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Wells Gardner, Darton
Wells Gardner, Darton and Company was a British publishing company based in London. The company was founded by William Wells Gardner (1821–1880) in 1859 to produce mainly Ecclesiology, ecclesiastical texts; it later brought on as a partner Joseph William Darton (1844–1916), and branched out into magazines and children's literature. (Darton already had a publishing house founded by his ancestor William Darton in the 1780s which specialized in juvenile literature.) Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. published books until the 1950s. Authors of children's books published by Gardner, Darton included Alice Corkran, F. J. Harvey Darton, Mrs. E. M. Field, John Masefield, Robert Hope Moncrieff, E. Nesbit, William Rainey, Francesca Maria Steele, and Enys Tregarthen. Authors of ecclesiastical texts included Herbert Bury, G. K. Chesterton, Joseph Clayton, Percy Dearmer, Hensley Henson, Alan George Sumner Gibson, Henry Twells, and James Charles Wall. Other authors published by the firm included J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Bury
Herbert Bury (19 June 1853 – 15 January 1933) was an Anglican bishop in the first decades of the 20th century. He was appointed Bishop of British Honduras in 1908, remaining there until 1911, and was then Bishop for Northern and Central Europe until 1926. Life Born in 1853, Bury was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford and ordained in 1878. After further incumbencies at Westminster St James, Newchurch in Rossendale and Hampstead he was appointed Bishop of Honduras in 1908, a post he held for three years. He was a coadjutor bishop to the Bishop of London — Bishop in Northern and Central Europe — from January 1911 until January 1926). For the sake of a stipend, he was appointed to a succession of near-sinecure City churches: Rector of St Katherine Coleman from June 1911, of St Peter, Vere Street from October 1916, Rector of St Anne and St Agnes from 31 March 1920 (which he retained until his death). Having resigned his European responsibiliti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Canterbury Tales
''The Canterbury Tales'' () is a collection of 24 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. The book presents the tales, which are mostly written in verse, as part of a fictional storytelling contest held by a group of pilgrims travelling together from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The ''Tales'' are widely regarded as Chaucer's '' magnum opus''. They had a major effect upon English literature and may have been responsible for the popularisation of the English vernacular in mainstream literature, as opposed to French or Latin. English had, however, been used as a literary language centuries before Chaucer's time, and several of Chaucer's contemporaries— John Gower, William Langland, the Gawain Poet, and Julian of Norwich—also wrote major literary works in English. It is unclear to what extent Chaucer was seminal in this evolution of literary preference. ''The Canterbury Tale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seven Champions Of Christendom
The Seven Champions of Christendom is an epithet referring to St. George, St. Andrew, St. Patrick, St. Denis, St. James Boanerges, St. Anthony the Lesser, and St. David. They are the patron saints of, respectively, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, and Wales. The champions were depicted in Christian art and folklore in Great Britain as heroic warriors, most notably in a 1596 book by Richard Johnson titled ''Famous Historie of the Seaven Champions of Christendom''. Richard Johnson was entirely responsible for grouping the seven together, for their epithet, and for most of their adventures in his book. Johnson's book was subsequently rewritten in modern English by W. H. G. Kingston. Legend often portrays God sending James to the Battle of Clavijo to fight against the Moors, while George is usually thought of as being a knightly dragon-slayer. The legend of Patrick casting all of the serpents out of Ireland is also quite famous. While the stories of each of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapbook
A chapbook is a type of small printed booklet that was a popular medium for street literature throughout early modern Europe. Chapbooks were usually produced cheaply, illustrated with crude woodcuts and printed on a single sheet folded into 8, 12, 16, or 24 pages, sometimes bound with a saddle stitch. Printers provided chapbooks on credit to chapmen, who sold them both from door to door and at markets and fairs, then paying for the stock they sold. The tradition of chapbooks emerged during the 16th century as printed books were becoming affordable, with the medium ultimately reaching its height of popularity during the 17th and 18th centuries. Various ephemera and popular or folk literature were published as chapbooks, such as almanacs, children's literature, folklore, ballads, nursery rhymes, pamphlets, poetry, and political and religious Tract (literature), tracts. The term ''chapbook'' remains in use by publishers to refer to short, inexpensive booklets. Terminology ''Chapbook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Macleod Read
William Henry Macleod Read (7 February 1819 – 10 May 1909) was an active participant in the commercial, political and social life of Singapore and the Malay states between 1841 and 1887. Early life Read was born in Scotland, the son of Christopher Rideout Read, co-partner of A. L. Johnston & Company. Aged 22, he travelled to Singapore to take his father's place at A. L. Johnston & Company, Singapore's leading merchant company at that time, his father retiring and returning to England the following year (1842). Alexander Laurie Johnston, his father's co-partner, retired and left Singapore in December. Read headed the company until his own retirement in 1887. Read was predeceased by his wife, Marjory Cumming-Read at age 21 on 24 June 1849. Cumming-Read was the daughter of banker John Cumming of Forres, Scotland and there is a stone marker in her memory as his "beloved and lamented wife" at St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore. Contributions to early colonial Singapore William Read ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Purdon
Katherine Frances Purdon (1852– 23 June 1920) was an Irish novelist and playwright, part of the Irish Revival movement and a member of the United Irishwomen. Biography Born in Hotwell, Enfield, County Meath, to a farming background, Purdon was educated in school in England and Alexandra College in Dublin. Purdon was a regular contributor to both Irish and English periodicals beginning with ''Irish Homestead''. She wrote stories which were also produced at the Abbey Theatre. Some of her works were illustrated by Jack B. Yeats and George Russell commented that she wrote perfect English. Purdon was one of only eleven women to have a play produced at the Abbey during that period. She is described in a review of the day as a new and talented author and there are reviews of her work from London through Jamaica to the New York Times. Purdon had an interest in the Irish Language movement and was in contact with noted activists like Thomas MacDonagh. However, by her own admission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish people, Anglo-Irish poet, novelist, playwright, and hack writer. A prolific author of various literature, he is regarded among the most versatile writers of the Georgian era. His comedy plays for the English stage are considered second in importance only to those of William Shakespeare, and his ''magnum opus'', the 1766 novel ''The Vicar of Wakefield'', was one of the most popular and widely read literary works of 18th-century Great Britain. He wrote plays such as ''The Good-Natur'd Man'' (1768) and ''She Stoops to Conquer'' (1771), as well as the poem ''The Deserted Village'' (1770). Goldsmith is additionally thought by some literary commentators, including Washington Irving, to have written the 1765 classic children's novel ''The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes'', one of the earliest and most influential works of children's literature. Goldsmith maintained a close friendship with Samuel Johnson, anothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Allgood
Jill Allgood (15 November 1910 – 1995) was a British producer, director, script writer, author and broadcaster who worked for the BBC. Allgood was a personal friend of Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon, and worked with them professionally. In 1944 she was working for Cecil Madden, Head of BBC Overseas Entertainment, and from 1944 to 1946, with Howard Agg (and later with C. F. Meehan), she devised and produced a weekly/fortnightly programme for forces in hospitals called ''Here's Wishing You Well Again''. There she got to know Bebe and Ben, who were often requested guests on that programme. She collaborated with Bebe on episodes of '' Life with the Lyons'', and wrote their biography ''Bebe and Ben''. Between 1947 and 1949 Jill Allgood wrote documentary scripts for the BBC's ''Woman's Hour'', followed by work as editor, presenter and producer of children's radio programmes. In 1960 she created nine episodes of '' Four Feather Falls'', a TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Charles Wall
James Charles Wall (AKA ''J. Charles Wall'', ''J. C. Wall'') (1860–1943) was a British ecclesiologist, historian, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the late 19th and early 20th century. He wrote many books, mainly on Church history, and was an early contributor to the Victoria History of the Counties of England project. He was born in Shoreditch on 15 July 1860 to James Wall and Mary Wall née Williams. He attended Westminster School and New College, Oxford New College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by Bishop William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as New College's feeder school, New College was one of the first col .... Bibliography * ''The Tombs of the Kings of England'', Sampson Low, Marston & Company, London, (1891) * ''Alfred the Great: His Abbeys of Hyde, Athelney and Shaftesbury'', (1900) * ''Devils—Their Origins and History'', Willian Brendon and Sons, Plymouth, (1904) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Twells
Rev. Canon Henry Twells (1823–1900) was an Anglican clergyman, hymn writer and poet. His best known hymn was "At Even, Ere the Sun Was Set", which was put to music by George Joseph, whose tune ''Angelus'' was first printed in 1657. He also wrote the well-known poem, " Time's Paces" that depicts the apparent speeding up of time as we become older. A younger brother, Edward Twells, was the first Bishop of Bloemfontein. Life Henry Twells was the son of Philip Mellor Twells, born in Ashted, Birmingham on 13 March 1823. He went to school at King Edward's School, Birmingham and then to Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, from where he graduated B.A. in 1848 and M.A. in 1851. On 25 May 1875, he married Ellen Jane Tompson, daughter of the Rev. Matthew Carrier Tompson, for fifty years Vicar of Alderminster, near Stratford-on-Avon. He died in Bournemouth on 19 January 1900. Career * 1849 - Ordained as deacon at Rochester Cathedral. * 1850 - Ordained as priest in the Chur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan George Sumner Gibson
Alan George Sumner Gibson was Coadjutor Bishop of Cape Town from 1894 to 1906. Early life He was born in 1856 to William Gibson (1804–1862), Rector of Fawley, and Louisanna Sumner (1817-1899), daughter of Charles Sumner, Bishop of Winchester. He was educated at Haileybury and Corpus Christi College, Oxford and ordained in 1881. Clerical career He was vice-principal of St Paul Burgh Missionary College then curate of Croft, Lincolnshire. He was the incumbent of Umtata Pro-Cathedral from 1882 to 1884; Missionary at Dalindyebo from 1884 to 1893; Canon of Umtata from 1885 to 1894; Archdeacon of Kokstad from 1886 to 1891; 91; Diocesan Secretary from 1892 to 1894; rector of Claremont from 1894 to 1897; and Canon of St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town from 1895 to 1906. Works Gibson was a prolific author; amongst others he wrote: *''Intloko Zentshumayelo'' (Kaffir Sermon Sketches), 1890; *''Eight Years in Kaffraria'', 1891; *''Some Thoughts on Missionary Work and Life'', 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
