Who wrote the story the Tailor of Gloucester?
"The Tailor of Gloucester The Tailor of Gloucester is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, privately printed by the author in 1902, and published in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1903. The story is about a tailor whose work on a waistcoat is finished by the grateful mice he rescues from his cat and was based on a real world incident involving a tailor and his assistants. For years, Potter declared that of all her books it was her personal favourite. A tailor in Gloucester sends his cat Simpkin to buy food"
"and the action of ""The Tailor of Gloucester"" takes place in the 18th century. Potter sketched the Gloucester street where the tailor's shop stood as well as cottage interiors, crockery, and furniture. The son of Hutton's coachman posed as a model for the tailor. In Chelsea, Potter was allowed to sketch the interior of a tailor's shop to whose proprietor she would later send a copy. She visited the costume department at the South Kensington Museum to refine her illustrations of 18th century dress. Potter later borrowed Freda Moore's gift copy, revised the work, and privately printed the tale in"
"a poor tailor and the mice in his shop called ""The Tailor of Gloucester"". In November 1902, a month before the private printing of ""The Tailor"", she gave her publisher Norman Warne a version of her squirrel book. He encouraged her to continue the squirrel drawings. In January 1903, she wrote to a former neighbour that she was busy writing a tale about squirrels, and told the grandchildren of Edward Burne-Jones that she was drawing a little squirrel at home. The story was published in August 1903, in a deluxe edition, with a cloth cover, illustrated end-papers, and a print-run"
"Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766), his pastoral poem ""The Deserted Village"" (1770), and his plays ""The Good-Natur'd Man"" (1768) and ""She Stoops to Conquer"" (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale ""The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes"" (1765). Goldsmith's birth date and year are not known with certainty. According to the Library of Congress authority file, he told a biographer that he was born on 10 November"
"""The Tailor of Gloucester"" ought to be something less complex than the two previous productions. She had several possible stories in mind and outlined them for the firm, but was anxious to settle on a choice as quickly as possible to guide her sketching while on holiday. It was decided between Potter and her publisher that one of the two books for 1904 would be ""Benjamin Bunny"". Benjamin Bunny had been mentioned in the manuscript of the privately printed edition of ""Peter Rabbit"" but had been dropped as irrelevant to the tale. A picture of his father was included in"
"The Flower of Gloster The Flower of Gloster is a 1911 book by E. Temple Thurston (23 September 1879 – 19 March 1933), an Anglo-Irish poet, playwright and author. Published by Williams and Norgate, it sold well enough to merit a second edition two years later. A third unillustrated edition was published by Chapman and Hall in 1918, after which the book remained out of print for over half a century until being republished by David & Charles in 1968. A year before that, ITV had broadcast a 13-part children's serial of the same name (loosely) based on Thurston's original"
"Gloster"", an updated version of Thurston's original. The serial was followed a few years later by a book of the same name, authored by the serial's producer Bill Grundy. E. Temple Thurston Ernest Charles Temple Thurston (23 September 1879 – 19 March 1933) was a British poet, playwright and author. Thurston was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England. the youngest of four children of brewery manager Frank Joseph Thurston and his wife Georgina Temple. The family moved from Halesworth to Maidstone and then, after the death of Georgina in 1895, left England to live with Thurston Snr's mother in Ballintemple, Cork."
"the idea after visiting a rally near his home in Marple The Flower of Gloster The Flower of Gloster is a 1911 book by E. Temple Thurston (23 September 1879 – 19 March 1933), an Anglo-Irish poet, playwright and author. Published by Williams and Norgate, it sold well enough to merit a second edition two years later. A third unillustrated edition was published by Chapman and Hall in 1918, after which the book remained out of print for over half a century until being republished by David & Charles in 1968. A year before that, ITV had broadcast a 13-part"
"translated from numerous sources densely interwoven with original text. Robert of Gloucester (historian) Robert of Gloucester (fl. c. 1260 – c. 1300) wrote a chronicle of British, English, and Norman history sometime in the mid- or late-thirteenth century. Little is known about Robert himself; the key reason for attributing the Chronicle to a person of this name is a mention in the continuation of the longer version that 'roberd / þat verst þis boc made' ('Robert / that first this book made', lines 11748-49) personally witnessed an eclipse that accompanied the Battle of Evesham (1265). The appellation 'of Gloucester' was"
"novel ""The Painted Veil"" by W. Somerset Maugham, the last words of the poem ""An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog"", ""The dog it was that died"", are the dying words of bacteriologist Walter Fane, one of the primary characters in the novel. Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766), his pastoral poem ""The Deserted Village"" (1770), and his plays ""The Good-Natur'd Man"" (1768) and ""She Stoops to Conquer"" (1771, first performed in 1773). He"
"Company, ""The Tailor of Gloucester"" by the Tate Gallery and ""The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies"" by the British Museum. The largest public collection of her letters and drawings is the Leslie Linder Bequest and Leslie Linder Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In the United States, the largest public collections are those in the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University. In 2015 a manuscript for an unpublished book was discovered by Jo Hanks, a publisher at Penguin Random House Children's Books, in the Victoria and"
"of art and science; and the degradation of culture through economic exploitation. ""Gloucesterbook"" and its sequel ""Gloucestertide"" create a fiction-world out of Gloucester similar to the Wessex of Thomas Hardy. The introductory volume ""Prologos"" was published in 1999. The final volume of the tetralogy, ""Gloucestermas,"" was published by Fontis Press in 2010. Jonathan Bayliss Jonathan Bayliss (September 7, 1926 in Arlington, Massachusetts – April 15, 2009 in Gloucester, Massachusetts) was an American novelist and playwright who lived and wrote in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He was a close friend of poet Charles Olson after Olson's return to Gloucester in the late 1950s."
"Simpkin gives the tailor the twist to complete the work and the success of the waistcoat makes the tailor's fortune. In the summer of 1901, Potter was working on ""The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin"", but took time to develop a tale about a poor tailor she heard in the Gloucestershire home of her cousin Caroline Hutton probably in 1897. The tale was finished by Christmas 1901, and presented as a holiday gift to ten-year-old Freda Moore, the daughter of her former governess. The tale was based on a real world incident involving John Prichard (1877–1934), a Gloucester tailor commissioned to"
"Robert of Gloucester (historian) Robert of Gloucester (fl. c. 1260 – c. 1300) wrote a chronicle of British, English, and Norman history sometime in the mid- or late-thirteenth century. Little is known about Robert himself; the key reason for attributing the Chronicle to a person of this name is a mention in the continuation of the longer version that 'roberd / þat verst þis boc made' ('Robert / that first this book made', lines 11748-49) personally witnessed an eclipse that accompanied the Battle of Evesham (1265). The appellation 'of Gloucester' was added by early modern antiquarians on the basis of"
"John Taintor Foote John Taintor Foote (March 29, 1881 – January 28, 1950) was an American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter. Foote studied at Kenyon Military Academy, Gambier, Ohio. He began as a writer of sporting stories. His first story was published in ""The American Magazine"" in 1913. He wrote horse stories featuring the roguish track character Blister Jones, and the story upon which the Alfred Hitchcock film ""Notorious"" is loosely based. He also wrote or collaborated on five plays, among them the comedy ""Toby's Bow"" (1919) and the dramas ""Tight Britches"" (1934), and ""Julie the Great"" (1936). Foote"
"The Nine Tailors The Nine Tailors is a 1934 mystery novel by British writer Dorothy L. Sayers, her ninth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. Stranded after a car accident in the fenland village of Fenchurch St. Paul on New Year's Eve, Lord Peter Wimsey helps ring a nine-hour peal on the church bells overnight after William Thoday, one of the ringers, is struck down with influenza. Lady Thorpe, wife of Sir Henry, the local squire, dies the next morning and Wimsey hears how the family has been blighted by the theft 20 years previously of a valuable emerald necklace which was"
"in its entirety. Other fifteenth-century authors have been proposed, ranging from a contemporary poet to an Ecclesiast, but since even the exact dates of its composition are also debated it has been impossible for historians to definitively attribute the authorship to any known individual. The supposed author of the chronicle, William Gregory, was born in Mildenhall, Suffolk. He married three times, and had two daughters. In London, he trained as a skinner, and sold luxury furs to the household of King Henry VI. He lived in the parish of St Mary Aldermary, and was alderman of Cordwainer ward from 1435"
"In the British East India records consulted by Leanna Lee-Whitman, black paduasoys completely supplanted ""plain"" ones after 1761: George Washington commissioned a friend, Tench Tilghman, to purchase numerous household items, ""if ""great bargains"" are to be had"", from the cargo of a ship in the China trade that had docked at Baltimore and were to be auctioned in October 1785. Among his requests, if they could be had cheaply, were ""About 13 yds of good bla: paduasoy"". Beatrix Potter employed paduasoy to set the old-fashioned scene in ""The Tailor of Gloucester"", which begins, ""In the time of swords and periwigs"
"of Lancaster. He was the nation's power broker and in his time was the richest man in the kingdom second to the king. The Savoy was the most magnificent nobleman's house in England. It was famous for its owner's magnificent collection of tapestries, jewels, and other ornaments. Geoffrey Chaucer began writing ""The Canterbury Tales"" while working at the Savoy Palace as a clerk. During the Peasants' Revolt led by Wat Tyler in 1381, the rioters, who blamed John of Gaunt for the introduction of the poll tax that had precipitated the revolt, systematically demolished the Savoy and everything in it."
"around 1386/1388. Chaucer seems to have returned to the work a decade later to rewrite the prologue, but the latter text, which survives in only one manuscript, is generally considered inferior to the original. Tennyson used the poem as theme for his own poem ""A Dream of Fair Women"". Bibliography The Legend of Good Women The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem is the third longest of Chaucer's works, after ""The Canterbury Tales"" and ""Troilus and Criseyde"", and is possibly the first significant work in English to"
"The Nun's Priest's Tale The Nun's Priest's Tale (Middle English: ""the Nonnes Preestes Tale of the Cok and Hen, Chauntecleer and Pertelote"") is one of ""The Canterbury Tales"" by the Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Composed in the 1390s, the 626-line narrative poem is a beast fable and mock epic based on an incident in the Reynard cycle. The story of Chanticleer and the Fox became further popularised in Britain through this means. The prologue clearly links the story with the previous Monk's Tale, a series of short accounts of toppled despots, criminals and fallen heroes which prompts an interruption"
"The Story of the Weasel Published in 1976, The Story of the Weasel is author Carolyn Slaughter's debut novel. It won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize the following year. Published as Relations in the United States, it has been praised for its 'sensitive treatment of fraternal incest in Victorian England and for its subtle poetic prose'. The frame story is set in 1900 Cirencester as 30-year-old Catherine Roach is writing the story of her childhood in 1880s Wandsworth, when at the age of ten she and her brother Christopher, two years her senior, discover their late father's collection of pornography."
"The Merchant's Tale ""The Merchant's Tale"" () is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"". In it Chaucer subtly mocks antifeminist literature like that of Theophrastus ('Theofraste'). The tale also shows the influence of Boccaccio (""Decameron"": 7th day, 9th tale), Deschamps' """", ""Roman de la Rose"" by Guillaume de Lorris (translated into English by Chaucer), Andreas Capellanus, Statius and Cato. The tale is found in Persia in the Bahar Danush, in which the husband climbs a date tree instead of a pear tree. It could have arrived in Europe through the One Thousand and One Nights, or perhaps the version in"
"'So long the loyal counsellor and friend'/Of that Charles Reade whose coffin lies with hers/Was she his mistress?"" followed by a long imagined passage about their possible relationship. Charles Reade Charles Reade (8 June 1814 – 11 April 1884) was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for ""The Cloister and the Hearth"". Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring, and had at least four brothers. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, taking his B.A. in 1835, and became a fellow of his college. He was subsequently dean of arts and vice-president, taking"
"Pandosto Pandosto: The Triumph of Time is a prose romance written by the English author Robert Greene, first published in 1588. A later edition of 1607 was re-titled ""Dorastus and Fawnia"". Popular during the time of William Shakespeare, the work's plot was an inspiration for that of Shakespeare's play ""The Winter's Tale"". Greene, in turn, may have based the work on ""The Clerk's Tale"", one of ""The Canterbury Tales"" of Chaucer. Edward Chaney suggested that Robert Greene when writing ""Pandosto"" may have had in mind the Earl of Oxford's suspicions about the paternity of his daughter (granddaughter of Lord Burghley)"
"Good Women"", and ""Troilus and Criseyde"". He is best known today for ""The Canterbury Tales"". His work was crucial in legitimising the literary use of the Middle English vernacular at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin. Chaucer was born in London sometime around 1343, though the precise date and location remain unknown. His father and grandfather were both London vintners, and several previous generations had been merchants in Ipswich. His family name is derived from the French ""chausseur"", meaning ""shoemaker"". In 1324, his father John Chaucer was kidnapped by an aunt in the"
"Loue of Cassander, a Grecian Knight,"" 1595. and ""Flora's Fortune. The second part and finishing of the Fisher-mans Tale"". Pandosto Pandosto: The Triumph of Time is a prose romance written by the English author Robert Greene, first published in 1588. A later edition of 1607 was re-titled ""Dorastus and Fawnia"". Popular during the time of William Shakespeare, the work's plot was an inspiration for that of Shakespeare's play ""The Winter's Tale"". Greene, in turn, may have based the work on ""The Clerk's Tale"", one of ""The Canterbury Tales"" of Chaucer. Edward Chaney suggested that Robert Greene when writing ""Pandosto"" may"
"The Legend of Good Women The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem is the third longest of Chaucer's works, after ""The Canterbury Tales"" and ""Troilus and Criseyde"", and is possibly the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used throughout ""The Canterbury Tales"". This form of the heroic couplet would become a significant part of English literature no doubt inspired by Chaucer. The prologue describes how Chaucer is reprimanded by the god of love and his queen, Alceste,"
"first produced in 1835. A short story, 'Ginevra or The Old Oak Chest: A Christmas Story' by Susan E Wallace published in 1887 and another short story ""The Romance of Certain Old Clothes"" by Henry James published in 1868. The song is also played in Thomas Hardy's ""A Laodicean"", after the scene involving the capture of George Somerset's handkerchief from the tower. Kate Mosse reinterpreted the story in her 2013 short story collection ""The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales"". Film versions of the story include a 1904 production by the Clarendon Film Company, directed by Percy Stow; a 1923"
"The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales () is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. In 1386, Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of Peace and, in 1389, Clerk of the King's work. It was during these years that Chaucer began working on his most famous text, ""The Canterbury Tales"". The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together from London to Canterbury to visit"
"is scarcely probable, since that poem appears to have been written before 1235. The Laudian MS., however, seems to contain a later edition, and ascribes the poem to a Gregory who had dedicated it to a bishop of Winchester, and it is therefore possible that the writer may have been the reviser of the older poem. Gregory of Caergwent Gregory of Caergwent or Winchester (fl. 1270) was a British monk and historian. Gregory entered Gloucester Abbey, according to his own account, on 29 October 1237, and is stated to have lived there for 60 years. He wrote the annals of"
"his subsequent pardon in 1404 (available online from the British Library). Hotson's thesis, entitled ""Colfox vs Chauntecleer"", is that Chaucer's ""Nun's Priest's Tale"" is an allegory for the murder of Thomas of Woodstock by Nicholas Colfox and a coded accusation against both Colfox's employer, Thomas Mowbray and the latter's rival, Henry Bolingbroke. According to Hotson, Chauntecleer - the cockerel in the allegory - is described in colours unknown to any breed of cockerel but which coincide with Bolingbroke's coat of arms, as worn at his famous trial by combat against Mowbray. Scholars have criticised Hotson's theory by suggesting that Chauntecleer's"
"the endpapers because new characters hinting at future titles could be worked into the design at any time. Potter gave a copy of the book to her Chelsea tailor who, in turn, displayed it to a representative of the trade journal, ""The Tailor & Cutter"". The journal's review appeared on Christmas Eve 1903:[...] we think it is by far the prettiest story connected with tailoring we have ever read, and as it is full of that spirit of Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, we are not ashamed to confess that it brought the moisture to our eyes, as well"