Victor had been stirred by my account of him in Makers And Finders, for Stephens was one of the lost writers whom Melville had seen in his childhood and whom I was bent on resurrecting.

This view was met with ridicule, but was later supported by Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melville in their 1848 monograph The Dodo and Its Kindred, which attempted to separate myth from reality.

He lost his father in 1791 and his mother in 1795 and was brought up by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.

Gray whaling in Magdalena Bay was revived in the winter of 1855-56 by several vessels, mainly from San Francisco, including the ship Leonore, under Captain Charles Melville Scammon.

Herman Melville ( August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891 ) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.

It was not until the " Melville Revival " in the early 20th century that his work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick, which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature.

Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819, the third of eight children of Allan and Maria Gansevoort Melvill.

His maternal grandfather was General Peter Gansevoort, a hero of the Battle of Saratoga ; in his gold-laced uniform, the general sat for a portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart, which is described in Melville's 1852 novel, Pierre, for Melville wrote out of his familial as well as his nautical background.

Omoo was not as colorful as Typee, and readers began to realize Melville was not just producing adventure stories.

Melville was tremendously inspired and encouraged by his new relationship with Hawthorne during the period that he was writing Moby-Dick ( dedicating it to Hawthorne ), though their friendship was on the wane only a short time later, when he wrote Pierre there.

We were somewhat startled at the remark, but still more at learning, a few days after, that Melville was really supposed to be deranged, and that his friends were taking measures to place him under treatment.

To repair his faltering finances, Melville listened to the advice of friends and decided to enter what was for others the lucrative field of lecturing.

But the publication failed miserably, and the unsold copies were burned when Melville was unable to afford to buy them at cost.

A common story says that his New York Times obituary called him " Henry Melville ", implying that he was unknown and unappreciated at his time of death, but the story is not true.

In 1945, the Melville Society was formed as a nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating Melville ’ s literary legacy.

In 2010 it was announced that a new species of extinct giant sperm whale, Livyatan melvillei was named in honor of Melville.

Melville ’ s idea for the college was that college residence and higher education should be economically viable to the financially disadvantaged.

A successful barrister, Melville Farr ( Dirk Bogarde ) has a thriving London practice.

She unsuccessfully contested the seat of East Melville at the 1983 election against sitting Liberal Party member Antony Trethowan, but was more successful in 1986 when she won the seat of Subiaco following the retirement of long-serving Liberal-turned-independent Dr Tom Dadour.

Jeff Pulver, noted VoIP proponent and owner of the successful VON conferences, incubated Vonage, then called Min-X. com, at his offices in Melville, New York between December 1999 and December 2000.

Roald Amundsen transitted the passage between the Island and the Melville Peninsula in the Gjøa in the first successful traverse of the Northwest Passage in 1904.

Although the expedition located only traces of Franklin's presence, Austin is credited with organising successful sledging expeditions along the coasts of several Canadian Arctic islands, including Bathurst, Byam Martin, Melville, and Prince of Wales Island.

From 1909 – 38 the Melville Brothers ran a successful series of spectacular melodramas.

In 1993 Pearson acted as representative to the traditional owners in the first land claim to the Flinders Island and Cape Melville National Parks, a claim which was successful, although the owners have yet to receive title.

* 1819 – Herman Melville, American writer ( d. 1891 )

In the early 1850s, in Pierre, Herman Melville focuses on a Hamlet-like character's long development as a writer.

Typee and Omoo gave Melville overnight notoriety as a writer and adventurer, and he often entertained by telling stories to his admirers.

Typee ( 1846 ; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life ) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva ( which Melville spelled as Nukuheva ) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

The title identifies the novel as a romance, probably of the dark romantic type as Hawthorne ( along with Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville ) was considered a dark romantic writer.

* James Melville of Halhill ( 1535 – 1617 ), Scottish diplomat and memoir writer

It has been called “ perhaps the most complete replenishment of the language since Whitman and ( in a different way ) Mark Twain … no writer since Melville has dived so deeply and fearlessly into this collective American ream as Coover has in this novel .”

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick.

Actress and writer Pauline Melville appears as Vyvyan's mother.

Sir James Melville ( 1535 – 1617 ) was a Scottish diplomat and memoir writer.

While Le Mesurier was undergoing his basic training, having been conscripted in September 1940, Melville would visit and le Mesurier noticed that she drank heavily.

After four voyages to India he was nominated to the command of the Melville Castle in the summer of 1793 ; but having begun a careful study of the Bible during his voyages, and also come under the evangelical influence of David Bogue of Gosport, one of the founders of the London Missionary Society, he abruptly decided to leave the navy for a religious life, and returned to Scotland.

Melville delivered his opinion to that effect in two long speeches with his accustomed freedom, and, having shortly afterwards written a sarcastic Latin epigram on some of the ritual practised in the chapel of Hampton Court Palace, and some eavesdropper having relayed it to the king, he was committed to the Tower of London, and detained for four years.

Judge Melville had temporarily exempted Jackson from having to stay in the U. S. until January 6, 2004, so that he could make a possible trip to Britain.

When Godard was having difficultly editing the film, Melville suggested that he just cut directly to the best parts of a shot.

The school is located within the catchment area of Melville Senior High School, having previously fallen within the John Curtin College of the Arts catchment area.