Frederick William Rolfe (surname pronounced /roʊf/ ROHF), better known as Baron Corvo (Italian for "Crow"), and also calling himself Frederick William...
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children. Jane Rolfe's interment was near her father in the Kippax Plantation, but her birth year was never engraved on her headstone. John Frederick Dorman,...
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Thomas Rolfe (January 30, 1615 – c. 1680) was the only child of Pocahontas and her English husband, John Rolfe. His maternal grandfather was Chief Powhatan...
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John Rolfe (c. 1585 – March 1622) was an English explorer, farmer and merchant. He is best known for being the husband of Pocahontas and the first settler...
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as "Rollo". B. A. Rolfe, movie producer Chris Rolfe, American soccer player Frank Rolfe, owner of US trailer parks Frederick Rolfe, also known as "Baron...
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is a 1904 novel by the English novelist Frederick Rolfe, who wrote under the pseudonym "Baron Corvo". Rolfe's best-known work, this novel of extreme wish-fulfilment...
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Pocahontas (redirect from Rebecca Rolfe)
/ˌpoʊkəˈhɒntəs/ , UK: /ˌpɒk-/; born Amonute, also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; c. 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan...
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wrote A Defence of Uranian Love). The flamboyantly eccentric novelist Frederick Rolfe (also known as "Baron Corvo") was a unifying presence in their social...
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the main character in Stories Toto Told Me and In His Own Image by Frederick Rolfe Toto (1933 film), a 1933 French film directed by Jacques Tourneur Toto...
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Charles Sidney Beauclerk (section Rolfe)
of Wales". He was also notable for his connection to the novelist Frederick Rolfe, and for his involvement in the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship...
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Butler (published 1923–6) and collected material for a biography of Frederick Rolfe. Bartholomew was born in Walthamstow, the youngest of eight children...
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Penguin. 1998. Lucrezia Borgia: A Biography. Rachel Erlanger, 1978 Frederick Rolfe, The History of the Borgias (New York: Modern Library, 1931), 379–408...
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suggested to Benson by his friend and literary mentor Frederick Rolfe in December 1905. It was Rolfe who also introduced Benson to the writings of Claude...
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London, son of council worker David Frederick Rolfe (deceased) and retired Secretary Dorothy Jane Mungeam (Rolfe), aged 38 years at the time of taking...
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Malvern from 1915 until his death in 1941. One of Rolfe's elder brothers was the writer Frederick Rolfe, who corresponded regularly with his younger brother...
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(1853–1909), Austrian art historian (Recinto 1°, Crypt enclosure 326dx) Frederick Rolfe (1860–1913), British Catholic writer, eccentric, better known as Baron...
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Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Frederick Rolfe, Joseph Conrad, Sükhbaatar, John Reed, White Russian general Roman...
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Wilkie Collins, H. G. Wells, Wyndham Lewis, Richard Aldington, Frederick Rolfe (as Fr. Rolfe), Aldous Huxley, Samuel Beckett, the "unfinished" novel Weir...
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Dinotopia book series Nicholas Crabbe, character in an eponymous novel by Frederick Rolfe Vincent Crabbe, character in the Harry Potter series All pages with...
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performed on Broadway in Hide and Seek, Salad Days, and the lead of Frederick Rolfe in Hadrian the Seventh, which he also played in Australia, co-featuring...
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Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford, where one of his teachers was Frederick Rolfe, a gay man who would go on to a career as a noted novelist and artist...
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Orthodox monk who assumed the identity of Byzantine Emperor Michael VII Frederick Rolfe (1860–1913), better known as Baron Corvo Lambert Simnel (c. 1477 –...
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Caminèr Turra (1751–1796), writer and translator of foreign plays Frederick Rolfe (1860–1913), English author of the Venetian novel The Desire and Pursuit...
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(1856–1935) Arthur Machen (1863–1947) Charles Ricketts (1866–1931) Frederick Rolfe (1860–1913) M. P. Shiel (1865–1947) Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909)...
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The Last of the Wine, by Mary Renault, Hadrian the Seventh, by Frederick Rolfe (Frederick Baron Corvo), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman...
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English writer Frederick Rolfe ('Baron Corvo') posthumously published by A. J. A. Symons in 1935. It started as a collaboration between Rolfe and Harry Pirie-Gordon...
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author of The Quest For Corvo, an acclaimed biography of the author Frederick Rolfe. Janie Terrero (1858 – 1944), militant suffragette born here. Jamie...
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for having become, half a century later, the patroness of the writer Frederick Rolfe. Caroline Shirley was born in England at around Christmas in 1818....
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it takes to elect a new Pope. The 1904 novel Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe features the apparently divinely-inspired election of George Arthur...
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posthumous) drama by Claude Bernard Hubert's Arthur (1935) novel by Frederick Rolfe Devil’s Brood (2008), Lionheart (2011) and A King’s Ransom (2014) novels...
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