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In Flashman, Flashman says that the family fortune was made by his great-grandfather, Jack Flashman, in America trading in rum, slaves and " piracy too, I shouldn't wonder.
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Flashman and says
" The suggestion of Daniel Day-Lewis struck a chord with him and he says that although " He's probably getting on a bit ," he " might make a Flashman ...
Flashman and family
At one point, it is also mentioned that a member of the Flashman family was present at the Battle of Culloden, 1746.
Flashman and was
During the same year, British author George MacDonald Fraser published Flash for Freedom !, the third novel in the Flashman series that was set partially in Dahomey.
When the first book, Flashman, was published in the United States, ten of 34 reviews took it to be an obscure but real memoir.
( Allusions in Flash For Freedom and Flashman and the Redskins indicate that he did indeed fight on both sides in the war, but that it was part of some elaborate and dangerous intrigue instigated by Abraham Lincoln.
Flashman was a large man, six feet two inches ( 1. 88 m ) tall and close to 13 stone ( about 180 pounds or 82 kg ).
As he admitted in the Papers, Flashman was a coward, who would flee from danger if there was any way to do so, and on some occasions collapsed in funk.
Of course, Flashman arrived at the Fort by accident, collapsed in terror rather than fight, was forced to stand and show fight by his subordinate, and was ' rumbled ' for a complete coward.
Despite his admitted cowardice, Flashman was a dab hand at fighting when he had to.
Flashman surrendered to fear in front of witnesses only a few times, and was never caught out again.
Flashman was required to perform heroically in this conflict and was awarded the Victoria Cross and a knighthood.
He was not above forcing himself on a partner by blackmail ( e. g. the Russian countess in Flashman and the Dragon ), but only once committed an actual rape ( on Narreeman, in Flashman ).
The most memorable of these was Cleonie, a prostitute Flashman sold into slavery in Flashman and the Redskins.
Passages in Royal Flash, Flashman and the Dragon, Flashman and the Redskins, and Flashman and the Angel of the Lord suggest that Flashman was " well-hung ".
The one woman he raped was Narreeman, an Afghan dancing girl ( Flashman ).
Flashman and made
Sobered by his experience with Lester, Fraser said that further film adaptations of the Flashman books have not been made because he " will not let anyone else have control of the script ... and that simply does not happen in Hollywood.
Flashman and by
* Frederick Douglass appears in Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, by George MacDonald Fraser.
* The Flashman books by George MacDonald Fraser are supposedly edited versions of the title character's memoirs.
Kit Carson also appears in Flashman and the Redskins ( 1982 ) by George MacDonald Fraser.
* Montez also appears in Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser, where she has a brief affair with Harry Flashman.
Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser ( 1925 – 2008 ), but based on the character " Flashman " in Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1857 ), a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes ( 1822 – 1896 ).
Flashman survived the ensuing debacle by a mixture of sheer luck and unstinting cowardice.
A script for a Flashman film adaptation was written by Frank Muir in 1969, to star John Alderton, and is mentioned in his autobiography A Kentish Lad.
It was directed by Richard Lester and starred Malcolm McDowell as Flashman, Oliver Reed as Otto von Bismarck and Alan Bates as Rudi von Sternberg.
* In Flashman at the Charge Flashman is forced by Yakub Beg to shoot Congreve rockets against the Russian army during the period of the Crimean War.
* Flashman and the Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser: Sir Harry Paget Flashman travels on the train's first journey as a guest of the journalist Henri Blowitz.
( It was in this role that he was portrayed in the historical fiction novels Flashman and Flashman at the Charge by George MacDonald Fraser.
Flashman and I
* Flashman and the Redskins Part I: 1849-1850, The Wild West: the Forty-Niners,
Brooke is also featured in Flashman's Lady, the 6th book in George MacDonald Fraser's meticulously researched Flashman novels ; and in Sandokan: The Pirates of Malaysia ( I pirati della Malesia ), the second novel in Emilio Salgari's Sandokan series.
Wodehouse in his review of the first Flashman novel that came to his attention: " Now I understand what that ‘ when a new planet swims into his ken ’ excitement is all about.
Wodehouse said of Flashman, " If ever there was a time when I felt that ' watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet ' stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman.
In 1995, Barnet goalkeeper, coach and manager Gary Phillips said of Flashman, " A lot of people knock Stan and I had my runs ins with him as much as anyone but at the end of the day he did save the place once.
Flashman and .
Several short-lived papers also appeared a few years later – the St Helena Times ( 1889 ), the Monthly Critic and Flashman ( 1895 ) and the St Helena Observer.
* George Macdonald Fraser's novel Flashman in the Great Game ( 1975 ) makes references to the " cult " of Thuggee, while the phrase: " pass the tobacco " is used as a verbal signal for the killing to begin.
George MacDonald Fraser's novels about Harry Flashman ( 1969 ) combine the picaresque with historical fiction.
In Hughes ' book, Flashman ( a relatively minor character ) is a notorious bully at Rugby School who persecutes Tom Brown, and who is finally expelled for drunkenness.
" Fraser's Flashman is an antihero who runs from danger or hides cowering in fear, betrays or abandons acquaintances at the slightest incentive, bullies and beats servants with gusto, beds every available woman, carries off any loot he can grab, and gambles and boozes enthusiastically.
Fraser gave Flashman a lifespan from 1822 to 1915 and a birth-date of 5 May.
" Despite their wealth, the Flashmans " were never the thing ": Flashman quotes the diarist Henry Greville's comment that " the coarse streak showed through, generation after generation, like dung beneath a rosebush.
For the American publication, Fraser created a fictional entry for Flashman in the 1909 edition of Who's Who.
In Flashman and the Tiger, he mentions that one of his grandchildren has black hair and eyes, resembling him in his younger years.
After his expulsion from Rugby School for drunkenness, the young Flashman looked for an easy life.
Flashman threw himself into the social life that the 11th offered and became a leading light of Canterbury society.
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