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Há 5 dias · As historian Eloise Moss writes, Arthur J. Raffles, the gentleman burglar invented by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s brother-in-law, Earnest William Hornung, broke the rules of class and propriety in a way that harmonized with changing norms.
Há 4 dias · E.W. Hornung married Conan Doyle's sister Connie in 1893. In 1899 he published the first of his accounts of the adventures of Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman. His relationship with his brother-in-law was close: he was a key-figure, as wicket-keeper, in Conan Doyle's cricket team in the early 1900s.
Há 4 dias · E. W. Hornung (d. 1921), author of Raffles, and brother of J. P. Hornung of West Grinstead Park, lived at Partridge Green. Hilaire Belloc (d. 1953) is buried in the churchyard of the Roman Catholic church, as is the writer Antonia White (d. 1980).
Há 2 dias · His two brothers-in-law (one of whom was E. W. Hornung, creator of the literary character Raffles), as well as his two nephews, also died shortly after the war. His second book on spiritualism, The Vital Message, appeared in 1919.
Há 5 dias · The first country to industrialize – England – ostensibly did so without expanding investment in the basic education of its workforce. The empirical evidence underpinning this argument for England re...
Há 1 dia · E. W. Hornung: 1898: The War of the H. G. Wells: 1898: The Turn of the Henry James: 1898: The Interpretation of Sigmund Freud: 1899: Heart of Joseph Conrad: 1899: Portrait of a Lady, Time Machine, Island of Dr Moreau
Há 12 horas · Der 1853 im Toggenburg geborene Forster ist wohl der erste Mann in der Schweiz, der es wagte, sich offen als «Urning» zu bekennen. – so nannte man damals Homosexuelle. Er wurde denunziert, mehrfach verurteilt und weggesperrt. Doch er blieb standhaft. 1898 publizierte er eine Schrift, in der er sein Schicksal schilderte.
