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Hace 4 días · Correspondents include his publisher Methuen & Co., Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland, the author Rupert Hyde-Davis, the British Home Office regarding access to government records and prisons, and friends and colleagues who wrote to Hyde with opinions of his manuscript and book.
15 de ago. de 2024 · Speranza taught Wilde to appreciate folklore. 10 According to Vyvyan Holland, Wilde's tales reveal that he inherited Sir William's authority on folklore combined with Speranza's violent...
17 de ago. de 2024 · In later years, Wilde’s second son, Vyvyan Holland, was a Sette member, 'Idler', and was also a good friend of Gould's. Another great friend was the biologist and microscopist Edward Heron-Allen (1861–1943), ‘Necromancer’, who had joined the Sette back in 1883.
16 de ago. de 2024 · On graduating in 1965 I bought the Vyvyan Holland English translation of Ma Cuisine. I thought it fitting that its translator was the son of the author of the play in which I appeared eight years before and for which I had been given the original book.
Hace 3 días · The present baronet is the Rev. Sir Carew Vyvyan, Bart., who has no issue. The heir-presumptive is Vyell Vyvyan, Esq., of Trelowarren, descended from Richard, second son of Sir Richard, the third baronet, by the heiress of Pyper, of Tresmarrow.
25 de ago. de 2024 · Richard Plunket Greene, Olivia Plunket Greene, David Plunket Greene, Terence Greenidge, Elizabeth Frances Russell, and Evelyn Waugh.. The Bright Young Things, or Bright Young People, [1] [2] was a term given by the tabloid press to a group of Bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in 1920s London. [3] They threw flamboyant fancy dress parties, went on elaborate treasure hunts through ...
Hace 1 día · Dutch troops in the province of Zealand continued to resist the Wehrmacht until 17 May, when Germany completed its occupation of the whole country. The invasion of the Netherlands saw some of the earliest mass paratroop drops, to occupy tactical points and assist the advance of ground troops.
