Peter Ackroyd CBE, FRSL (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London...
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a detective novel by the British writer Agatha Christie, her third to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. The...
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p. 462 Dickens 2003, p. 470 Dickens by Peter Ackroyd; Harper Collins, 1990, p. 777 Dickens by Peter Ackroyd; Harper Collins, 1990, p. 859 Dickens, Charles...
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Ackroyd (born 1938), English artist Peter Ackroyd (born 1949), English biographer, novelist and critic Peter Ackroyd (biblical scholar) (1917–2005), British...
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conflict between the two during the period of Blake's apprenticeship, but Peter Ackroyd's biography notes that Blake later added Basire's name to a list of artistic...
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ISBN 9780300107869. Peter Ackroyd, "Thames: Sacred River" 272–273 Peter Ackroyd, Thames: The Biography. 272 & 274. Peter Ackroyd, "Thames: Sacred River" 272 Peter Ackroyd...
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that has grown to a population of over eight million. The historian Peter Ackroyd argues that Bazalgette should be considered a hero of London. Satirical...
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However, biographer Peter Ackroyd asserts that it is "inconceivable" that theirs was "in any sense a 'consummated' affair". Ackroyd's strength of feeling...
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Hawksmoor (novel) (category Novels by Peter Ackroyd)
Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by English writer Peter Ackroyd. It won Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Awards and the Guardian Fiction Prize. It tells the...
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Thomas More (category Burials at the Church of St Peter ad Vincula)
Michael Farris cite Foxe when repeating these allegations. Biographer Peter Ackroyd also lists claims from Foxe's Book of Martyrs and other post-Reformation...
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Peter Runham Ackroyd (15 September 1917 – 23 January 2005) was a British Biblical scholar, Anglican priest, and former Congregational minister. From 1961...
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London: The Biography (category Books by Peter Ackroyd)
London: The Biography is a 2000 non-fiction book by Peter Ackroyd published by Chatto & Windus. Ackroyd's work, following his previous work on London in one...
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" There are literary precursors for Scrooge in Dickens's own works. Peter Ackroyd, Dickens's biographer, sees similarities between Scrooge and the title...
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A Christmas Carol (redirect from Peter Cratchit)
" There are literary precursors for Scrooge in Dickens's own works. Peter Ackroyd, Dickens's biographer, sees similarities between the character and the...
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Medina from a screenplay by Jane Goldman. The film, an adaptation of Peter Ackroyd's 1994 murder mystery novel Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, stars Olivia...
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Harold Bloom, Riverhead Trade, 1995. Peter Ackroyd. Foreword to 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Peter Boxall (Editor). Universe Publishing,...
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Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (category Novels by Peter Ackroyd)
The Trial of Elizabeth Cree) is a 1994 novel by the English author Peter Ackroyd. It is a murder mystery framed within a story featuring real historical...
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Chatterton (novel) (category Novels by Peter Ackroyd)
Chatterton is a novel by Peter Ackroyd published on 1 January 1987 by Hamish Hamilton. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was commercially successful...
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London Under is a 2012 book by British biographer, novelist, and critic Peter Ackroyd about the history of underground London. The book '...is an introduction...
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critics worldwide and edited by Peter Boxall, Professor of English at Sussex University, with an introduction by Peter Ackroyd. Each title is accompanied by...
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of his less popular novels; British historian and Dickens biographer Peter Ackroyd has called it "one of Dickens's most neglected, but most rewarding,...
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Man Booker Prize Five authors have won the award twice: Margaret Atwood Peter Carey J. M. Coetzee J. G. Farrell Hilary Mantel The following writers have...
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docudrama on the life of the author Charles Dickens. It was presented by Peter Ackroyd, on whose biography of Dickens it was based, and Dickens was played...
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Dickens Fellowship. Archived January 27, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Peter Ackroyd 'Dickens' Published by Sinclair-Stevenson (1990) pg 266 'Eulogy for...
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London Seasons in 1834. Modern writers influenced by the city include Peter Ackroyd, author of London: The Biography, and Iain Sinclair, who writes in the...
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Queer City (category Books by Peter Ackroyd)
Present Day is a 2017 book by British biographer, novelist and critic Peter Ackroyd. Queer City follows the history and experiences of the LGBT population...
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bound by time in their images, to escape from the problems of language. Peter Ackroyd believes that it is impossible to paraphrase the content of the poem;...
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ISBN 0-19-812617-4 Peter Ackroyd 'Dickens' Published by Sinclair-Stevenson (1990) pg 605 Mary Dickens, Cornhill Magazine January 1885 Ackroyd, pg 627 'The Life...
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The House of Doctor Dee is a 1993 novel by the English author Peter Ackroyd. The main character, Matthew Palmer, inherits his father's house in London...
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66: Images of America's Main Street. McFarland. ISBN 9780786415533. Peter Ackroyd (2000). London: The Biography. Chatto & Windus. p. 207. ISBN 978-0385497701...
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