• Poor Clare is a 1968 novel by the British writer L.P. Hartley. After inheriting some fine works of art from his aunt, a composer surprises everyone when...
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  • Blessed Clare of Rimini, beatified Poor Clare nun Clare Abbott (born 1921), South African artist Clare Adamson (born 1967), British politician Clare Akamanzi...
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  • The Poor Clare is a short story by English Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell. First serialised in three installments in 1856 Charles Dickens' popular...
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    his five-foot (1.5 m) stature and contributed to his poor physical health in later life. Clare had bought a copy of James Thomson's The Seasons and began...
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    before they half burn. Clare de Graffenreid, "The Georgia Cracker in the Cotton Mills" During the American Civil War, the Poor White comprised a majority...
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    Keeley Hawes (redirect from Clare Hawes)
    Clare Julia Hawes (born 10 February 1976), known professionally as Keeley Hawes, is an English actress. After beginning her career in a number of literary...
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    Lady Clare is a narrative poem by Alfred Tennyson, first published in 1842. Lady Clare was first published in 1842. After 1851 no alterations were made...
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  • Enduring Love, a 1997 novel by Ian McEwan Clarissa Saunders in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, a 1939 film Clarissa (disambiguation) Poor Clares, nuns of the Order...
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    18 August 2009. "Ennistymon Union – The Poor Law Act". Clare Library. Retrieved 18 August 2009. "The Irish poor law | Public Record Office of Northern...
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    staying in church properties. Clare of Assisi, under Francis's guidance, founded the Poor Clares (Order of Saint Clare) of the Franciscans. The extreme...
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    María Clara. At the novel's end, a heartbroken yet resolved María Clara entered the Real Monasterio de Santa Clara (a Poor Clare nunnery) after learning...
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    received her at the Porziuncola and thereby established the Order of Poor Clares. He gave Clare a religious habit, a garment similar to his own, before lodging...
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  • How to Stop Time (category 2017 British novels)
    mixed or poor reviews from The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and PopMatters. Writing for The New York Times, English writer Clare Clark compared...
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  • The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (category 2000 British novels)
    the end of the 6th novel, Mini Shopaholic. In the novel, Clare Edwards is described as being boring, pale and smug. In the film, Clare is more expressive...
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    who renounced her privileged background and founded the order of Poor Clares. Clare was the main English form of the name used in the Middle Ages, but...
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    jealousy of Clare, she begins to suspect her friend is having an affair with her husband Brian. The novel ends with John Bellew learning that Clare is of mixed...
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  • Children's literature portal Novels portal Claudine at St. Clare's is the seventh novel in the St. Clare's series by Enid Blyton. The narrative follows...
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    ensemble the Poor Clares, who debuted in 2003 at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival to rave reviews.[citation needed] The Poor Clares' albums include...
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    Mariana Alcoforado (category Poor Clares)
    Beja, 28 July 1723) was a Portuguese nun living in the convent of the Poor Clares (Convento de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Convent of Our Lady of the Conception)...
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  • All of Us Strangers (category Films based on Japanese novels)
    1987 novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada. It stars Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, and Claire Foy. The second feature adaptation of the novel, after...
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    Claire Foy (redirect from Clare foy)
    Helen, in the TV movie The Night Watch, which was based on a Sarah Waters novel. She returned to the stage in February 2013 as Lady Macbeth, alongside James...
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    Coogan described Partridge as a Little Englander, with right-wing values and poor taste. He is socially inept, often offending his guests, and has an inflated...
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    No Name is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1862. Illegitimacy is a major theme of the novel. It was originally serialised in Charles Dickens'...
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    Clare Quilty. Humbert is not, however, his real name, but a chosen pseudonym. The theme of the doppelgänger also occurs in Nabokov's earlier novel, Despair...
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  • of Portrait of Clare (1927), which won that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Like Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels, the Mercian novels are unified by...
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    joined the Poor Clares in Newry, County Down, a community of Franciscan nuns that taught poor girls. She took the name of Sister Francis Clare. In 1861...
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    novel of the 18th century. There was public outcry, but the novel was hugely popular. Over time, Lewis came to feel that its writing had been in poor...
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  • Richard Paige Dean Koontz Richard Saunders Benjamin Franklin The "Poor Richard" of Poor Richard's Almanack Richard Stark Donald E. Westlake Westlake used...
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  • posthumously in 1980). In these novels, based on his own life, Poulaiile depicts a working-class family, the Magneux. Poet John Clare (1793–1864) was an important...
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    The Cloven Foot (category Sensation novels)
    The Cloven Foot is an 1879 novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon that combines aspects of the sensation novel and detective novel, and may even be considered...
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