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"Toff"" and ""Hammer the Toff"" (both 1952); as well as BBC Radio adaptations starring Terence Alexander, ""The Toff and the Runaway Bride"" (1975) and ""The Toff on the Farm"" (1977). The Toff In the series of adventure novels by John Creasey, the Toff is the nickname of the Honourable Richard Rollison, an upper-class crime sleuth. Creasey published almost 60 Toff adventures, beginning with ""Introducing the Toff"" in 1938 and continuing through ""The Toff and the Crooked Copper"", published in 1977, four years after the author's death. Rollison is in many ways similar to Simon Templar, although Creasey's other character The"
"Lady Molly of Scotland Yard Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was written by Baroness Orczy, who is best known as the creator of ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"", but who also invented two turn-of-the-century detectives in ""The Old Man in the Corner"" and ""Lady Molly of Scotland Yard"". First published in 1910, Orczy's female detective was the precursor of the lay sleuth who relies on brains rather than brawn. The book soon became very popular, with three editions appearing in the first year. As well as being"
"classics Rudyard Kipling, A. A. Milne (the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh), Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton; the controversial D. H. Lawrence; the modernist Virginia Woolf; the satirist Evelyn Waugh; the prophetic novelist George Orwell; the popular novelists W. Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene; the crime writer Agatha Christie (the best-selling novelist of all time); Ian Fleming (the creator of James Bond); the poets T.S. Eliot, Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes; the fantasy writers J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and J. K. Rowling; the graphic novelists Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman. Scotland's contributions include the detective writer Arthur Conan Doyle"
"Ruthven Todd Ruthven Campbell Todd (pronounced 'riven') (14 June 1914 – 11 October 1978) was a Scottish poet, artist and novelist, best known as an editor of the works of William Blake, and expert on his printing techniques. During the 1940s he also wrote detective fiction under the pseudonym R. T. Campbell. Born in Edinburgh, Todd was was the eldest of the ten children of Walker Todd (an architect) and Christian Todd (neé Craik). He was educated at Dalhousie Preparatory School, Fettes College and Edinburgh College of Art. His short spell at art college convinced him that he had no"
"(the creator of Sherlock Holmes), romantic literature by Sir Walter Scott, the children's writer J. M. Barrie, the epic adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson and the celebrated poet Robert Burns. More recently the modernist and nationalist Hugh MacDiarmid and Neil M. Gunn contributed to the Scottish Renaissance. A more grim outlook is found in Ian Rankin's stories and the psychological horror-comedy of Iain Banks. Scotland's capital, Edinburgh, was UNESCO's first worldwide City of Literature. Britain's oldest known poem, ""Y Gododdin"", was composed in ""Yr Hen Ogledd"" (""The Old North""), most likely in the late 6th century. It was written in"
"Michael Kenyon Michael F. Kenyon (26 June 1931 – 29 May 2005) was a British author of crime novels. Author of more than 20 humorous mystery novels, he was one of the first in the field of spoof-espionage story telling, but perhaps better known for the Superintendent O'Malley, and latterly Inspector Henry Peckover series of books. Peckover was especially successful, fondly known as ""The Bard Of The Yard"". He was also a regular contributor to Gourmet Magazine, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. Kenyon was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, in 1931. Educated at Quaker's Schools both in Yorkshire"
"nineteenth century, a number of Scottish-born authors achieved international reputations, including Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle, whose ""Sherlock Holmes"" stories helped found the tradition of detective fiction. In the last two decades of the century the ""kailyard school"" (cabbage patch) depicted Scotland in a rural and nostalgic fashion, often seen as a ""failure of nerve"" in dealing with the rapid changes that had swept across Scotland in the industrial revolution. Figures associated with the movement include Ian Maclaren, S. R. Crockett and J. M. Barrie, best known for his creation of Peter Pan, which helped develop the genre"
"Bangour (1704–54), socialite Alison Rutherford Cockburn (1712–94), and poet and playwright James Thompson's (1700–48), most famous for the nature poetry of his ""Seasons"". Tobias Smollett (1721–71) was a poet, essayist, satirist and playwright, but is best known for his picaresque novels, such as ""The Adventures of Roderick Random"" (1748) and ""The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle"" (1751) for which he is often seen as Scotland's first novelist. His work would be a major influence on later novelists such as Thackeray and Dickens. The early eighteenth century was also a period of innovation in Gaelic vernacular poetry. Major figures included Rob Donn"
"working in Scots and English. These included William Hamilton of Gilbertfield (c. 1665–1751), Robert Crawford (1695–1733), Alexander Ross (1699–1784), the Jacobite William Hamilton of Bangour (1704–54), socialite Alison Rutherford Cockburn (1712–94), and poet and playwright James Thompson's (1700–48), most famous for the nature poetry of his ""Seasons"". Tobias Smollett (1721–71) was a poet, essayist, satirist and playwright, but is best known for his picaresque novels, such as ""The Adventures of Roderick Random"" (1748) and ""The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle"" (1751) for which he is often seen as Scotland's first novelist. His work would be a major influence on later novelists"
"Tom Stoppard Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as ""Arcadia"", ""The Coast of Utopia"", ""Every Good Boy Deserves Favour"", ""Professional Foul"", ""The Real Thing"", ""The Invention of Love"", ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"". He co-wrote the screenplays for ""Brazil"", ""The Russia House"", and ""Shakespeare in Love"", and has received an Academy Award and four Tony Awards. His work covers the themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom, often delving into the deeper philosophical thematics"
"children, Roald Dahl became one of the best selling authors of the 20th century, and his best-loved children's novels include ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", ""Matilda"", ""James and the Giant Peach"", ""The Witches"", ""Fantastic Mr Fox"" and ""The BFG"". Noted writers in the field of comic books are Neil Gaiman, and Alan Moore, while Gaiman also produces graphic novels. English literature ""See also: British literature"" This article is focused on English-language literature rather than the literature of England, so that it includes writers from Scotland, Wales, the Crown dependencies, and the whole of Ireland, as well as literature in English"
"William McIlvanney William McIlvanney (25 November 1936 – 5 December 2015) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He was known as Gus by friends and acquaintances. McIlvanney was a champion of gritty yet poetic literature; his works ""Laidlaw"", ""The Papers of Tony Veitch"", and ""Walking Wounded"" are all known for their portrayal of Glasgow in the 1970s. He is regarded as ""the father of 'Tartan Noir’"" and as Scotland's Camus. McIlvanney was born in Kilmarnock on 25 November 1936, the youngest of four children of a former miner, and attended school at Kilmarnock Academy. He went on"
"found the tradition of detective fiction. In the last two decades of the century the ""kailyard school"" (cabbage patch) depicted Scotland in a rural and nostalgic fashion, often seen as a ""failure of nerve"" in dealing with the rapid changes that had swept across Scotland in the industrial revolution. Figures associated with the movement include Ian Maclaren (1850–1907), S. R. Crockett (1859–1914) and most famously J. M. Barrie (1860–1937), best known for his creation of Peter Pan, which helped develop the genre of fantasy. Also important in the development of fantasy was the work of George MacDonald (1824–1905) whose produced"
"playing fields, with Barrie bowling a few balls to Haig. He served as Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh from 1930 to 1937. J. M. Barrie Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (; 9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included"
"Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley Robert Lionel Archibald Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley, () (12 November 1926 – 14 August 2016) was an English barrister and former Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. He was the original co-author of Goff & Jones, the leading authoritative English law textbook on restitution and unjust enrichment. He subsequently practiced law as a commercial barrister and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1967. He was appointed a High Court judge in 1975, a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1982 and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 1986. He was appointed High Steward of"
"Geoffrey Burgon Geoffrey Alan Burgon (15 July 194121 September 2010) was a British composer best known for his television and film scores. Among his most recognisable works are ""Monty Python's Life of Brian"" for film, and ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"" and ""Brideshead Revisited"" for television, the latter two earning Ivor Novello Awards in 1979 and 1981 respectively. He also won BAFTAs for his themes for the remake of ""The Forsyte Saga"" and ""Longitude"". Burgon also achieved success and a serious following with vocal, orchestral, concert and stage works. Burgon was born in Hambledon, Hampshire in 1941, and taught himself the"
"Geoffrey Burgon Geoffrey Alan Burgon (15 July 194121 September 2010) was a British composer best known for his television and film scores. Among his most recognisable works are ""Monty Python's Life of Brian"" for film, and ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"" and ""Brideshead Revisited"" for television, the latter two earning Ivor Novello Awards in 1979 and 1981 respectively. He also won BAFTAs for his themes for the remake of ""The Forsyte Saga"" and ""Longitude"". Burgon also achieved success and a serious following with vocal, orchestral, concert and stage works. Burgon was born in Hambledon, Hampshire in 1941, and taught himself the"
"Colonel March of Scotland Yard Colonel March of Scotland Yard is a 1950s British television series based on author John Dickson Carr's (aka Carter Dickson) fictional detective Colonel March from his book ""The Department of Queer Complaints"" (1940). Carr was a mystery author who specialised in locked-room whodunnits and other 'impossible' crimes: murder mysteries that seemed to defy possibility. The stories of the television series followed in the same vein with Detective March solving cases that baffle Scotland Yard and the British police. The department itself is sometimes referred to as ""D3"". Boris Karloff starred as Colonel March. The series"
"imaginative children"". Some examples of alterations made by Bowdler's edition: Prominent modern literary figures such as Michiko Kakutani (in the New York Times) and William Safire (in his book, ""How Not to Write"") have accused Bowdler of changing Lady Macbeth's famous ""Out, damned spot!"" line in ""Macbeth"" to ""Out, crimson spot!"" But Bowdler did not do that. Thomas Bulfinch and Stephen Bulfinch did, in their 1865 edition of Shakespeare's works. Thomas Bowdler Thomas Bowdler, LRCP, FRS (; 11 July 1754 – 24 February 1825) was an English physician best known for publishing ""The Family Shakspeare"", an expurgated edition of William"
"Barrie (1860–1937), best known for his creation of Peter Pan, which helped develop the genre of fantasy. Also important in the development of fantasy was the work of George MacDonald (1824–1905) whose produced children's novels, including ""The Princess and the Goblin"" (1872) and ""At the Back of the North Wind"" (1872), realistic novels of Scottish life, but also ""Phantastes: A Fairie Romance for Men and Women"" (1858) and later ""Lilith: A Romance"" (1895), which would be an important influence on the work of both C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Scottish ""national drama"" emerged in the early 1800s,"
"Conan Doyle, whose ""Sherlock Holmes"" stories helped found the tradition of detective fiction. In the last two decades of the century the ""kailyard school"" (cabbage patch) depicted Scotland in a rural and nostalgic fashion, often seen as a ""failure of nerve"" in dealing with the rapid changes that had swept across Scotland in the industrial revolution. Figures associated with the movement include Ian Maclaren, S. R. Crockett and J. M. Barrie, best known for his creation of Peter Pan, which helped develop the genre of fantasy, as did the work of George MacDonald. Scottish ""national drama"" emerged in the early"
"his plays, his novels, his poems, his short history of the Catholic faith in Scotland, his many book reviews, his moving little volume of religious meditations. He coined the term ""Balmorality"" to describe the cultural manifestations of Scotland's accommodation with the British Empire. In 1951, he wrote ""Living Traditions of Scotland"", a booklet published on behalf of the Council of Industrial Design Scottish Committee to accompany the Living Traditions exhibition of architecture and crafts held in Edinburgh as part of the Festival of Britain. George Scott-Moncrieff George Scott-Moncrieff (1910, Edinburgh – 1974, Peeblesshire) was a Scottish novelist, playwright, poet, journalist,"
"Sir Wilfrid Lawson he published ""Cartoons in Rhyme and Line"" (1905). Frequently grafting his ideas onto subjects taken freely from ""Uncle Remus"", ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"", and the works of Dickens and Shakespeare, Gould used these literary vehicles with extraordinary dexterity and point, but with a satire that was not unkind and with a vigour from which bitterness, virulence and cynicism were notably absent. He was knighted in 1906. Unpublished manuscripts and biographical material are in the House of Commons Library historical collections, kept in the House of Lords Record Office. Carruthers Gould was responsible for designing 11 Toby jugs"
"English Bards and Scotch Reviewers English Bards and Scotch Reviewers is an 1809 satirical poem written by Lord Byron published by James Cawthorn in London. It was first published, anonymously, in March 1809, and a second, expanded edition followed in 1809, with Byron identified as the author. The opening parodies the first satire of Juvenal. Byron published his first book of poetry, ""Hours of Idleness"", in 1807. It received a brutal, scathing review by Henry Brougham, published anonymously in the ""Edinburgh Review"". That review is a classic of humiliating criticism, often published with Byron's works. Destructive as it seemed, it"
"fungi, and was a knowledgeable amateur mycologist. He was also a highly skilled illustrator of wild flowers and fungi. He made some money from selling his drawings, but most were given away to friends. From his teenage years and throughout his life, Todd was a chronic alcoholic. He underwent treatment for addiction in 1965, but this was only partially successful. He was also a chain-smoker and suffered from frequent bouts of pulmonary illness. Ruthven Todd Ruthven Campbell Todd (pronounced 'riven') (14 June 1914 – 11 October 1978) was a Scottish poet, artist and novelist, best known as an editor of"
"J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works ""The Hobbit"", ""The Lord of the Rings"", and ""The Silmarillion"". He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, from 1945 to 1959. He was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis—they were both"
"Robert McLellan Robert McLellan OBE (1907–1985) was a Scottish dramatist, poet and writer of the ""Linmill Stories"", working principally in the Scots language. His plays were generally popular comedies with exceptionally well-realised historical settings, including most notably ""Toom Byres"", ""Jamie the Saxt"", ""Torwatletie"", ""The Flouers o Edinburgh"" and ""The Hypocrite"". He also wrote works of dramatic verse such as ""The Carlin Moth"". His ""Linmill"" cycle of short stories, collected posthumously in 1990, are counted with Lorimer’s Bible as being among some of the most important Twentieth Century prose in Scots. McLellan was born in Lanarkshire, grew up in Milngavie and"
"explores the medium of language and the tension between native dialect (in his case, that of working-class Leeds) and acquired language, and Simon Armitage. Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) has been considered to be among the most distinguished English poets of his generation, Charles Tomlinson (1927–2015) is another important English poet of an older generation, though ""since his first publication in 1951, has built a career that has seen more notice in the international scene than in his native England. Roald Dahl is a prominent author of children's fantasy novels, like ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" in 1964, which are often inspired"
"""Dangerous Crossing"" (1953). ""The Emperor's Snuffbox"" was filmed as ""That Woman Opposite"" (1957), and ""La chambre ardente"" (1962) was a loose adaptation of ""The Burning Court"". Various Carr stories formed the basis for episodes of television series, particularly those without recurring characters such as ""General Motors Presents"". During 1956, the television series Colonel March of Scotland Yard, featuring Boris Karloff as Colonel March, was based on Carr's character and his stories and was broadcast for 26 episodes. John Dickson Carr John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published"
"Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Ford (born Ford Hermann Hueffer ( ); 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, ""The English Review"" and ""The Transatlantic Review"", were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. Ford is now remembered for his novels ""The Good Soldier"" (1915), the ""Parade's End"" tetralogy (1924–28) and ""The Fifth Queen"" trilogy (1906–08). ""The Good Soldier"" is frequently included among the great literature of the 20th century, including the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, ""The Observer""′s ""100 Greatest Novels of All Time"", and ""The Guardian""′s"
"Pension in 1968 for ""services to literature in Scotland"" and received the Order of the British Empire in 1978. He died in 1985 and is buried on the Isle of Arran. Unless indicated otherwise, the titles in this list refer to full-length stage plays with details of first production in brackets. Robert McLellan Robert McLellan OBE (1907–1985) was a Scottish dramatist, poet and writer of the ""Linmill Stories"", working principally in the Scots language. His plays were generally popular comedies with exceptionally well-realised historical settings, including most notably ""Toom Byres"", ""Jamie the Saxt"", ""Torwatletie"", ""The Flouers o Edinburgh"" and ""The"
"Gideon's Wrath ""Gideon's Wrath' is the thirteenth in a series of police procedural novels by John Creasey writing as J.J. Marric. Published in 1967, it centres on Commander George Gideon of the C.I.D., Scotland Yard. ‘Gideon’s Wrath’ sees Gideon wrestling with several major crimes, as well as debating who to recommend to the Commissioner as his new Deputy Commander; Hobbs or Lemaitre? Attacks are being mounted with explosives on places of worship throughout London. The Dean of St Ludd’s approaches Gideon with his suspicions and a plan of action is formulated. As many police as can be spared are posted"
"illustrating 10 days before his death in February 1963. Charles Folkard Charles James Folkard (6 April 1878 – 26 February 1963) was an English illustrator and comics artist. He worked as a conjuror before becoming a prolific illustrator of children’s books. In 1915, he created Teddy Tail, a popular cartoon character who ran in the ""Daily Mail"" newspapers for decades. Folkard is well known for his work on ""The Arabian Nights"", ""Grimms' Fairy Tales"", ""Aesop's Fables"", and ""Pinocchio"". Folkard was born in Lewisham, south London in 1878. He worked for a period of time as a conjuror after attending a"