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Frederica J. Turle
Frederica Jane Edith Turle (29 March 1880 – 14 November 1936) was a British author of juvenile fiction. Life and works She was born and grew up in Finchley, Middlesex. She married Lt Col Charles Bennett (d. 1932) on 2 October 1912. She is best known for her story ''The Gap in the Fence'' (1914) in the Red Nursery Series, illustrated by Watson Charlton, which is still in print. It is the story of a little girl who is the daughter of a Russian anarchist.''The Athenaeum,'' Part 2, J. Section, 1914, p.648 Her other works include ''The Squire's Grandchildren'' (1906), ''Jerry O'Shassenagh'' (n.d.), and ''The Miser's Well'' (1909). References External links * * **''The Gap in the Fence'' digitised a*New General Catalogue of Old Books and Author 20th-century British writers English children's writers People from Finchley 1880 births 1936 deaths {{UK-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finchley
Finchley () is a large district of north London, England, in the London Borough of Barnet. Finchley is on high ground, north of Charing Cross. Nearby districts include: Golders Green, Muswell Hill, Friern Barnet, Whetstone, Mill Hill and Hendon. It is predominantly a residential suburb, with three town centres: North Finchley, East Finchley and Finchley Church End (Finchley Central). Made up of four wards, the population of Finchley counted 65,812 as of 2011. History Finchley probably means "Finch's clearing" or "finches' clearing" in late Anglo-Saxon; the name was first recorded in the early 13th century. Finchley is not recorded in Domesday Book, but by the 11th century its lands were held by the Bishop of London. In the early medieval period the area was sparsely populated woodland, whose inhabitants supplied pigs and fuel to London. Extensive cultivation began about the time of the Norman conquest. By the 15th and 16th centuries the woods on the easter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watson Charlton
Watson Charlton (1872 - ?) was a British illustrator of children's books. He was born in Sunderland, Durham, the son of the painter John William Charlton (1848–1917). Selected works illustrated by Watson Charlton *Christopher Beck (Thomas Charles Bridges (1868–1944). ''The Brigand of the Air'' London:C. Arthur Pearson (1920) *Shiela E Braine. ''That Lucky Visit'' London: The Sunday School Union (1913) 12 illustrations. * W. E. Cule. ''Mr Crusoe's Island'' London: Sunday School Union (1914) *George Eliot. ''Silas Mariner ... and Scenes of Clerical life'' (1909) *Evelyn Everett-Green. ''Hilary Quest'' London: Pilgrim Press (1908) *Albert Lee. ''A King's Treachery - A Romance of the Huguenot Persecution'' (1922) *Robert Leighton. ''Dreadnoughts Of The Dogger: A Story of the War on the North Sea'' London: Ward Lock (1916) *Robert Leighton. ''The Kidnapped Regiment: a Story of 1745'' London:Pilgrim Press (1911) *Frank Mundell. ''Captain Cook: The Prince of Navigators'' London: An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Anarchist
Anarchism in Russia has its roots in the early mutual aid systems of the medieval republics and later in the popular resistance to the Tsarist autocracy and serfdom. Through the history of radicalism during the early 19th-century, anarchism developed out of the populist and nihilist movements' dissatisfaction with the government reforms of the time. The first Russian to identify himself as an anarchist was the revolutionary socialist Mikhail Bakunin, who became a founding figure of the modern anarchist movement within the International Workingmen's Association (IWA). In the context of the split within the IWA between the Marxists and the anarchists, the Russian Land and Liberty organization also split between a Marxist faction that supported political struggle and an anarchist faction that supported "propaganda of the deed", the latter of which went on to orchestrate the assassination of Alexander II. Specifically anarchist groups such as the Black Banner began to emerge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Children's Writers
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People From Finchley
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1880 Births
Year 188 (CLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the Roman Empire as the Year of the Consulship of Fuscianus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 941 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 188 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Publius Helvius Pertinax becomes pro-consul of Africa from 188 to 189. Japan * Queen Himiko (or Shingi Waō) begins her reign in Japan (until 248). Births * April 4 – Caracalla (or Antoninus), Roman emperor (d. 217) * Lu Ji (or Gongji), Chinese official and politician (d. 219) * Sun Shao, Chinese general of the Eastern Wu state (d. 241) Deaths * March 17 – Julian, pope and patriarch of Alexandria * Fa Zhen (or Gaoqing), Chinese scholar (b. AD 100) * Lucius Antistius Burrus, Roman politician (executed) * Ma Xian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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