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Samuel Simmons (printer)
Samuel Simmons (1640–1687) was an English printer, known as the publisher of ''Paradise Lost'' by John Milton. Life Simmons was born on 8 April 1640, but for some reason he was not baptised until 1643. His parents were Matthew and Mary Simmons. His father printed a number of Milton's works until he died in 1654. Mary Simmons ran the printing business and according to the hearth tax she ran the largest printing business in London. Samuel was sent to the Merchant Taylors' School until 1656. He and his mother then ran the business together. His name appeared as the publisher in books from 1662 but it was not until 1667 that he appears in the publishers register for a book. In 1667 he notably added the name of his first book to the Stationers' register and that was ''Paradise Lost ''Paradise Lost'' is an Epic poetry, epic poem in blank verse by the English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The poem concerns the Bible, biblical story of the fall of man: the temptation of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of English People
Listed below are English people of note and some notable individuals born in England. Actors and actresses Archaeologists and anthropologists * George Adamson (1906–1989) * Leslie Alcock (1925–2006) * Mick Aston (1946–2013) * Richard J. C. Atkinson, Richard Atkinson (1920–1994) * Edward Russell Ayrton (1882–1914) * Churchill Babington (1821–1889) * Philip Arthur Barker (1920–2001) * Thomas Bateman (antiquary), Thomas Bateman (1821–1861) * James Theodore Bent (1852–1897) * Geoffrey Bibby (1917–2001) * Howard Carter (archaeologist), Howard Carter (1874–1939) * John Grahame Douglas Clark, Grahame Clark (1907–1995) * David L. Clarke, David Clarke (1937–1976) * Barry Cunliffe (born 1939) * Glyn Daniel (1914–1986) * John Disney (archaeologist), John Disney (1779–1857), barrister and archaeologist * E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902–1973), social anthropologist * Cyril Fox (1882–1967) * Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968) * William Greenwell (1820–1918) * Phil H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publisher
Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribution of Printing, printed works, such as books, comic books, newspapers, and magazine, magazines to the public. With the advent of digital information systems, the scope has expanded to include electronic publishing, digital publishing such as E-book, e-books, Magazines, digital magazines, Electronic publishing, websites, social media, music, and video game publisher, video game publishing. The commercial publishing industry ranges from large multinational conglomerates such as News Corp, Pearson PLC, Pearson, Penguin Random House, and Thomson Reuters to major retail brands and thousands of small independent publishers. It has various divisions such as trade/retail publishing of fiction and non-fiction, educational publishing, and Academi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paradise Lost
''Paradise Lost'' is an Epic poetry, epic poem in blank verse by the English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The poem concerns the Bible, biblical story of the fall of man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of Verse (poetry), verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's ''Aeneid'') with minor revisions throughout. It is considered to be Milton's masterpiece, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of all time. At the heart of ''Paradise Lost'' are the themes of free will and the moral consequences of disobedience. Milton seeks to "justify the ways of God to men," addressing questions of predestination, human agency, and the nature of good and evil. The poem begins in medias res, with Satan and his fallen angels cast into Hell after their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem ''Paradise Lost'' was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. It addressed the fall of man, including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan, and God's expulsion of them from the Garden of Eden. ''Paradise Lost'' elevated Milton's reputation as one of history's greatest poets. He also served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. Milton achieved fame and recognition during his lifetime. His celebrated '' Areopagitica'' (1644) condemning pre-publication censorship is among history's most influential and impassioned defences of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. His desire for freedom extended beyond his philosophy and was reflected in his style, which included his introduction of new words ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Simmons
Mary Simmons (died circa 1687) was an English printer. She was a member of the Simmons family who published radical works in London in the 17th century. The business's most notable author was John Milton. Mary took over the printing business from her husband in 1654 and ran it. She worked in partnership with her son, Samuel Simmons, when he was older. Life Her husband, Matthew died on 19 May 1654. He was an English printer noted for publishing radical work including several works by John Milton including ''Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce'' in 1643. They had children together including Samuel Simmons Mary was the person named as the administer of his affairs. Thomas Brooks's ''Anexichniastoi ploutoi tou Christou'' (The unsearchable riches of Christ) was printed by Mary Simmons in 1655 and her son Samuel was sent to the Merchant Taylors School until 1656. She and Samuel then ran the business together. However, it was Mary's name that appeared in the Stationers' Register and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
Merchant Taylors' School is an 11–18 boys Public school (United Kingdom), public day school, founded in 1561 in London. The school has occupied various campuses. From 1933 it has been at Sandy Lodge, a site close to Northwood, London, Northwood in the Three Rivers (district), Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire. The school has 1100 students between the ages of 11 and 18. The school is an all-through school from age 3 to 18 after merger with Northwood Prep School in 2015. Founded in 1561 by Sir Thomas White (merchant), Thomas White, Sir Richard Hilles, Emanuel Lucar and Stephen Hales, it was one of the nine English Public school (UK), public schools investigated by the Clarendon Commission set up in 1861, and successfully argued that it should be omitted from the Public Schools Act 1868, as did St Paul's School, London, the other day school investigated by the Clarendon Commission. History Establishment, 1561 The school was founded in 1561 by Thomas White (merchant), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1640 Births
Events January–March * January 6 – The Siege of Salses ends almost six months after it had started on June 9, 1639, with the French defenders surrendering to the Spanish attackers. * January 17 – A naval battle over control of what is now Brazil, between ships of the Dutch Republic and those of the Kingdom of Portugal, ends after five days of fighting with the Dutch driving the Portuguese away from the port of Recife. * February 9 – Ibrahim I (1640– 1648) succeeds Murad IV ( 1623–1640) as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. * March 8– 13 – Siege of Galle: Dutch troops take the strategic fortress at Galle, Sri Lanka from the Portuguese. April–June * April 13 – The Short Parliament assembles, as King Charles I of England attempts to fund the second of the Bishops' Wars. * May 5 – The Short Parliament is dissolved. * May 11/ 12 Following the Short Parliament's dissolution, an angry and armed mob attacked Lambeth Pal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1687 Deaths
Events January–March * January 3 – With the end of latest of the Savoyard–Waldensian wars in the Duchy of Savoy between the Savoyard government and Protestant Italians known as the Waldensians, Victor Amadeus III, Duke of Savoy, carries out the release of 3,847 surviving prisoners and their families, who had forcibly been converted to Catholicism, and permits the group to emigrate to Switzerland. * January 8 – Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, is appointed as the last Lord Deputy of Ireland by the English crown, and begins efforts to include more Roman Catholic Irishmen in the administration. Upon the removal of King James II in England and Scotland, the Earl of Tyrconnell loses his job and is replaced by James, who reigns briefly as King of Ireland until William III establishes his rule over the isle. * January 27 – In one of the most sensational cases in England in the 17th century, midwife Mary Hobry murders her abusive husband, De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
