Anderson lives in Highbury, north London, with his wife and three children ; Isabella, Flora and Edmund.

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Orwell's investigation of poverty in The Road to Wigan Pier strongly resembles that of Jack London's The People of the Abyss, in which the American journalist disguises himself as an out-of-work sailor in order to investigate the lives of the poor in London.

The articles comprising London Labour and the London Poor were initially collected into three volumes in 1851 ; the 1861 edition included a fourth volume, co-written with Bracebridge Hemyng, John Binny and Andrew Halliday, on the lives of prostitutes, thieves and beggars.

In 2000 there was a fatal rail crash on the line that runs through the town from London to York, in which four people lost their lives.

Stark lives in London and has been a practising Buddhist since 1994.

After his failure to capture the five members and fearing for his family's lives, Charles left London for Oxford.

One by one he discovered the authors that would influence his later work: Jack London and his stories of reincarnation and past lives, most notably The Star Rover ( 1915 ); Rudyard Kipling's tales of subcontinent adventure and his chanting, shamanic verse ; the classic mythological tales collected by Thomas Bulfinch.

Almost one-third of the population lives in England's southeast which is predominantly urban and suburban, with about 8 million in the capital city of London, the population density of which is just under 13, 000 per square mile.

* March 18 – In the worst school disaster in American history in terms of lives lost, the New London School in New London, Texas suffers a catastrophic natural gas explosion, killing in excess of 295 students and teachers.

Two great cities, Osaka and Sakaii, have been burned to the ground, each one almost as big as London, and not one house left standing, and it is reported above 300, 000 men have lost their lives, “ yet the old Emperor Ogusho Same hath prevailed and Fidaia Same either been slain or fled secretly away, that no news is to be heard of him .” Jesuits, priests, and friars are banished by the emperor and their churches and monasteries pulled down ; they put the fault on the arrival of the English ; it is said if Fidaia Same had prevailed against the emperor, he promised them entrance again, when without doubt all the English would have been driven out of Japan.

( 1993 ) Weber, The Illustrated lives of the great composers, New ed., London: Omnibus, ISBN 0-7119-2081-8

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and lives in London with his second wife, Carole.

Mrs. Louisa Wilberforce ( Katie Johnson ) is a sweet and eccentric old widow who lives alone with her raucous parrots in a gradually subsiding " lopsided " house, built over the entrance to a railway tunnel, in King's Cross, London.

* Turner, Adrian " Robert Bolt: Scenes from two lives " ( Hutchinson, London 1998 )

She is married with two children and lives in London.

It was during this terrible period in Dickens ' childhood that he observed the lives of the men, women, and children in the most impoverished areas of London and witnessed the social injustices they suffered.

Tony Wendice is an ex-professional tennis player who lives in a London flat with his wealthy wife Margot.

Jane is a young woman from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, whose father Steve is a retired Mountie ; her mother Ann is a journalist, and she has two older sisters ( all back in Canada ) and a great-aunt Grace who lives near London.

Bennett lives in Camden Town in London, and shares his home with Rupert Thomas, the editor of World of Interiors magazine.

* Olympic rowing silver medallist and the coach of Imperial College London Rowing team Bill Mason, lives in Hounslow.

Amis's London protagonists are anti-heroes: they engage in questionable behaviour, are passionate iconoclasts, and strive to escape the apparent banality and futility of their lives.

Mr Benn lives in London at 52 Festive Road ; David McKee used to live " next door " at 54 Festing Road, where current residents have come together to install an engraved paving slab in his honor.

In the range and variety of characters who, in their literary lives, get along all right with life styles one never imagined possible, there is an implicit lesson in differentiation.

These moments are historical events in the lives of individual authors with which the student of comparative literature must be frequently concerned.

The Gortonists were charged with blasphemy and tried for their lives.

These lives are in themselves outside of the moral order and are unburdened with moral responsibility.

With the knowledge that the kingdom comes by obedience to the moral law in our relations with all people, we have a firm intellectual grasp on both the means and the ends of our lives.

-- since, as Courtenay says, `` Nobody should play with lives the way we do unless he's motivated by the highest ideals ''.

He wondered how they could go on in poverty, superstition, ignorance, with a complete lack of desire to make either their land or their lives flourish.

that aside from due notification of certain major events in their lives ( two marriages, two births, one divorce ), Christmas and Easter cards of the traditional sort had been the only thin link she had with them through the widowed years.

The policy officer lives with his antennae alerted for the questions which fall within his range of responsibility.

It might be that certain people were born with a compulsion to complicate their lives, while others could live blissfully motionless almost indefinitely, like lizards in the sun, too indolent to blink their eyes.

Keep occupied to the point you are not bored with life and you will truly find these final days and years of your lives to be sunshine sweet.

Many of them paid for their curiosity with their lives, for some minutes later the first giant wave roared over the shore.

What is noteworthy about this large group of teen-agers is that, although their attitudes hardly differentiate them from their gentile counterparts, they actually lead their lives in a vast self-enclosed Jewish cosmos with relatively little contact with the non-Jewish world.

If one lives near a subway or an express parkway, the solution is to have one's wines stored with a dealer and brought home a few at a time.

In talks with Mr. Buckley last week in Washington, the Mayor apparently received the Bronx leader's assent to dropping Controller Lawrence E. Gerosa, who lives in the Bronx, from this year's ticket.

The Mayor declined in two interviews with reporters yesterday to confirm or deny the reports that he had decided to run and wanted Mr. Screvane, who lives in Queens, to replace Abe Stark, the incumbent, as the candidate for President of the City Council and Mr. Beame, who lives in Brooklyn, to replace Mr. Gerosa as the candidate for Controller.

Now a family man with three children, Fiedler lives in a quiet residential area near the Lockheed plant at Sunnyvale.

Before he testified for 20 minutes, Stein, who lives at 3300 Lake Shore Dr., admitted to reporters that he had a wide acquaintance with crime syndicate hoodlums.

Huff lives with his wife, Sue, and their four children, 6 to 10 years old, in a $25,000 home with a $17,000 mortgage.

Generally, they go to school with a girl named Gloriana, who lives down the block, and has a car.

Education must not be limited to our youth but must be a continuing process through our entire lives, for it is only through knowledge that we, as a nation, can cope with the dangers that threaten our society.

Yet the spirit which lives in community is not identical with the community.