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Há 3 dias · Deane church memorial to John Harwood (1770-1846), a member of the Harwood family of Deane, friends of the Austens. Harwood was rector of nearby Sherbourne St. John, where James Austen was vicar from 1791 to 1819. (The parish had both a vicar and a rector until 1844; the rector got more of the tithes.) Jane Austen mentions John Harwood in her ...
Há 2 dias · Branwell Brontë, self-portrait, 1840. The Brontës ( / ˈbrɒntiz /) were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848) and Anne (1820–1849), are well-known poets and ...
Há 4 dias · Pride & Prejudice is a 2005 romantic drama directed by Joe Wright, in his feature directorial debut, and based on Jane Austen 's 1813 novel of the same name. The film features five sisters from an English family of landed gentry as they deal with issues of marriage, morality and misconceptions.
Há 4 dias · The capital messuage was bought in 1608 by Sir George More of Loseley from Gabriel Parvish, son of Henry, and he in 1609 conveyed to George Austen, who died seised of it in 1621, and was succeeded by his son John.
Há 1 dia · v. t. e. John Henry Newman CO (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was an English theologian, academic, philosopher, historian, writer, and poet, first as an Anglican priest and later as a Catholic priest and cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century.
Há 3 dias · My personal favorite of Austen’s works, Persuasion introduces readers to an older heroine, Anne Elliot, who eight years before was persuaded not to marry Frederick Wentworth, the man she loved. In the present of the story, she is 27 and must endure his return — as a naval captain — into her society.
Há 2 dias · In 1980, at the age of 26, he became an Anglican clergyman. Thereafter, for 10 years, he worked in various parishes across London. At the same time, however, he was involved in smuggling Bibles and medicine into the former Soviet Union. In 1982, he was arrested for these activities. Subsequently interrogated by the KGB, he was eventually released.
