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Marian Engel ( 1933-1985 ) was an award winning Canadian novelist and passionate activist for the national and international writer ’ s cause ; Timothy Findley ( 1930-2002 ) was an influential Canadian novelist and playwright.
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She was the recipient of a Canada Council Major Award, two National Magazine Awards, the 1990 Marian Engel Award, the Canadian Author's Award, and a CBC short story award.
In 1995, she was awarded the Marian Engel Award, and in 1999, she won the Giller Prize for her novel, A Good House.
Her second poetry book, The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring, was a finalist for the Lowther Award in 1997, and her first novel, Excessive Joy Injures the Heart, was chosen one of the ten best books of the year by The Toronto Star in 2000. Also in 2000 Mrs. Harvor won the Alden Nowlan Award, in 2003 the Marian Engel Award, and in 2004 the Malahat Novella Prize for " Across Some Dark Avenue of Plot He Carried Her Body.
From 1962 to 1978 he was married to Marian Engel, a noted Canadian writer of literary fiction who died in 1985.
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Mary Anne ( alternatively Mary Ann or Marian ) Evans ( 22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880 ), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
Calvin's greatest contribution to the English-speaking community was his sheltering of Marian exiles in Geneva starting in 1555.
He was the homonymous and thus presumably the eldest son of Marcus Antonius Creticus ( praetor 74 BC, proconsul 73 – 71 BC ) and grandson of the noted orator Marcus Antonius ( consul 99 BC, censor 97 – 6 BC ) who had been murdered during the Marian Terror of the winter of 87 – 6 BC.
Richardson was born in Southport, Lancashire, to Marian Georgina ( née Townsend ), a housewife, and William Alan Richardson, a marketing executive.
Puritanism in this sense was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergies shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1558, as an activist movement within the Church of England.
Desmond once told Marian McPartland of National Public Radio's Piano Jazz that he was taken aback by the chord changes Brubeck introduced during that 1944 audition.
Prior to the Marian reforms ( see below ) the heavy infantry was subdivided, according to experience, into three separate lines of troops:
Both Robin and Marian were certainly associated with May Day festivities in England ( as was Friar Tuck ), but these may have been originally two distinct types of performance – Alexander Barclay in his Ship of Fools, writing in c. 1500, refers to " some merry fytte of Maid Marian or else of Robin Hood " – but the characters were brought together.
To A Friend and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a play The Foresters, or Robin Hood and Maid Marian, which was presented with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan in 1892.
Wright was offered the role of Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, but turned it down because she was pregnant.
Mary's main goal was to restore the Catholic faith to England ; however, the Marian Persecutions were unpopular with the Protestant majority of England, though naturally supported by the Catholic minority.
Witold Marian Gombrowicz ( August 4, 1904 in Małoszyce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – July 24, 1969 in Vence, near Nice, France ) was a Polish novelist and dramatist.
" Rightist-nationalist deviation " ( Polish: odchylenie prawicowo-nacjonalistyczne ) was a political propaganda term used by the Polish Stalinists against prominent activists, such as Władysław Gomułka and Marian Spychalski who opposed Soviet involvement in the Polish interior affairs, as well as internationalism displayed by the creation of the Cominform and the subsequent merger that created the PZPR.
He was given command of the right wing in the Battle of the Colline Gate when the remaining Marian adherents and the surviving Samnites marched on Rome in a last-ditch bid to oust Sulla from Rome.
Meanwhile, Pompey was fighting in Hispania against Quintus Sertorius, the last effective Marian general, without notable advantage.
He issued a record eleven encyclicals on the rosary, approved two new Marian scapulars and was the first Pope to fully embrace the concept of Mary as mediatrix.
However at the time of their February 1880 breakthrough, Bell was immensely proud of the achievement, to the point that he wanted to name his new second daughter " Photophone ", which was subtly discouraged by his wife Mabel Bell ( they instead chose Marian, with Daisy as her moniker ).
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