• Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (19 November 1894 – 27 June 1977) was an English novelist. The youngest child of a mill owner, she grew up in Halifax in the West...
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  • a 1967 Granada-produced ITV drama based on a trilogy of novels by Phyllis Bentley - Inheritance (1932), The Rise of Henry Morcar (1946) and A Man of...
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  • loudness in music. Crescendo may also refer to: Crescendo, 1958 novel by Phyllis Bentley Crescendo, 1998 novel by Mary McCarthy Crescendo, 1928 novel by Henry...
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    Paddington Mystery (1925). Marian Phipps, a character in stories by Phyllis Bentley, is an armchair detective in her earliest appearances, solving cases...
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    Cragg Coiners were the subject of a children's novel Gold Pieces by Phyllis Bentley. The story is seen through the eyes of a fictitious 12-year-old boy...
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    Thompson Twins William Swinden Barber, architect Richard Bedford, singer Phyllis Bentley, novelist James Bintliff, Union Army General Sarah Blackwood, singer...
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    autobiographical, dealing with her failed friendship with the novelist Phyllis Bentley, her romantic feelings for her American publisher George Brett Jr,...
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  • published 1997), Louisa May Alcott novel Inheritance, a 1932 novel by Phyllis Bentley The Inheritance, a 2005 translation of a novel by Palestinian writer...
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  • football player Phyllis Bentley (1894–1977), English novelist Richard Bentley (1662–1742), English classical scholar Richard Bentley (publisher) (1794–1871)...
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    demythologizing China and the Chinese people in the American mind". Phyllis Bentley, in an overview of Buck's work published in 1935, was altogether impressed:...
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  • Tarkington Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas Inheritance by Phyllis Bentley Three Loves by A. J. Cronin Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen As the...
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  • (1909–1983) E. F. Benson (1867–1940), Mapp and Lucia series Phyllis Bentley (1894–1977) Ursula Bentley (1945–2004) Kenneth Benton (1909–1999), spy fiction J...
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    Amalina Che Bakri, Doctor Hilary Andersson, journalist and presenter Phyllis Bentley, novelist and authority on the Brontë family Theodora Bosanquet, writer...
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  • Gene Anderson". Variety. 238 (12): 207. May 12, 1965. "TV SECTION: Phyllis Bentley Serial on BBC-TV". The Stage (3, 969): 5. May 9, 1957. "THE 'Q'; Money...
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    Julius Caesar as the novel's villain. Freedom, Farewell! (1936) by Phyllis Bentley depicts Caesar as a tyrant. The Ides of March (1948), is an epistolary...
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  • (1894–1954, Sweden) Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914, England/Italy) Phyllis Bentley (1894–1977, England) Louis de Bernières (born 1954, England)* Sir Walter...
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    definition of Britishness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Bentley, Phyllis Eleanor, The English regional novel 1894–1977. London: Allen & Unwin...
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  • assassination. Caesar, Antony by Allan Massie Freedom, farewell! by Phyllis Bentley. The Roma Sub Rosa series by Steven Saylor is set in the later years...
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  • Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), novelist, humorist and poet Elizabeth Bentley (1767–1839), poet Nicolas Bentley (1907–1978), writer and illustrator Phyllis Bentley...
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  • Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956, England, p) Elizabeth Bentley (1767–1839, England, p) Nicolas Bentley (1907–1978, England, p) Phyllis Bentley (1894–1977...
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    Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey (26 February 1909 – 27 December 1994), better known as Fanny Cradock, was an English restaurant critic, television cook and...
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  • Henry Bellamann – The Richest Woman in Town E.F. Benson – Secret Lives Phyllis Bentley – Inheritance Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (as Adela...
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  • that he is most widely known. During his life he received praise from Phyllis Bentley, J. B. Priestley, H. G. Wells, Glyn Hughes, Mike Harding, Ted Hughes...
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    1962), 27. Rev. of O Dreams, O Destinations: An Autobiography, by Phyllis Bentley. “No More Ladies in the Dark,” Saturday Review, XLV (August 25, 1962)...
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  • surname: Tom Bailey, singer with Thompson Twins Richard Bedford, singer Phyllis Bentley, novelist Sarah Blackwood, singer with Dubstar Bramwell Booth, former...
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    the 100m Butterfly junior record for English schools, set in 1983 Phyllis Bentley OBE, novelist - wrote Inheritance Stella Robson, Chairman from 1998-2002...
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  • literary territory, with contributors including Sylvia Townsend Warner, Phyllis Bentley, V. S. Pritchett, Laurie Lee, and L. P. Hartley. Davison resigned from...
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  • and Son Charles Dickens Mark Whyte 1974 Villette Charlotte Brontë Phyllis Bentley 1975 Lorna Doone R. D. Blackmore L. A. G. Strong 1977 Jane Eyre Charlotte...
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    Robeson No.18 Vivienne Bennett No.19 Vera Brittain with her friend Phyllis Bentley in 1935 Winifred Holtby Elliott Seabrooke Sir George Catlin (political...
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  • Marjorie Reynolds as Susie Milburn Stone as Callahan Cheryl Walker as Phyllis Bentley George Cleveland as Lester Alex Callam as Morgan Tristram Coffin as...
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