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    (293 hectares), Little Gidding recorded a population of 22 in the 1991 British Census. With the neighbouring villages of Great Gidding (where the population...
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  • Little Gidding is the fourth and final poem of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, a series of poems that discuss time, perspective, humanity, and salvation....
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  • The Little Gidding community was an extended family and religious group based at Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire (now in Cambridgeshire), England, in...
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  • Eliot composed the other three poems, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding, which were written during World War II and the air-raids on Great Britain...
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    Nicholas Ferrar (category People from Little Gidding)
    Company and retreated with his extended family in 1626 to the manor of Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire, for his remaining years, in an informal spiritual...
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    with his life dates, his Order of Merit, and a quotation from his poem Little Gidding, "the communication / of the dead is tongued with fire beyond / the...
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  • Giddings is a locational surname derived from a group of villages in Cambridgeshire, England, called Great Gidding, Little Gidding and Steeple Gidding...
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    the Little Gidding community. Since there was no formal Rule (such as the Rule of Saint Benedict), no vows taken, and no enclosure, Little Gidding cannot...
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    Mary Ferrar (category People from Little Gidding)
    matriarch of the Ferrar family who with her son Nicholas Ferrar founded the Little Gidding religious community in Huntingdonshire in 1625. She was born in 1551...
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  • with He Who Remains, he recites two verses from T. S. Eliot's poem "Little Gidding" (1942) from his Four Quartets collection: "We die with the dying. We...
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  • Gidding is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Gidding (1853–1943), United States Navy sailor John Gidding (born 1977), American...
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    and all manner of thing shall be well" three times into his poem "Little Gidding", the fourth of his Four Quartets (1943), as well as Julian's "the ground...
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    Catworth; Copmanford; Covington; Easton; Ellington; Great Gidding; Little Gidding; Steeple Gidding; Grafham; Hamerton; Keyston; Kimbolton; Leighton Bromswold;...
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    The episode is the basis for a section of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, Little Gidding IV, mirroring the greater theme of the poem. Nessus appears as a boss...
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  • where we started / And know the place for the first time' (T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding, lines 241-42). The Prelude opens with a literal journey [during his...
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    Gidding, Little Gidding and Steeple Gidding Little Gidding, Cambridgeshire from a blog by James P. Miller (with photographs) St John's Church, Little...
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  • form include W. H. Auden ("The Sea and the Mirror"), T. S. Eliot ("Little Gidding"), Robert Frost ("Acquainted with the Night"), Elizabeth Jennings, Philip...
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  • Litlington Little Abington Little Chishill Little Ditton Little Downham Little Eversden Little Gidding Little Gransden Little Ouse Little Paxton Littleport...
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  • film by Ray Yeung Four Quartets, a set of poems by T. S. Eliot, whose "Little Gidding" quotes Julian's words This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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  • years older than Ted. One of their mother's ancestors had founded the Little Gidding community. Most of the more recent generations of the family had worked...
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  • 1688) was an English bookbinder and sericulturist involved with the Little Gidding community in Cambridgeshire. She was born on Christmas Eve 1627. Her...
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  • Houghton, Keyston, Kimbolton, Kings Ripton, Leighton Bromswold, Little Gidding, Little Stukeley, Lower Dean, Molesworth, Old Hurst, Old Weston, Perry,...
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  • divines and with the pietistic emphases of the period, practised by the Little Gidding community, such as fasting and lengthy preparations before receiving...
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    Dorothy, although Eliot was unaware of this arrangement. It generated very little interest until after the publication of The Waste Land, and did not sell...
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    Folksworth and Washingley Glatton, Grafham, Great Gransden, Great, Little and Steeple Gidding, Great Paxton, Great Staughton Haddon, Hail Weston, Hamerton,...
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    "a character to the household almost resembling that of Little Gidding". The Little Gidding community in Huntingdonshire was much idealized by 19th-century...
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  • scythe." T. S. Eliot, after his conversion to Anglicanism, wrote in "Little Gidding" (one of his Four Quartets): "Love is the unfamiliar Name / Behind the...
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  • orders in Anglicanism, although some informal communities – such as the Little Gidding community – occasionally sprang into being. With the advent of the Oxford...
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    in the village of Adderbury, close to Banbury. He named the cottage "Little Gidding" after one of Eliot's Four Quartets. Burgess cut his journalistic teeth...
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    all abolished and merged into Peterborough in 1929 Hamerton and Steeple Gidding (ancient parishes merged 2010) Hartford (ancient parish merged into Huntingdon...
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