By her own prior arrangement, she was first buried in the Abbey's churchyard, as an act of repentance for her many misdeeds.

His first act was to storm and sack Peterborough Abbey in 1070, in company with local men and Swein's Danes: his justification is said to have been that he wished to save the Abbey's treasures and relics from the Normans.

Desert Solitaire, Abbey's fourth book and first non-fiction work, was published in 1968.

He also opened Abbey's Theatre in 1890, one of the first theatrical managers to present expensive shows outside of the major cities.

It is also the memory of Professor Bernard Quatermass grappling with the pulsating giant plant that threatened to destroy the world from its rooting place in the Abbey's nave … The Quatermass Experiment frightened the life out of a vast new generation of television viewers whose sets had been acquired in order to watch the Coronation … Quatermass was one of the first series on British television to make life seem potentially terrifying.

Edward Abbey's first work covering Hayduke was in 1975.

' Even Abbey's new friend Edward Hoagland -- who had first written to him on March 19, 1970 praising Desert Solitaire -- lamented in the New York Times Book Review that Black Sun was " not a masterpiece " like Desert Solitaire, complaining that " he does not always finish his books but publishes next-to-last drafts.

Albaxen had its first documentary mention, under the name Albachtessen, on the occasion of the neighbouring Corvey Abbey's founding in 822, and by 900 it was already known by its current name.

In 854, Lüchtringen was first mentioned under the name Lutringi ( 12 different spellings, including Luhtringi and Luchtringi ) in the Corvey Abbey's annals and beginning in 1230 it belonged to the fourth archdeaconate of Höxter-Corvey of the Bishopric of Paderborn.

It was first recorded in Lorsch Abbey ( Germany ), for which it was presumably written, and where it was mentioned as Evangelium scriptum cum auro pictum habens tabulas eburneas in the catalogue of the Abbey's library, compiled in 830 under Abbot Adelung.

Jonathan Troy ( 1954 ) was Edward Abbey's first published novel, as detailed in James M. Cahalan's biography of Abbey.

Much of the inspiration for the book, as well as the term " monkeywrenching ", came from Edward Abbey's 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang.

* Edward Abbey's novel The Monkey Wrench Gang describes the fictional efforts of a group of environmentalists who fantasize about blowing up the dam.

Easily Abbey's most famous fiction work, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the American Southwest, and was so influential that the term " monkeywrench " has come to mean, besides sabotage and damage to machines, any sabotage, activism, law-making, or law-breaking to preserve wilderness, wild spaces and ecosystems.

and the activities of those such as " The Fox " and the " Eco-Raiders ," may have inspired Edward Abbey's 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang and Dave Foreman's 1985 book Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching.

Edward Abbey's " fat masterpiece " and a classic of 20th-century Americana, the 1989 publication of The Fool's Progress heralded the final word ( though not the final novel ) of one of the country's finest prose artists and defenders of freedom and wilderness.

It was Abbey's third published novel and followed Jonathan Troy and The Brave Cowboy.

Abbey's disgust with the novel was immediate.

In 1984 Abbey was quoted by William Plummer in " Edward Abbey's Desert Solecisms " as saying that Jonathan Troy " was a disgusting novel, fortunately long out of print.

The Brave Cowboy ( 1956 ) was Edward Abbey's second published novel, as detailed in James M. Cahalan's biography of Abbey.

He is also a major character in Abbey's science fiction novel, Good News.

A third film based on Abbey's most popular novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, is currently in production and expected to be released in 2012.

Lonely Are the Brave was made after star Kirk Douglas read Edward Abbey's novel Brave Cowboy and insisted that Universal film it as a vehicle for him to star in. It happens to be a point of view I love.

He was a friend of author Edward Abbey, and served as the model for the character George Hayduke in Abbey's famous novel The Monkey Wrench Gang.

The contempt Jonathan shows for the residents of his home town was a hard blow to people Abbey knew in high school, a fact that may have had something to do with Abbey's later regret at having published this book.

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

( 1964 ), The Faith Healer ( 1979 ) and Dancing at Lughnasa ( 1990 ); Tom Murphy's A Whistle In the Dark ( 1961 ) and The Gigli Concert ( 1983 ); and Hugh Leonard's Da ( 1973 ) and A Life ( 1980 ), helped raise the Abbey's international profile through successful runs in the West End in London, and on Broadway in New York City.

From end to end it measures 312 feet ( 95 m ), though prior to the destruction of the original Lady Chapel ( also at the time of the dissolution ), the Abbey's total length was 375 feet ( 114 m ).

But since about 2000, Rowe's increasing involvement with what has become known as " electroacoustic improvisation " (" eai " for short ), especially under the aegis of Jon Abbey's Erstwhile Records, meant that more of his musical activities began to take place outside AMM.

The Monkey Wrench Gang was one of Abbey's better-known books ( cover of 10th anniversary edition, 1985 ), and was an inspiration for radical environmental groups, such as Earth First!

She remained at Abbey's, playing several roles, but when that theatre shut down in 1896, she played in other Broadway houses in more operettas by Offenbach ( such as The Princess of Trebizonde and many others ), Victor Herbert and others, such as the Erminie ( at the Casino Theatre ) in 1899.

It has been in turn, a prosperous Abbey, a Jacobean Mansion ( painted by Turner ), an iron foundry ( which explains the Abbey's position in the middle of an industrial area ) and now an historical monument.

The Abbey's stained glass is particularly noteworthy, including early work by Edward Burne-Jones in the rose window and lancets of the east wall, and A K Nicholson in the Lady Chapel.

St Swithun's, Crampmoor, is Romsey Abbey's daughter church.

Abbey's master's thesis explored anarchism and the morality of violence, asking the two questions: " To what extent is the current association between anarchism and violence warranted?

It is often stated that Abbey's works played a significant role in precipitating the creation of Earth First !.

The date of the Abbey's charter, March 29, 1125, is taken as the foundation date, making it the 10th oldest school in England, although there are hints that there may have been a school running in Reading before this.

For the Gang, the enemy is those who would develop the US Southwest — despoiling the land, befouling the air, and destroying Nature and the sacred purity of Abbey's desert world.

* From the Houston Chronicle, " What a thing of beauty is Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang.

The larger is the Abbey's Basilica of St Willibrord, now surrounded by the eighteenth-century abbey ( today a high school ) and is located in the heart of the town's historical centre.

The Abbey's many endowments included the Chapel of St. James and St. Peter, near Shaftesbury, Dorset, and the manor of Blynfield in the parish of St. James, which is known as the ' Manor of Alcester and Bec ', together with a number of other churches and estates.

from Edward Abbey's book The Monkey Wrench Gang which is a fictional account of a gang of four individuals who take on a pointless yet deeply symbolic effort to destroy and thus halt the machines of human expansion and putative " progress " in the American Southwest.

George Washington Hayduke is a fictional character in Edward Abbey's novels The Monkey Wrench Gang and Hayduke Lives!

Hayduke is Abbey's codification of the wants, longings, and desires of the average male environmentalist awash in the frustrations of corporate greed and corruption where the voice of the little people remain unheard — until the little people rise up and take direct action because, as Abbey's Monkey Wrench Gang puts it, " somebody has to do it.

It is the name of George Washington Hayduke, a fictional character based on Edward Abbey's friend Doug Peacock in Abbey's cult classics The Monkey Wrench Gang and Hayduke Lives !.

In the Season 2 episode " Ellie ", President Bartlet wistfully says that his middle daughter is " all Abbey's " and hasn't been close to him.

" He is however spoken of disparagingly by the chronicling monk Matthew Paris, of St Albans Abbey, for unfairly denying legaljudgement in the Abbey's favour after a monk had been attacked and robbed by his protégé Geoffrey of Childwick.

An over life-size statue of Sir John Malcolm by Sir Francis Chantrey is in Westminster Abbey's North Transept.

Contemporary accounts include payments for the dismantling and carriage of the Abbey's choir and nave roof, and is believed that the pillars which now separate the Minster's south aisle from the nave came from the Abbey.

Waltham Abbey's nearest railway station is Waltham Cross, which provides a frequent service to London Liverpool Street.