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Lady Pleasance Reeve Smith (11 de maio de 1773 – 3 de fevereiro de 1877) foi uma escritora de letras e editora literária inglesa. Biografia. Smith nasceu em Lowestoft em 1773. Ela se casou com James Edward Smith. Depois que ela se casou em 1796, ela foi pintada "como uma cigana" por John Opie.
Pleasance Smith (née Reeve; 11 May 1773 – 3 February 1877) was an English letter writer, literary editor, and centenarian. Smith lived to the age of 103, becoming well known in later life on account of her advanced years.
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Pleasence made his television debut in I Want to Be a Doctor (1946). He received positive critical attention for his role as Syme in the BBC version of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) from the novel by George Orwell. The adaptation was by Nigel Kneale and featured Peter Cushing in the lead role of Winston Smith. Pleasence played Prince John in several ...
Pleasence made his big-screen debut with The Beachcomber (1954). Some notable early roles include Parsons in 1984 (1956), and minor roles opposite Alec Guinness in Barnacle Bill (1957) and Dirk Bogarde in The Wind Cannot Read (1958). In Tony Richardson's film of Look Back in Anger (1959), he plays a vindictive market inspector opposite Richard Burt...
During the early 1960s, Pleasence recorded several children's-story records on the Atlas Record label. These were marketed as the Talespinners series in the United Kingdom. They were also released in the United States as Tale Spinners for Children by United Artists. The stories included Don Quixote and the Brave Little Tailor. He also wrote, direct...
Pleasence was the author of the children's book Scouse the Mouse (1977) (London: New English Library), which was animated by Canadian animator/film director Gerald Potterton (a friend of the actor, who directed him in the Canadian film The Rainbow Boys (1973), retitled The Rainbow Gang for VHS release in the United States) and also adapted into a c...
Pleasance may refer to: People. Pleasance Pendred (1864–1948), British women's rights activist and suffragette; Pleasance Smith (1773–1877), English letter writer, literary editor and centenarian; Richard Pleasance, Australian rock musician and record producer; Simon Pleasance (born 1944), Anglo-French art translator and writer ...
18 de mai. de 2018 · Lady Pleasance Smith had a sharp intellect and a wide-ranging network of family, friends and acquaintances throughout her long life. She was known for her generosity and philanthropic work. Pleasance outlived her husband James Edward Smith, founder of the Linnean Society of London, by nearly five decades, and from the time of his death in 1828 ...
Lady Pleasance Smith. primary name: Smith, Pleasance. other name: Reeve, Pleasance. Details. individual; British; Female. Life dates. 1773-1877. Biography. Wife of Sir James E Smith, the botanist; centenarian.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures.
