Who is the author of The Maid of Buttermere and Time to Dance?
"Mary Robinson (Maid of Buttermere) Mary Robinson (1778 – 7 February 1837) was known as ""The Maid of Buttermere"" and is mentioned in William Wordsworth's ""The Prelude"". She is the subject of Melvyn Bragg's 1987 novel ""The Maid of Buttermere"", which was adapted into a play by Lisa Evans and premiered at Keswick's Theatre by the Lake in 2009. She was a shepherdess and the daughter of the landlord of the Fish Inn in the village of Buttermere in England's Lake District. She was married bigamously in 1802 to John Hatfield (c.1758–1803), who presented himself as ""Colonel Hope"". The marriage"
"Anthony Powell Anthony Dymoke Powell ( ; 21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work ""A Dance to the Music of Time"", published between 1951 and 1975. Powell's major work has remained in print continuously and has been the subject of TV and radio dramatisations. In 2008, ""The Times"" newspaper named Powell among their list of ""The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"". Powell was born in Westminster, Middlesex, the son of Philip Lionel William Powell and Maud Mary Wells-Dymoke. His father was an officer in the Welsh Regiment, while his"
"Rolling"", was published in 1983. Diaries Anthony Powell Anthony Dymoke Powell ( ; 21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work ""A Dance to the Music of Time"", published between 1951 and 1975. Powell's major work has remained in print continuously and has been the subject of TV and radio dramatisations. In 2008, ""The Times"" newspaper named Powell among their list of ""The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"". Powell was born in Westminster, Middlesex, the son of Philip Lionel William Powell and Maud Mary Wells-Dymoke. His father was an officer"
"Susan Jane Gilman Susan Jane Gilman (born October 22, 1964) is an American writer and novelist. She is the author of one novel, ""The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street"" (2014) and three non-fiction books: ""Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven"" (2009); ""Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress"" (2005); and ""Kiss My Tiara"" (2001). Gilman was born in New York City and grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City and was a student of Frank McCourt. Gilman attended Brown University where she got a B.A. in 1986. She"
"Patty Dann Patty Dann (born October 30, 1953) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer, perhaps best known for ""Mermaids"", a coming-of-age novel about a teenage girl which was published in 1986. In 1990, it was made into a movie starring Cher, Winona Ryder, Bob Hoskins and Christina Ricci. Her most recent novel is ""Starfish, ""which is a sequel to ""Mermaids."" Her newest book is ""The Butterfly Hours: Transforming Memories into Memoir,"" which has been chosen by Poets & Writers as One of the Best Books on Writing. ""Sweet & Crazy"" (2003) is a novel about a 39-year-old woman who"
"E. T. A. Hoffmann Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (commonly abbreviated as E. T. A. Hoffmann; born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 177625 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's famous opera ""The Tales of Hoffmann"", in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella ""The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"", on which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet ""The Nutcracker"" is based. The ballet ""Coppélia"" is based on two other stories that"
"Jenia Graman Jenia (Jean) Graman, nee Almuth Gittermann (12 June 1909 - 2003) was a Russian-born dancer and translator, best known for her translation of Kurban Said's novel ""Ali and Nino"" which she translated from the original German into English. When her translation came out in 1970, it became the basis for translations of the novel into many other languages around the world. She also translated another novel by Said, ""The Girl from the Golden Horn"". Graman worked as a dancer in musicals in Nazi Germany. She emigrated to Britain in the 1950s and was naturalised as a British subject"
"NYC.” In 2008, she married Michael Hill, a journalist. She has one son and two stepsons. Patty Dann Patty Dann (born October 30, 1953) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer, perhaps best known for ""Mermaids"", a coming-of-age novel about a teenage girl which was published in 1986. In 1990, it was made into a movie starring Cher, Winona Ryder, Bob Hoskins and Christina Ricci. Her most recent novel is ""Starfish, ""which is a sequel to ""Mermaids."" Her newest book is ""The Butterfly Hours: Transforming Memories into Memoir,"" which has been chosen by Poets & Writers as One of the"
"A. R. Gurney Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr. (November 1, 1930 – June 13, 2017), as pen name A. R. Gurney (sometimes credited as Pete Gurney) was an American playwright, novelist and academic. He is known for works including ""The Dining Room"" (1982), ""Sweet Sue"" (1986/7), and ""The Cocktail Hour"" (1988), and for his Pulitzer Prize nominated play ""Love Letters"". His series of plays about upper-class WASP life in contemporary America have been called ""penetratingly witty studies of the WASP ascendancy in retreat."" Gurney was born on November 1, 1930 in Buffalo, New York to Albert Ramsdell Gurney, Sr. (1896-1977), who"
"subtitle, “Palindrome.” Afternoon Men Afternoon Men is the first published novel by the English writer Anthony Powell. In its characters and themes it anticipates some of the ground Powell would cover in ""A Dance to the Music of Time"", a twelve-volume cycle that spans much of the 20th century and is widely considered Powell's masterpiece. Published in 1931, it focuses on the romantic adventures and discontents of one William Atwater, together with a circle of his friends and acquaintances, in London around the end of the 1920s. Atwater, a museum clerk, pursues a never-fulfilled relationship with Susan Nunnery throughout the"
"A Dance to the Music of Time A Dance to the Music of Time is a 12-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell, inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin and published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim. The story is an often comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century. The sequence is narrated by Nick Jenkins in the form of his reminiscences. At the beginning of the first volume, Nick falls into a reverie while watching snow descending on a coal"
"Tunes for Bears to Dance To Tunes for Bears to Dance To is a young adult novel written by American author Robert Cormier that discusses themes of morality from the perspective of an 11-year-old named Henry. This novel also has many metaphors and ties to the Holocaust. This book is very loyal to Robert Cormier's style as it is very short and haunting. It is also in his vein of younger boys discovering darker sides of life and it is left unclear whether the protagonist did the right thing or not. The title originates from a line in Gustave Flaubert's"
"that sustains the Dance"" Of the characters mentioned above, the narrator (Nick), Members—a poet as well as a critic, Quiggin and Barnby all appear or are quoted in ""At Lady Molly's"". At Lady Molly's At Lady Molly's is the fourth volume in Anthony Powell's twelve-novel sequence, ""A Dance to the Music of Time"". Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1957, ""At Lady Molly's"" is set in England of the mid-1930s and is essentially a comedy of manners, but in the background, the rise of Hitler and of worldwide Fascism are not ignored. The driving theme of ""At Lady"
"At Lady Molly's At Lady Molly's is the fourth volume in Anthony Powell's twelve-novel sequence, ""A Dance to the Music of Time"". Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1957, ""At Lady Molly's"" is set in England of the mid-1930s and is essentially a comedy of manners, but in the background, the rise of Hitler and of worldwide Fascism are not ignored. The driving theme of ""At Lady Molly's"" is married life; marriages – as practised or mooted – among the narrator's (Nick Jenkins) acquaintances in bohemian society and the landed classes are pondered. Meanwhile, the career moves of"
"himself, who reviewed all of the early installments of the series, complained of 'a sad disappointment ... only three pages of [Kenneth] Widmerpool.' Casanova's Chinese Restaurant Casanova's Chinese Restaurant is a novel by Anthony Powell (). It forms the fifth volume of the twelve-volume sequence ""A Dance to the Music of Time"", and was originally published in 1960. Many of the events of the novel were included in the television adaptation broadcast on the United Kingdom's Channel 4 in 1997, comprising part of the second of four episodes. There was also an earlier, more comprehensive, BBC Radio adaptation. As with"
"Swing Time (novel) Swing Time is a novel by British writer Zadie Smith, released in November 2016. The story takes place in London, New York and West Africa, and focuses on two girls who can tap dance. Beginning in 2008, the novel tells the story of two mixed-race, black and white, girls who meet in 1982 in a tap class in London. The unnamed narrator, who has a white, working-class father, and a mother of Jamaican descent is immediately drawn to the precocious Tracey, who has a white mother and a black father in prison, as they have the same"
"Jessie Burton Jessica Kathryn Burton (born 17 August 1982) is an English author and actress. , she has published three novels, ""The Miniaturist"", ""The Muse"" and ""The Restless Girls"". ""The Muse"" has been published in 36 languages. Both were ""Sunday Times"" no.1 bestsellers, ""New York Times"" bestsellers, and Radio 4's ""Books At Bedtime."" Her short stories have been published in ""Harpers Bazaar US"" and ""Stylist."" Burton is also a non-fiction writer. Her essays have been published in ""The Wall Street Journal"", ""The Independent"", ""Vogue"", ""Elle"", ""Red"", ""Grazia"", ""Lonely Planet Traveller"" and ""The Spectator"". Burton studied at Lady Margaret School, Brasenose"
"The Nutcracker The Nutcracker ( / ""Shchelkunchik, Balet-feyeriya"" ; ) is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Op. 71). The libretto is adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann's story ""The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"". Although the original production was not a success, the 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet was. However, the complete ""Nutcracker"" has enjoyed enormous popularity since the late 1960s and is now performed by countless ballet companies, primarily during the Christmas season, especially in North America. Major American ballet companies generate around"
"float"". ""The Irish Times"" critic John Boyne was much harsher, criticizing the novel for ""lacking a consistent narrative drive, an interesting voice or a compelling point of view"". Swing Time (novel) Swing Time is a novel by British writer Zadie Smith, released in November 2016. The story takes place in London, New York and West Africa, and focuses on two girls who can tap dance. Beginning in 2008, the novel tells the story of two mixed-race, black and white, girls who meet in 1982 in a tap class in London. The unnamed narrator, who has a white, working-class father, and"
"wild, funny, poetic exhalation that sparkles and hoots and flies’[1] First published by William Heinemann, London, 1985. . First US edition published by EP Dutton 1986. Reprinted in the UK by the Do Not Press 1997. Dancing with Mermaids Dancing With Mermaids is the second novel by the English writer Miles Gibson. An erotic exercise in magic realism set in the secluded fishing village of Rams Horn, once a fashionable Regency spa, at the mouth of the River Sheep, somewhere on the Dorset coast. In the novel Rams Horn is described by the author as ‘a memory, a lost cause,"
"The Feast of Lupercal The Feast of Lupercal is a novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore. It was first published in the United States in 1957, by Boston publisher Little Brown, and in the United Kingdom in 1958 by London publisher Andre Deutsch. In 1969 a paperback edition was published by Panther Books with the title A Moment of Love. Set in Belfast in the 1950s, the novel tells the story of a 37-year-old Catholic male teacher, Diarmuid Devine, who is single and sexually inexperienced. When he overhears a colleague refer to him as “that old woman”, he understands"
"Kenneth Widmerpool Kenneth Widmerpool is a fictional character in Anthony Powell's novel sequence ""A Dance to the Music of Time"", a 12-volume account of upper-class and bohemian life in Britain between 1920 and 1970. Regarded by critics as one of the more memorable characters of 20th century fiction, Widmerpool is the antithesis of the sequence's narrator-hero Nicholas Jenkins. Initially presented as a comic, even pathetic figure, he becomes increasingly formidable, powerful and ultimately sinister as the novels progress. He is successful in business, in the army and in politics, and is awarded a life peerage. His only sphere of failure"
"The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast is a poem by William Roscoe, written in 1802, and telling the story of a party for insects and other small animals. Two anonymous sequels were ""The Peacock 'At Home' ""and ""The Lion's Masquerade and the Elephant's Champetre"", both initially credited to ""A Lady"", and describing similar parties for birds and large mammals. ""The Peacock 'At Home' ""was very popular and the 1809 edition revealled the author to be Catherine Ann Dorset The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast is also the title of a 1973"
"Afternoon Men Afternoon Men is the first published novel by the English writer Anthony Powell. In its characters and themes it anticipates some of the ground Powell would cover in ""A Dance to the Music of Time"", a twelve-volume cycle that spans much of the 20th century and is widely considered Powell's masterpiece. Published in 1931, it focuses on the romantic adventures and discontents of one William Atwater, together with a circle of his friends and acquaintances, in London around the end of the 1920s. Atwater, a museum clerk, pursues a never-fulfilled relationship with Susan Nunnery throughout the novel, while"
"Ritual Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, July 29, 1956) is an Indian-American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, ""Arranged Marriage"" won an American Book Award in 1995, and two of her novels (""The Mistress of Spices"" and ""Sister of My Heart"") as well as a short story ""The Word Love"" were adapted into films. ""Mistress of Spices"" was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Currently, ""Sister of My Heart,"" ""Oleander Girl,"" "","" and ""One Amazing Thing"" have all been optioned"
"Catherine Ann Dorset Catherine Ann Turner Dorset (1752 – 1834) was a British author of poems for children. She had a successful career as a writer, which surprised many at the time as she was a woman. Catherine Ann anonymously collaborated on several works with her sister, Charlotte Smith, which were Catherine Ann’s first publications. Her more well known works were published after she took on writing as a career, following the death of her husband (Michael Dorset). Catherine Ann Turner Dorset's most well known works are: ""The Peacock 'At Home': A sequel to the Butterfly's Ball, The Lion’s Masquerade:"
"In the theatre, in February 1969 he designed the graphics for controversial Jane Arden play ""Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven"" at the London Arts Laboratory, Drury Lane. He is possibly best known, however, for the picture book ""The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper Feast"" (1973), a series of illustrations of anthropomorphic insects and other creatures, which he created in collaboration with Harry Willock, William Plomer wrote the accompanying verses. This was based on William Roscoe's poem of the same name, but was inspired when Aldridge read that John Tenniel had told Lewis Carroll it was impossible to draw a"
"on 30 September 1960. She was described then as a commercial artist. In 1967 she sought permission from the publisher of Ali and Nino to translate the novel. She died in London in early 2003. Jenia Graman Jenia (Jean) Graman, nee Almuth Gittermann (12 June 1909 - 2003) was a Russian-born dancer and translator, best known for her translation of Kurban Said's novel ""Ali and Nino"" which she translated from the original German into English. When her translation came out in 1970, it became the basis for translations of the novel into many other languages around the world. She also"
"novel has also garnered several honors and awards, including: Booklist Editor's Choice Best Books of the Year, Booklinks Best New Books for the Classroom, New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, American Library Association YALSA Best Books of the Year, National Council of Social Studies CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book, Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice, Children's Literature Network Top 25 books of 2007-2008, and a Booksense Notable citation and a Publishers Weekly Flying Start highlight. Padma Venkatraman's latest novel, A TIME TO DANCE, was released in May 2014 by Nancy Paulsen Books (an imprint of Penguin Random"
"Larry Buttrose Larry Philip Buttrose (born 16 December 1952) is an Australian writer, journalist and academic. He is the ghostwriter of the Saroo Brierley memoir ""A Long Way Home"" (adapted for the screen as the major international feature film ""Lion""). He is also the author of the novels ""The Maze of the Muse"" and ""Sweet Sentence"", and the travel books ""The King Neptune Day & Night Club"", and ""Cafe Royale"" (also published as ""The Blue Man""). For the stage he co-wrote the hit musical ""Hot Shoe Shuffle"", as well ""Kurtz"", his stage adaptation of ""Heart of Darkness"", and a stage"
"Dramatists Guild of America. Rebecca Gilman Rebecca Gilman (born 1965 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American playwright. She attended Middlebury College, graduated from Birmingham-Southern College, and earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa. Gilman was the first American playwright to win an ""Evening Standard"" Award. She serves on the advisory board for Chicago Dramatists. She has received the 2008 Harper Lee Award. Her most widely known works are ""Spinning Into Butter"", a play that addresses political correctness and racial identity, and ""Boy Gets Girl"", which was included in ""Time Magazine""'s List"
"Dani Shapiro Dani Shapiro (born April 10, 1962) is an American writer who is the author of five novels and the best-selling memoirs ""Hourglass"", ""Slow Motion"" and ""Devotion"". She has also written for magazines such as ""The New Yorker"", ""The Oprah Magazine"", ""Vogue"", and ""ELLE"". Born Daneile Joyce Ellen Shapiro, she legally changed her name to Dani in 2017. Shapiro attended the Pingry School, a prep school in New Jersey, then Sarah Lawrence College, where she was influenced by Grace Paley, who was one of her teachers. Shapiro has also written for the screen, having adapted Oscar Wilde's ""The Happy"
"Robert L. Freedman Robert L. Freedman (born July 27, 1957) is an American screenwriter and dramatist. He is best known for his teleplays for ""Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"" (1997) and """" (2001), and for his Tony-winning book and lyrics of ""A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder"" (2014). Freedman attended Los Alamitos High School, where he was the editor of the school’s newspaper. That’s where he met another influential figure in his life, a journalism teacher named Margaret Hall. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He holds Masters of"