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In The Diary of a Nobody the Grossmiths create an accurate, if amusing, record of the manners, customs and experiences of lower-middle-class, suburban Londoners of the late Victorian era.
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Several British humour classics were first serialised in Punch, such as the Diary of a Nobody and 1066 and All That.
* Charles Pooter, fictional diarist in the classic 19th century novel Diary of a Nobody, lived in the fictional Brickfield Terrace, Holloway.
George and Weedon Grossmith locate their aspirational Mr Pooter in Tufnell Park ( Upper Holloway ) in Diary of a Nobody.
* The Diary of a Nobody, an English comic novel written by George Grossmith and his brother Weedon Grossmith.
Walter Weedon Grossmith ( 9 June 1854 – 14 June 1919 ), better known as Weedon Grossmith, was an English writer, painter, actor and playwright, best known as co-author of The Diary of a Nobody ( 1892 ) with his famous brother, music hall comedian and Gilbert and Sullivan star, George Grossmith.
The Diary of a Nobody is an English comic novel written by George Grossmith and his brother Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by Weedon.
* A gamer named Equus456 created The Diary of a Nobody trivia quiz game at the the online trivia and quiz community, FunTriva. com.
* In 2004, blogger Kevan Davis began publishing a daily weblog version of The Diary of a Nobody at Diaryofanobody. net.
Irving's idiosyncratic style of acting and its effect on amateur players was mildly satirised in The Diary of a Nobody.
The road also features heavily as the home of a fictionalised Meek in Jake Arnott's The Long Firm trilogy, and was the setting for George and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody.
A row of Victorian houses, numbers 726 – 732, opposite Upper Holloway railway station, stands at the described location of the fictional Brickfield Terrace in Diary of a Nobody.
Diary and Grossmiths
Many etymology sites give an earliest date for the use of " skivvy " as a term for a maid of all work in middle class English households as 1902, but the term is used earlier in George and Weedon Grossmiths " Diary of a Nobody " of 1888 and it appears to have been in familiar currency at that date.
Diary and create
Achbar collaborated with editor Jennifer Abbott to create Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage, a low-budget video diary by the couple known as Canada's first legally married lesbians.
A student of Aleister Crowley ( he was working on a script for a film version of Crowley's Diary of a Drug Fiend before he died ), he began to blend Tibetan mysticism with his music to create sound through various drone techniques.
His reputation as a diarist led Letts of London to create a diary modeled on his recommendations called " The Ellis Diary ".
In 2000, Abbott collaborated with director Mark Achbar to create Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage ( 2000 ).
Diary and if
The techniques ( if not always the spirit ) of cinéma vérité can also be seen in fiction films such as The Battle of Algiers, The Blair Witch Project, Children of Men, Jimmy and Judy, Rachel Getting Married, Cloverfield, Diary of the Dead, District 9, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-Part 1, Battle: Los Angeles, REC, Saving Private Ryan and Paranormal Activity, The Zombinator among others.
As seen in the third week, housemates could be seen by a medical professional in the Diary Room if necessary.
Powter eventually appeared in the twelfth episode, " Dear Diary ," and it was left open for her character to have a heavy recurring role if the series had continued.
" In Diary of the Dead ( 2007, post Dawn of the Dead remake ) the director of the student horror film tells his living dead actor ( a mummy, in this case ) not to move quickly because " if you run that fast your ankles are going to snap off.
Diary and record
His Old Man's Diary ( 1871-72 ) is an interesting record, though even here the taint of fabrication is not absent.
: First official record: John Manningham mentions in his Diary having seen the play performed in February 1602
* Larkin, Philip, All What Jazz: A Record Diary ( record reviews for the Daily Telegraph, 1961 – 71 ) ( London: Faber, rev.
A quarterly survey known as the Travelcard Diary Survey is undertaken, where travelcard holders are asked to record all the bus, rail and tube trips they have made using their travelcard.
In 2007 he teamed up with Silksound Books to record The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith as an online audiobook.
In an interview with the Audrie's Diary fanzine in 1994, Sutton explained " Most people, to get a big reverb sound, will record something and then run it through a reverb unit.
A romance, Sir Edward Seaward's Diary ( 1831 ), purporting to be a record of actual circumstances, and edited by Jane, was written by her brother, Dr. William Ogilvie Porter, as letters in the University of Durham Porter archives show.
Damis admired Apollonius so much that he became his disciple, and kept a record of Apollonius ' actions and sayings, the so-called Memoirs ( or Diary ) of Damis.
Another major document in an Indian Police station is the Station General Diary which is used to record every major incident ( e. g. theft, murder, traffic accidents ) happening within the jurisdiction of the police station on a daily basis.
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