sellers in the 1930s and running into many editions. Stella Gibbons's 1932 novel ""Cold Comfort Farm"" was a parody of Webb's work, as well as of other ""loam and lovechild"" writers like Sheila Kaye-Smith and Mary E. Mann and, further back, Thomas"
"to be a writer, decides that the only way for her to live whilst researching her writing is to stay with relatives. Her city-based relatives show no interest, so she sends letters to her country relatives. There are a few responses, most of them unsuitable, but one is intriguing. Flora decides to stay for a while with the Starkadder family on their rundown farm. The Starkadders are an assortment of rustic, uncouth, and truly eccentric characters, each of whom has a hurdle (be it physical, emotional, or spiritual) to overcome before reaching his or her potential. Flora quickly realises that,"
"recent traditions about Starkad in north-western Skåne. The plot of the Science Fiction novel ""Ensign Flandry"" by the Danish American writer Poul Anderson takes place on a planet named ""Starkad"". The modern Danish name, ""Stærkodder"" has been used for a war ship in the Royal Danish Navy. Starkad (or ""Starkadder"") is the central figure in a trilogy of fantasy novels by the author Bernard King, which draw heavily from traditional Starkad stories and from other aspects of Norse myth and legend. The trilogy comprises the novels ""Starkadder"" (1985), ""Vargr-Moon"" (1986), and ""Death-Blinder"" (1988). Starkad, as Starkaðr the Mighty, is mentioned"
"relatives at the isolated Cold Comfort Farm in the fictional village of Howling in Sussex. The inhabitants of the farm – Aunt Ada Doom, the Starkadders, and their extended family and workers – feel obliged to take her in to atone for an unspecified wrong once done to her father. As is typical in a certain genre of romantic 19th-century and early 20th-century literature, each of the farm's inhabitants has some long-festering emotional problem caused by ignorance, hatred, or fear, and the farm is badly run. Flora, being a level-headed, urban woman in the dandy tradition, determines that she must"
"(aired December 6, 2016) portrays the murders and subsequent trial. ""The Thirteenth Step"", the January 11, 2011, episode of ""Criminal Minds"", depicts newlyweds on a North Dakota-Montana killing spree similar to the Starkweather–Fugate case. The 1974 book ""Caril"" is an unauthorized biography of Caril Ann Fugate written by Ninette Beaver. Liza Ward, the granddaughter of victims C. Lauer and Clara Ward, wrote the 2004 novel ""Outside Valentine"", based on the events of the Starkweather–Fugate murder-spree. The 1997 novel ""Not Comin' Home to You"" by Lawrence Block fictionally parallels the Starkweather and Fugate crimes. The book """" by Jeff McArthur follows"
"mother, the sale of the family farm, and the marriage of his sister to a virtual stranger. The novel's content provides a personal view of America in the 20th Century, dealing with themes of war, industrialization, conservation and the American Dream. It also provides a glimpse into the way a family unit is slowly destroyed due to this arrival of a new age. Fate is one of the chief themes of the novel: no matter how hard one works for a better life, fate may alter the outcome. Thus, the book has a naturalistic perspective. Postcards (novel) Postcards is E."
"Falconer's Lure Falconer's Lure is a 1957 falconry-based novel by Antonia Forest. ""Falconer's Lure"" is the third book in the series, between ""The Marlows and the Traitor"" and ""End of Term"". In the 1950s pony books were very popular among young girls. Antonia Forest's publishers wanted something different, so she wrote about falconry. ""Falconer's Lure"" features the Marlow family during the summer holidays at their cousin's farm, Trennels, and was published in 1957 (although set in 1948). It was republished by Girls Gone by Press in 2002. ""Falconer's Lure"" introduces Patrick Merrick, a key character in most of the ensuing"
"of Leicestershire, suggested ""Cold Comfort"" as an alternative, using the name of a farm in the Hinckley area. Gibbons was delighted with the suggestion, and the work was published as ""Cold Comfort Farm"" in September 1932. The plot concerns the efforts of ""a rational, bossy London heroine"" to bring order and serenity to her rustic relations, the Starkadders, on their run-down Sussex farm. According to the ""Feminist Companion to Literature in English"", Gibbons's parody ""[demolishes] ... the stock-in-trade of earthy regionalists such as Thomas Hardy, Mary Webb, Sheila Kaye-Smith and D. H. Lawrence"". The literary scholar Faye Hammill describes the"
"met with strong reception. After the Civil War, Warfield published eight more novels, all under her own name. The two most popular were ""Ferne Fleming"" (1877) and its sequel ""The Cardinal's Daughter"" (1877); however, no work gained the same degree of success as her first novel. She died in 1877. Walker Percy's novel ""Lancelot"" bears a resemblance to ""The Household of Bouverie."" Despite Walker's disclaimer, both the Percy biographer Bertram Wyatt-Brown and his nephew William Armstrong Percy, III believe that he based the novel, so different from his others, on his predecessor's work. Catherine Anne Warfield Catherine Anne Warfield (née"
"issue of bereavement. Falconer's Lure Falconer's Lure is a 1957 falconry-based novel by Antonia Forest. ""Falconer's Lure"" is the third book in the series, between ""The Marlows and the Traitor"" and ""End of Term"". In the 1950s pony books were very popular among young girls. Antonia Forest's publishers wanted something different, so she wrote about falconry. ""Falconer's Lure"" features the Marlow family during the summer holidays at their cousin's farm, Trennels, and was published in 1957 (although set in 1948). It was republished by Girls Gone by Press in 2002. ""Falconer's Lure"" introduces Patrick Merrick, a key character in most"
"Starcrossed (novel) Starcrossed is a young adult fantasy romance novel by American author Josephine Angelini. The story follows a girl named Helen Hamilton, who is gradually revealed to be a modern-day Helen of Troy. After discovering her heritage, Helen learns that a union with the boy she loves may trigger a new Trojan War. The novel was followed by the sequels ""Dreamless"" and ""Goddess"", and received praise from critics and fantasy authors amidst its release. ""Starcrossed"" follows a seventeen-year-old teenager named Helen Hamilton who lives in Nantucket. After having a series of mysterious dreams, along with hallucinations of three young"
"Starcross (novel) Starcross, or the Coming of the Moobs! or Our Adventures in the Fourth Dimension! is a young adult novel by Philip Reeve, released in October 2007. Illustrated by David Wyatt, it is the second book in the ""Larklight"" trilogy, sequel to the 2006 novel ""Larklight"". Protagonist Arthur (""Art"") Mumby and his older sister Myrtle are invited to the Starcross hotel on a small and periodically barren asteroid. There, Arthur’s mother Emily suspects that Starcross is built on a piece of Mars which routinely slips through a hole in the fabric of time, and Myrtle then discovers that Sir"
"stars, saying that ""If there is a fault in the author's writing then its only the fact that she made it more to be a love story rather than a war one"". Jim Higgins of the ""Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"" said that the book was reminiscent of Pat Barker's ""Regeneration"". It was also reviewed by such newspapers as the ""Los Angeles Times"", ""San Francisco Chronicle"", ""the Boston Globe"", ""the Washington Post"", and ""Toronto Star"". Stella Bain Stella Bain is an American novel by Anita Shreve, set in World War I. The book was released on November 12, 2013 by Little, Brown"
"mockery of contemporary and indeed future artistic and intellectual trends, before the male Starkadders return from overseas, wreck the centre and restore the farm to its original primitive state. The book was moderately successful but, Oliver remarks, does not compare with the original. In 1950 Gibbons published her ""Collected Poems"", and in the same year was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Throughout the 1950s she continued, at roughly two-year intervals, to produce politely received novels, none of which created any particular stir. Among these was ""Fort of the Bear"" (1953), in which she departed from her"
"her second time performing in an adaptation of Haley's work. Critical reception for the miniseries was mixed, with some reviewers comparing it unfavorably to Haley's Roots miniseries. Tyson won an Image Award in 1999 for her role as Mama Flora. Mama Flora's Family Mama Flora's Family is a 1997 historical fiction novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens. The story spans from the 1920s to the 1970s as it follows Flora, a daughter of poor black Mississippi sharecroppers, and her descendants. Haley died before completing the novel, with Stevens finishing the story line. In 1998 the book was adapted into"
"The Old Castle's Other Secret or A Letter from Home ""The Old Castle's ""Other"" Secret"", alternately titled ""A Letter From Home"", is Don Rosa's sequel to ""The Crown of the Crusader Kings"". The title is a reference to ""The Old Castle's Secret"", which was the second story to feature Scrooge McDuck and was the first in which he was a starring character in an adventure with his nephews. Scrooge McDuck and his family return to Castle McDuck to find the treasure of the Knights Templar; the caretaker is revealed to be Scrooge's sister (and Donald's and Huey, Dewey, and Louie's"
"called a ""riveting literary suspense novel"". Outside Valentine Outside Valentine is the 2004 debut novel of American author Liza Ward, the granddaughter of two of the victims of spree killer Charles Starkweather. The book was first published on August 12, 2004 through Picador and is told from the perspective of Caril Ann Fugate, Starkweather's accomplice, the son of two of his victims, and the son's wife. Film rights to ""Outside Valentine"" were optioned, but plans to create a feature film did not come to fruition. Lowell, an antique collector operating out of Manhattan, can't seem to forget the bloody path"
"Charles Starkweather, a high school dropout five years her senior, whom she met through her sister Barbara, who was dating Starkweather's friend, Bob von Busch. Starkweather worked as a truck unloader at the Western Newspaper Union warehouse. On January 21, 1958, Starkweather shot and killed Fugate's stepfather, Marion Bartlett, and her mother, Velda. Starkweather then hit her baby half-sister, Betty Jean, causing blunt-force trauma, and stabbed her in the neck. Fugate claimed she came home to find Starkweather there alone, waiting for her with a gun. She said he told her that her family was being held hostage and that"
"Mama Flora's Family Mama Flora's Family is a 1997 historical fiction novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens. The story spans from the 1920s to the 1970s as it follows Flora, a daughter of poor black Mississippi sharecroppers, and her descendants. Haley died before completing the novel, with Stevens finishing the story line. In 1998 the book was adapted into a made for TV miniseries of the same name. The young Flora meets the wealthy Lincoln Flemming at a dance one night. Lincoln wants her to come care for his elderly grandmother Nana at his home, to which she agrees."
"imagination of author Philip Reeve. The Sunday Times called it “'Remarkable...Out of this world.'” Starcross (novel) Starcross, or the Coming of the Moobs! or Our Adventures in the Fourth Dimension! is a young adult novel by Philip Reeve, released in October 2007. Illustrated by David Wyatt, it is the second book in the ""Larklight"" trilogy, sequel to the 2006 novel ""Larklight"". Protagonist Arthur (""Art"") Mumby and his older sister Myrtle are invited to the Starcross hotel on a small and periodically barren asteroid. There, Arthur’s mother Emily suspects that Starcross is built on a piece of Mars which routinely slips"
"by contrast, bears the Hebrew name of two Biblical figures: Joshua, a commander who fought at God's command, and Jesus. ""The Arm of the Starfish"" is the first of four novels about Poly (later called Polly) and the O'Keefe family. The other three are ""Dragons in the Waters"" (1976), ""A House Like a Lotus"" (1984) and ""An Acceptable Time"" (1989). ""The Arm of the Starfish"" takes place about twelve to thirteen years after the events of ""A Swiftly Tilting Planet"", the last of the Time Quartet of books about the Murry family. The Murry-O'Keefe books are said to take place"
"The Coquette The Coquette or, The History of Eliza Wharton is an epistolary novel by Hannah Webster Foster. It was published anonymously in 1797, and did not appear under the author's real name until 1856, 16 years after Foster's death. It was one of the best-selling novels of its time and was reprinted eight times between 1824 and 1828. A fictionalized account of the much-publicized death of a socially elite Connecticut woman after giving birth to a stillborn, illegitimate child at a roadside tavern, Foster's novel highlights the social conditions that lead to the downfall of an otherwise well-educated and"
"Crime to Remember"" (aired December 6, 2016) also covers the Starkweather–Fugate murder spree. The 1974 book ""Caril"" is an unauthorized biography of Caril Ann Fugate written by Ninette Beaver. Liza Ward, the granddaughter of victims C. Lauer and Clara Ward, wrote the 2004 novel ""Outside Valentine"", based on the events of the Starkweather–Fugate murders. The 1997 novel ""Not Comin' Home to You"" by Lawrence Block fictionally parallels the Starkweather and Fugate spree. Horror author Stephen King was strongly influenced by reading about the Starkweather murders when he was a youth, keeping a scrapbook about them and later creating many variations"
"and his stories of reincarnation and past lives, most notably ""The Star Rover"" (1915); Rudyard Kipling's tales of subcontinent adventures; the classic mythological tales collected by Thomas Bulfinch. Howard was considered by friends to be eidetic, and astounded them with his ability to memorize lengthy reams of poetry with ease after one or two readings. In 1919, when Howard was thirteen, Dr. Howard moved his family to the Central Texas hamlet of Cross Plains, and there the family would stay for the rest of Howard's life. Howard's father bought a house in the town with a cash down payment and"
"and is a one-eyed supporter of Collingwood. Like Robbo, in book six he begins a romance, with national sprint champion Maria ""Gladiator"" Testi and ends it in book 7, but unlike Robbo, starts it up again. Christina Perry is Specky's on-again off-again girlfriend. The two meet in book 1, and begin a romance at the end of book 3, after her relationship with Screamer ends. Christina follows Carlton, like her other love interest, Derek ""Screamer"" Johnson. She is portrayed as a footy-mad tomboy, just like Samantha Shepherd. She moved to Sydney in book 6, but returned at the start of"
"paralleled in her novel """", published in the same year as ""Transcendental Wild Oats"". ""Transcendental Wild Oats"" has been reprinted in several modern editions. Transcendental Wild Oats Transcendental Wild Oats: A Chapter from an Unwritten Romance is a prose satire written by Louisa May Alcott, about her family's involvement with the Transcendentalist community Fruitlands in the early 1840s. The work was first published in a New York newspaper in 1873, and reprinted in 1874, 1876, and 1915 and after. In her account, Alcott provides the real people involved with thin pseudonymous disguises. Her father Amos Bronson Alcott is ""Abel Lamb,"""
"when she falls in love with Per Sterkarm. Price continued the story in ""A Sterkarm Kiss"" (Scholastic UK, 2003). FUP contacts the Sterkarms of a different dimension during a subtly different 16th century. The corporation attempts to manipulate them by reigniting a rivalry with another clan. Andrea Mitchell returns to the past but all the people she knew before are now strangers, including her lover Per. ""Publishers Weekly"" wrote that ""Price's gripping time-travel adventure cleverly imagines a startling collision of 21st-century technology and 16th-century mores."" Covering the Carnegie Medal shortlist for the ""Times Educational Supplement"", Geraldine Brennan wrote, —immediately, first"
"Frostbite (Mead novel) Frostbite is a vampire novel written by Richelle Mead. It is the second novel in the #1 ""New York Times"" bestselling series, ""Vampire Academy"". ""Frostbite"" continues the story of the main character, Rose Hathaway including her bond with Princess Vasilisa ""Lissa"" Dragomir, her budding romance with her instructor Dimitri Belikov, and her education in becoming a Guardian. The story begins with Rose and Dimitri traveling to meet the legendary guardian Arthur Schoenberg for Rose's Qualifier Exam. Once they arrive at the home of the Moroi family he protects, they discover a bloody massacre of the entire family"
"Fisher. After Francis Webb's death, Louisa remarried and became Louisa Darius. Webb grew up in Philadelphia's vibrant community of free African Americans, and worked there as a commercial artist. In 1845, at the age of 17, Webb married Mary Espartero. Mary E. Webb gained renown for her dramatic readings of works by Shakespeare, Longfellow, and Philip Sheridan. She attracted the attention of Harriet Beecher Stowe and other prominent literary abolitionists. Stowe was so impressed by the readings that she acted as her patron, adapting scenes from her bestselling novel ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" expressly for Mary Webb's performance. In late 1855"
"and uses a fictional character to stand in for Elizabeth's seducer, who was never conclusively identified. The best-selling novel presents Whitman's story as a morality tale against flirtatiousness, but also depicts Eliza as a sympathetic, complex character, extending the novel's purpose beyond that of simply a sermon against immorality. Foster's second novel, ""The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils"", an exploration of the topic of women's education, was far less commercially successful than ""The Coquette"". Taking place in a female academy, the novel consists of the headmistress's reflections on morality and the students's letters to each"
"Postmarked the Stars Postmarked the Stars is a science fiction novel by American writer Andre Norton, first published in the United States in 1969 by Harcourt, Brace & World. It is part of the series about the adventures of the interstellar tramp freighter ""Solar Queen"" and her crew. Sick from being drugged, Dane Thorson staggers out of a flophouse on the planet Xecho and gets back to his ship, the Free Trader (i.e. tramp freighter) Solar Queen, just in time for the ship's blastoff on its first mail run to Trewsworld. Once the ship is secured, Dane and the crew"
"on the life and work of the 12th century French poet, Marie de France, and involves love and magic, werewolves and fairy lovers. It evokes the medieval world and world view, notably through the device of the ""book within a book"". Her StarMaker trilogy for young adults is a set of unrelated fairytale fantasies set in an historical context. The books are based on Tattercoats and ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (""Malkin""), Sleeping Beauty (""Clementine"") and Puss in Boots (""Serafin""). Her Thomas Trew series for children is set in the Hidden Land, a fantasy world of several realms, each dominated by"
"says that they were not published due to permission being refused by Langley's daughter, Bisi. Lucy Frost's ""Wilde Eve"", another editing of the New Zealand novels, was published in 1999. In her introduction to this work, Frost writes ""She was Eve Langley and Oscar Wilde, Australian woman and English man – poet caught in the woe of World War II and immortal, one of the ancients come again to life"". Despite this, the Wilde obsession plays little part in the book, with Frost, herself, admitting that ""the narrator's other is Steve, not Oscar Wilde"", Steve being the name she uses"