Yes. Exactly. I’d never done a biography before, but I knew it was going to be something else altogether. And that excited me. It was a departure. I like challenges. And I was a little fatigued with psychobiography, the approach in the Capote and Arbus books. The attempt to make ps...
before he was passed a battle-axe by one of the fighting citizens of Lincoln, in order to continue the fight. Whatever the order, the king’s weapons were now useless and the king ‘fell to the ground by a blow from a stone.’6Stephen was stunned and a soldier named William...
Edward III was partial to greyhounds; for when he was engaged in war with France he took with him sixty couples of them, besides other large hunting dogs. Charles I was as fond of the greyhound as his son Charles II was of the spaniel. Sir Philip Warwick thus writes of that ...
Record also shows that on 1 October 1916 he temporarily joined the 13th Essex in the field, from the 2nd South Staffs, with the rank of Acting Lieutenant Colonel. He participated in the Battle of the Ancre in November 1916 during the tenth and final phase of the Battle ...
But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw. (King Henry the Sixth Part 1. Act 2. Scene 4. Warwick speaking.) Dick The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. Cade Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, ...
This etext was prepared by Les Bowler, St. Ives, Dorset. Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray Catherine, A Story by Ikey Solomons, Esq., Junior. Contents Advertisement 1. Introducing to the reader the chief personages of this narrative. 2. I
he declined two invitations to be court painter, he executed a full-length portrait of Frederick, prince of Wales, in 1736 (now in Warwick Castle). In 1725 Richardson moved to Queen Square, Bloomsbury, where he lived for the rest of his life. After about 1730 his professional output...
On December 5, two days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Kira was selected to be included in the 25th Annual International Salon of the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles. Within a few months, he was forced to store his camera, photography books and prints in the basement of the Nishi...
The Richard Field who published Shakespeare’s two poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, in 1593–94, seems to have been (as an apprenticeship record describes him) the “son of Henry Field of Stratford-upon-Avon in the County of Warwick, tanner.” When Henry Field the tanner ...
According to David Nasaw Hearst was a supporter of Adolf Hitler from 1934 until 1938: Hearst believed that Hitler was going to bring a century of peace to Europe. However, in a private interview Hearst told Hitler that in order to be a great leader, he must "stop the persecution of the...