Norbury is a village with links to the family of an English novelist who wrote what book in 1859?
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Norbury, Derbyshire Norbury is a village in Derbyshire, England. It is located 3 mi north of Rocester, on the B5033 road and the River Dove (which is the traditional border for Staffordshire). The hamlet has links with George Eliot's family, the Evans. George Eliot's father, Robert Evans, was born in Roston Common and sang in the choir at Norbury church, and most of George Eliot's paternal ancestors are buried there.
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George Eliot Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Ann" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including "Adam Bede" (1859), "The Mill on the Floss" (1860), "Silas Marner" (1861), "Middlemarch" (1871–72), and "Daniel Deronda" (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.
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Rosa Nouchette Carey Rosa Nouchette Carey (27 September 1840 – 9 July 1909) was an English children's writer and popular novelist, whose works reflected the values of her time and were thought of as wholesome for girls.
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Christopher Hatton Turnor Christopher Hatton Turnor (23 November 1873 – 19 August 1940) was an English author, architect, and social reformer. He is known for having designed the Watts Gallery, Surrey and the Stoneham War Shrine, Hampshire.
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Thomas Henry Lister Thomas Henry Lister (1800 – 5 June 1842) was an English novelist and Registrar General.
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William Thomas Beckford William Thomas Beckford (1 October 1760 – 2 May 1844) was an English novelist, a profligate and consummately knowledgeable art collector and patron of works of decorative art, a critic, travel writer and sometime politician, reputed at one stage in his life to be the richest commoner in England. His parents were William Beckford and Maria Hamilton, daughter of the Hon. George Hamilton. He was Member of Parliament for Wells from 1784 to 1790, for Hindon from 1790 to 1795 and 1806 to 1820.
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Henrietta Camilla Jenkin Henrietta Jenkin or Henrietta Jackson; Henrietta Camilla Jenkin; Henrietta Camilla Jackson (1807–1885) was an English novelist.
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Nancy Mitford Nancy Freeman-Mitford {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (28 November 1904 – 30 June 1973), known as Nancy Mitford, was an English novelist, biographer and journalist. One of the renowned Mitford sisters and one of the "Bright Young People" on the London social scene in the inter-war years, she is best remembered for her novels about upper-class life in England and France and for her sharp and often provocative wit. She also established a reputation for herself as a writer of popular historical biographies.
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Lucy Clifford Lucy Clifford (2 August 1846 – 21 April 1929), better known as Mrs. W. K. Clifford, was an English novelist and journalist, and the wife of philosopher William Kingdon Clifford.
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Elizabeth Page (novelist) Elizabeth Merwin Page (1889–1969) was an American novelist, best known for her bestselling 1939 novel "The Tree of Liberty", which was adapted into the 1940 film "The Howards of Virginia".
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Weymouth Sands Weymouth Sands was written by John Cowper Powys in rural upper New York State and published in February 1934 in New York City by Simon and Schuster. It was published in Britain as Jobber Skald in 1935 by John Lane. "Weymouth Sands" was the third of John Cowper Powys's so-called Wessex novels, which include "Wolf Solent" (1929), "A Glastonbury Romance" (1932), and "Maiden Castle" (1936). Powys was an admirer of novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, and these novels are set in Somerset and Dorset, part of Hardy's mythical Wessex. American scholar Richard Maxwell describes these four novels "as remarkably successful with the reading public of his time". The setting of this novel is the English seaside town of Weymouth, Dorset.
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Henry William Herbert Henry William Herbert (April 3, 1807 – May 17, 1858), pen name Frank Forester, was an English novelist, poet, historian, illustrator, journalist and writer on sport. Starr writes that "as a classical scholar he had few equals in the United States . . . his knowledge of English history and literature was extensive; he was a pen-and-ink artist of marked ability; as a sportsman he was unsurpassed; his pupils idolized him."
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Henrietta Batson Henrietta Mary Batson "née" Blackman (1859–1943) was an English writer whose interest in the countryside and rural people was an important theme in her novels and much of her non-fiction. She often published as Mrs. Stephen Batson, or sometimes as H.M. Batson.
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Bennet family The Bennet family are a fictional family of dwindling Hertfordshire landed gentry, created by English novelist Jane Austen. The family plays a central role in the novel "Pride and Prejudice", since it is the one to which the protagonist, Elizabeth, belongs. The complex relationships between its various members influence the evolution of the plot.
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My Lady Ludlow My Lady Ludlow is a novel (over 77,000 words in the Project Gutenberg text) by Elizabeth Gaskell. It appeared in the magazine "Household Words" in 1858, and was republished in "Round the Sofa" in 1859, with framing passages added at the start and end.
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Emilia Marryat Emilia Marryat (later Emilia Marryat Norris; 1835?–1875) was a British author. The daughter of author Capt. Frederick Marryat and his wife Catherine, she was known as a children's author who wrote adventure novels infused with moral lessons in the style of her father. Some of her novels, including "Amongst the Maoris" (1874), are set in the Pacific and New Zealand. "Amongst the Maoris" is the first novel to take the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island as a setting. Though two of her novels have Australian content, she is not known to have ever visited the country.
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Thomas Love Peacock Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting: characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day.
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Charlotte Anne Eaton Charlotte Anne Eaton (1788–1859), née Waldie, was an English banker, travel writer, memoirist and novelist.
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Patrick Brontë Patrick Brontë ( , "commonly" ; 17 March 1777 – 7 June 1861) was an Irish priest and author who spent most of his adult life in England. He was the father of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, and of Branwell Brontë, his only son. Patrick outlived his wife, the former Maria Branwell, by forty years by which time all of their children had died as well.
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Frances Mabel Robinson Frances Mabel Robinson (1858-1954), who wrote some of her works by the pen name WS Gregg, was an English novelist and critic.
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W. B. Maxwell William Babington Maxwell (1866–1938) was a British novelist. Born on 4 June 1866, he was the third surviving child and second eldest son of novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
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Frances Blogg Frances Chesterton, born Frances Alice Blogg (1869–1938) was an English author of verse, songs and school drama. She was the wife of G.K. Chesterton and had a large role in his career as amanuensis and personal manager.