Sir Walter Besant (14 August 1836 – 9 June 1901) was an English novelist and historian. William Henry Besant was his brother, and another brother, Frank...
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novelist, wrote a number of successful novels in collaboration with Walter Besant. He was born in Northampton, and was educated at Cambridge University...
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married the cleric Frank Besant (1840–1917), younger brother of Walter Besant, an evangelical, serious Anglican. The Rev. Frank Besant was a graduate of Emmanuel...
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neither; in 1857 Charles Dickens termed it "London-over-the-Border". Walter Besant described East London as an area north of the Thames and east of the...
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William Henry Besant FRS (1 November 1828 – 2 June 1917) was a British mathematician, brother of novelist Walter Besant. Another brother, Frank, was the...
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and Round About a Great Estate (1880), that has drawn most admirers. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have...
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orator Derek Michael Besant (born 1950), Canadian artist Walter Besant (1836–1901), English novelist and historian W. H. Besant (1828–1917), British mathematician...
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mostly destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. According to Sir Walter Besant, "There was no house in [London] more interesting than this". The original...
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inspired by the Chronicles. Chronicles L'Horloge amoureux Méliador Walter Besant (1911). "Froissart, Jean". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica...
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residents of Whitechapel, East London. ... was the result of a visit from Walter Besant, the famous novelist, who was casting about in this portion of London...
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venue manager. Mabel Besant-Scott, English Theosophist. Sir Walter Besant, English novelist and historian. William Henry Besant, British mathematician...
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He was also involved in collaborations with Alexander Duffield, Sir Walter Besant, Andrew Lang, F. C. Grove and Camille Prévost and Lilian Moubrey. A...
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The Inner House is a novel by Walter Besant published in 1888. It is set a few centuries in the future and is a dystopian fantasy about a society which...
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of Authors, which had been founded by his friend and fellow novelist Walter Besant. The inconsistent quality of Collins's dramatic and fictional works...
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Barts Health NHS Trust. In 1882 novelist and social commentator Sir Walter Besant proposed a Palace of Delight with concert halls, reading rooms, picture...
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acquired some fine buildings, and the New Town began to be built. By 1882, Walter Besant was able to describe East London as a city in its own right, on account...
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Robert Freke Gould, The Revd Adolphus Frederick Alexander Woodford, Walter Besant, John Paul Rylands, Major Sisson Cooper Pratt, William James Hughan...
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Press, 1999), Robin Roberts points out that a similar plot was used by Walter Besant in his 1882 anti-feminist dystopia, The Revolt of Man. "Angel One" featured...
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Calamo, it is the motto of the Authors' Club of London, founded by Walter Besant in 1891. In another Latinized form, Doctrina Fortior Armis, it is the...
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brand of cigarette manufactured by VST Industries The Charm, play by Walter Besant 1896 The Charm, poetry collection by Robert Creeley 1969 The Charm,...
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It was based on the 1882 novel All Sorts and Conditions of Men by Walter Besant. Renee Kelly - Angela Messenger Rex Davis - Harry le Briton James Lindsay...
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Muirhead's 1927 guidebook to London and its Environs Westminster, by Sir Walter Besant and Geraldine Edith Mitton and A. Murray Smith, 1902, from Project Gutenberg...
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and the hope of a true dream of victory. The Ivory Gate, a novel by Walter Besant, describing a solicitor with a split personality. The utopian thoughts...
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passages of the work had not been able to win over all Victorian critics. Walter Besant criticised the work in his 1875 novel With Harp and Crown, singling...
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book series by K. A. Applegate The Changeling, an 1898 novel by Sir Walter Besant Troll och Människor, a two-part collection of writings (1915, 1921)...
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Views of London, Westminster & Southwark. London: Spottiswoode & Co. Walter Besant. London (Harper & Bros., 1892) Charles Welch (1893–1894). Notes on London...
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of the Future (1887) by Anna Bowman Dodd The Inner House (1888) by Walter Besant Caesar's Column (1890) by Ignatius L. Donnelly Pictures of the Socialistic...
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Grammar (1874) Jerusalem, the city of Herod and Saladin (1871), by Walter Besant and Palmer (the latter wrote the part taken from Arabic sources) Persian...
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Canary Wharf Pier. London portal Henry Mayhew George Robert Sims Sir Walter Besant Clement Attlee Colin Gwyer & Associates Ltd v London Wharf (Limehouse)...
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related to City of Westminster. City of Westminster Westminster, by Sir Walter Besant and Geraldine Edith Mitton and A. Murray Smith, 1902, from Project Gutenberg...
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