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- 1071: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- ... collection entitled simply Poems. This volume gained the attention of poet Robert Browning, whose work Elizabeth had praised in one of her poems, and he wrote her a letter. Elizabeth and Robert then exchanged 574 letters over the next twenty months. Immortalized in 1930 in the play The Barretts of Wimpole Street, by Rudolf Besier, their romance was bitterly opposed by her father, who did not want any of his children ...
- 1072: Harriet Tubman
- ... captured by slave traders and brought to North America from the Slave Coast of Africa during the 18th century. Because slaves were not allowed to read and write, Tubman grew up illiterate. She left no letters or diaries that would later allow historians to piece together all the parts of her life story. But we do know that she was one of history’s great heroines. With courage and determination, she ...
- 1073: Aldous Huxley
- ... screenplay for Pride and Prejudice in 1940 (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). In all, Huxley wrote forty-seven books in his career. In 1959 he received an Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his work (Aldous Huxley-Biography). In the 1950’s Huxley wrote the Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell. These novels deal with the “inebriated states produced by hallucinogens.” They describe the alteration in ...
- 1074: Stephen Hawking
- ... of the book, he developed pneumonia and had to undergo a lifesaving surgery which cost him his voice. He soon after started using the Perspex device, which is basically a sheet of plexi-glass with letters on it such that when he looks at a letter you can see which one he is looking at. Conversing letter by letter takes too much time so he moved on to a computer program ...
- 1075: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... in 1903.20 Some of Arthur Conan Doyle's later writings consisted of two medical short story collections, Round the Red Lamp and Round the Fire Stories. In 1894, a fictional autobiography, The Stark Munro Letters, was published in 1894.21 The Parasite and The Medal Brigadier Gerard were published in The Strand magazine in 1894. The very famous Arthur Conan Doyle novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, was published different ...
- 1076: Story Of Anne Moody
- ... demand their own rights as Americans. During Moody’s participation in the Movement, she did not gain much support from her family. Her mother wrote her about the dangers of her participation, but soon the letters will cease to be written. Her family feared for Moody’s life as well as those of her brothers and sisters. People who knew Moody back home could be killed or beaten for her actions ...
- 1077: Poussin And Roman Influences I
- ... father had once been a soldier, his family was of the farmer peasant class. In spite of the modest means of his family, his parents struggled to give him a complete education in Latin and letters where he discovered at an early age his natural talent and interest for drawing. Close to the age of seventeen he met an artist by the name of Quentin Varin who had traveled to his ...
- 1078: Prophet Muhammad
- ... in those 10 years of peace between the two factors, they could spread the word of Islam further out to other countries. In these 10 years, more people throughout other countries embraced Islam. Prophet sent letters to several kings and rulers (including the two superpowers - Byzantines and Persians) inviting them to Islam. Negus, the king of Abyssinia, and the Ruler of Bahrain accepted Islam, and Emperor Heraclius acknowledged Muhammad’s Prophethood ...
- 1079: Polygamy
- ... Van Wagoner, pp. 142-143, Cannon may have been trying to clear his name and his father's before Washington political types. Ironically it was George Q. Cannon that took the lead in drafting sanction letters for Woodruff, that would be taken by members to the colonies to get additional wives after the Manifesto of 1890.) "To Whom it may concern:" "Press dispatches having been sent for political purposes, from Salt ...
- 1080: MARGARET ATWOOD
- ... pieced together like a quilt (a deliberate metaphor established from the novel's divisions or chapters, each named for a particular pattern of quilting). The events leading up to the murders are revealed through narrative, letters, newspaper accounts, excerpts from Susanna Moodie's journal, notes by doctors and wardens and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. Atwood maintains an ironic distance that manages simultaneously to reveal the ...
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