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Rosamond
Rosamond is a feminine given name, which may refer to: People *Rosamond Carr (1912–2006), American humanitarian and author *Rosamund Clifford (before 1150 – c. 1176), English mistress of King Henry II * Rosamond Langbridge (1880–1964), Irish novelist, playwright and poet *Rosamond Lehmann (1901–1990), British novelist *Rosamond Marshall (1902–1957), American novelist *Rosamond McKitterick (born 1949), British medieval historian *R. J. Mitchell (author) (born 1902), English author and archivist *Rosamond Pinchot (1904–1938), American socialite and actress *Rosamond Praeger (1867–1954), Irish artist, sculptor and writer *Rosamond Royal, pen name of Jeanne Hines (born 1922), American writer *Rosamond Smith, a pen name of Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938), American author *Rose Wilkinson (1885–1968), Canadian politician * Rosamond "Roz" Young (1912 - 2005), American author, educator and historian Fictional characters *the title character of ''The Complaint of Rosamond'', by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosamond Lehmann
Rosamond Nina Lehmann (3 February 1901 – 12 March 1990) was an English novelist and translator. Her first novel, '' Dusty Answer'' (1927), was a '' succès de scandale''; she subsequently became established in the literary world and intimate with members of the Bloomsbury set. Her novel '' The Ballad and the Source'' received particular critical acclaim. Early life Rosamond Lehmann was born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, the second of four children to Rudolph Chambers Lehmann (1856–1929) and his American wife, Alice Mary Davis (1873–1956), from New England. Rosamond's father was a Liberal MP from 1906-1910, founder of '' Granta'' magazine and editor of the '' Daily News''. Because of this, Rosamond grew up in an affluent, well-educated, and well-known family; the American playwright Owen Davis was Rosamond's cousin, and her great-grandfather Robert Chambers founded Chambers Dictionary.Introduction to Virago Press edition, publ. 2000, Her great-uncle was the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosamond Marshall
Rosamond Marshall (October 17, 1902 – November 13, 1957) was an American novelist.http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/ngcoba/ma3.htm, New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors, Retrieved August 27, 2010. She wrote historical romances for adult and youth readers during the 1940s and 1950s, and two of her novels, ''Kitty'' and ''The Bixby Girls'', were made into motion pictures. Early life Marshall was born Rosamond van der Zee Botsford on October 17, 1893, New York City, New York, the daughter of Charles and Florence (née Topping Botsford). Career Her first published novel in English, ''None But the Brave, A Story of Holland'' (1942), for young people, won the ''New York Herald Tribune'' Spring Book Award. Rosamond Marshall's novels for young people were overshadowed by the success of her historical romances for adults. The first of these, ''Kitty'', set the pattern for a continuing series of novels which had sales (in paperback reprints) ranging from a million and a hal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Daniel
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) was an English poet, playwright and historian in the late-Elizabethan and early- Jacobean eras. He was an innovator in a wide range of literary genres. His best-known works are the sonnet cycle ''Delia'', the epic poem ''The Civil Wars Between the Houses of Lancaster and York'', the dialogue in verse ''Musophilus'', and the essay on English poetry ''A Defense of Rhyme''. He was considered one of the preeminent authors of his time and his works had a significant influence on contemporary writers, including William Shakespeare. Daniel's writings continued to influence authors for centuries after his death, especially the Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. C. S. Lewis called Daniel "the most interesting man of letters" whom the sixteenth century produced in England. Life and literary career Early life, education and relationship with John Florio Little is known about Samuel Daniel's early life. Biographer Thomas Fuller in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nate The Great
''Nate the Great'' is a series of 30 children's literature, children's detective stories written by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat featuring the eponymous boy detective, Nate the Great. Sharmat and illustrator Marc Simont inaugurated the series in 1972 with ''Nate the Great'', a 60-page book published by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. Simont illustrated the first twenty books, to 1998, and the last ten were illustrated by Martha Weston, Jody Wheeler, or Olga and Aleksey Ivanov "in the style of Marc Simont." Some of the titles were jointly written with Sharmat's sister Rosalind Weinman, husband Mitchell Sharmat or sons Craig Sharmat and Andrew Sharmat. Regarding the series Marjorie Sharmat calls husband Mitchell "always my first editor, and it's been a very happy collaboration". ''Nate the Great Goes Undercover'' was film adaptation, adapted as a television program and won the Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival Award. The New York Public Library named ''Nate the Great Save ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosamond McKitterick
Rosamond Deborah McKitterick (born 31 May 1949) is an English medieval historian. She is an authority on the Franks, Frankish kingdoms in the eighth and ninth centuries AD, who uses palaeography, palaeographical and manuscript studies to illuminate aspects of the political history, political, cultural history, cultural, intellectual history, intellectual, history of religion, religious, and social history of the Early Middle Ages. From 1999 until 2016 she was Professor of Medieval History (Cambridge), Professor of Medieval History and director of research at the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College and Professor Emerita of Medieval History in the University of Cambridge. Early life and education McKitterick was born Rosamond Pierce in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, on 31 May 1949. From 1951 to 1956 she lived in Cambridge, England, where her father had a position at Magdalene College. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosamond Carr
Rosamond Carr (née Halsey) (August 28, 1912 – September 29, 2006) was an American humanitarian and author.Martin, Douglas ''The New York Times'', October 8, 2006. Retrieved April 1, 2014. She was born in South Orange, New Jersey. In 1942, she married the British explorer and film maker Kenneth Carr. The Carrs settled in the Belgian Congo in 1949, and after their divorce Rosamond settled in Mugongo, Rwanda to run a plantation growing pyrethrum flowers to produce pyrethrin, an organic insecticide sought the world over."Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life In Rwanda" Carr was introduced to Dian Fossey in 1967, and the two became close friends and confidantes.Holley, JoeRosamond Carr, 94; Founder of Rwandan Orphanage ''The Washington Post'', October 4, 2006. Retrieved April 1, 2014. In 1994, Carr was evacuated from Mugongo by Belgian Marines during the Rwandan genocide, returning when her security was no longer at risk. She founded the Imbabazi Orphanage on December 17, 1994. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosamund Clifford
Rosamund Clifford (before 1150 – ), often called "The Fair Rosamund" or "Rose of the World" (Latin: ''rosa mundi''), was a medieval English noblewoman and mistress of Henry II, King of England, who became famous in English folklore. Life Early life Rosamund Clifford, born before 1150, is usually assumed to have been the daughter of Walter de Clifford (born Walter FitzRichard; 1113–1190), a Marcher Lord, and his wife Margaret. He gained his surname from his major holding, Clifford Castle in Herefordshire, where he was first steward then lord. She had three brothers, Walter (circa 1160–1221), Richard and Gilbert, and two sisters: Amice, who married Osbern FitzHugh of Richard's Castle, Herefordshire and Lucy, wife of Hugh de Say of Stokesay, Shropshire. Her name likely came from the Latin phrase ''rosa mundi'', meaning "rose of the world." Clifford was first raised at her father's Clifford Castle, then sent to a convent of Benedictine nuns in Godstow Abbey for edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosamond Pinchot
Rosamond Pinchot (October 26, 1904 – January 24, 1938) was an American socialite, stage and film actress. Early life and career Born in New York City, Pinchot was the daughter of Amos Pinchot, a wealthy lawyer and a key figure in the Progressive Party and Gertrude Minturn Pinchot, the daughter of shipping magnate Robert Bowne Minturn, Jr. She had a younger brother, Gifford (nicknamed Long Giff). Her uncle was Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot and her cousin was Edie Sedgwick. The family divided their time between their home in New York City and the family estate, Grey Towers, in Milford, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Miss Chapin's School. Her parents divorced in 1918. After the divorce, Pinchot and her brother lived with their mother in her townhouse in New York City. In 1919, Amos Pinchot married magazine writer Ruth Pickering with whom he would have two more children: Mary Eno and Antoinette "Tony" Pinchot. Career At the age of nineteen, Pinchot was discovered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosamond Praeger
Sophia Rosamond Praeger, MBE, HRHA, MA (17 April 1867 – 16 April 1954) was an Irish artist, sculptor, illustrator, poet and writer. Early life and education Praeger was born in Holywood, County Down, Ireland on 17 April 1867. Her parents were Willem Emil Praeger and Marie Ferrar Patterson. Her father, immigrated to Belfast from Holland to work with his uncle in the family linen company, which was established in 1860. Praeger had five brothers, one of whom was the naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger. Praeger received her primary school education at the day school run by the Non-Subscribing Presbyterian minister, Rev Charles McElester. Praeger would later teach at this school. She attended Sullivan Upper School, the Belfast School of Art and the Slade School of Art in London. At the Belfast School of Art, Praeger studied under the painter George Trobridge, and became a member of the Rambler's Sketching Club in 1886. In 1888, she enrolled in the Slade School, studying under A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roz Young
Rosamond McPherson "Roz" Young (October 4, 1912 – September 18, 2005) was an author, educator, historian, and for more than 25 years a "beloved" columnist for ''The Dayton Daily News'' and, prior to that, ''The Journal Herald'' in Dayton, Ohio. Her columns appeared on the Op-Ed page at a time when few women received bylines outside the Women's Pages. She was noted for taking other writers to task for lapses in grammar and for frequently including mention of her cat, Edith, in her columns. Early life and education Young was born in Dayton, Ohio on October 4, 1912, to artist Harry W. and Isabel Gilbert McPherson. She graduated from Dayton's Steel High School in 1930 and received a bachelor's degree (1934) and a Master's (1936) from Oberlin College. Early career After receiving her degree in English literature from Oberlin College in 1934, Young applied for a job at the ''Dayton Journal'', who told her "We don't hire women! But if you want to work for free, we'll let you." At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soong Ching-ling
Rosamond Soong Ch'ing-ling (27 January 189329 May 1981) was a Chinese political figure. As the third wife of Sun Yat-sen, then Premier of the Kuomintang and President of the Republic of China, she was often referred to as Madame Sun Yat-sen. She was a member of the Soong family and, together with her siblings, played a prominent role in China's politics prior to and after 1949. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, she held several prominent positions in the new government, including Vice Chairman (1949–1954; 1959–1975) and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (1954–1959; 1975–1981), traveled abroad during the early 1950s, representing her country at a number of international events. During the Cultural Revolution, however, she was heavily criticized. Following the purge of President Liu Shaoqi in 1968, she and Dong Biwu as Vice Presidents became de facto Heads of State of China until 1972, when Dong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosamond Langbridge
Rosamond Grant Langbridge (1880 – 2 July 1964) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet. Life She was born at Glenalla, County Donegal, Ireland, the daughter of Rev. Frederick Langbridge, a writer, poet (''The Scales of Heaven'') and playwright (''The Only Way''). She was brought up and educated in Limerick, where her father was Rector of St. John's, until he resigned due to ill-health in 1921. Stephen Brown: A Reader’s Guide to Irish Fiction (1910) She married the writer J. S. Fletcher Joseph Smith Fletcher (7 February 1863 – 30 January 1935) was an English journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction, and was one of the most prolific English writers of ..., with whom she had one child. She contributed to newspapers such as '' The Manchester Guardian'' and the ''Saturday Westminster'', amongst others. She died at Mersea, in Essex. Select bibliography Among her novels are: *''The Flame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
