While at Cambridge, Mirrlees developed a close relationship with famous classicist Jane Ellen Harrison, Mirrlees ' tutor and later her friend and collaborator.

Mirrlees and Harrison lived together from 1913 until the elder's death in 1928.

* Jane Harrison Gallery Contains a photo of Mirrlees with Jane Ellen Harrison

In 1948, Mirrlees moved to South Africa and remained there until 1963, when the first volume of her " extravagant biography " of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton was published ( the second volume is unpublished ).

Mirrlees later used medieval Spanish culture as part of the background of her second novel, The Counterplot ( 1924 ).

Since 2000, Mirrlees ' work has undergone another resurgence in popularity, marked by new editions of her poetry, an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography and several scholarly essays by critic Julia Briggs, new introductions to Lud-in-the-Mist by writer Neil Gaiman and scholar Douglas A. Anderson, essays and a brief biography by writer Michael Swanwick, and translations of Lud-in-the-Mist into German and Spanish.

Mirrlees had Spanish antecedents, generally born without earlobes and Fleming used this physical attribute for Blofeld.

Mirrlees optimal income tax is a detailed theoretical model of the optimum progressive income tax along these lines.

Stardust has a different tone and style from most of Gaiman's prose fiction, being consciously written in the tradition of pre-Tolkien English fantasy, following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsany and Hope Mirrlees.

The CUHK has a great achievement in physical science and mathematics and is the only tertiary education institution in Hong Kong with Nobel Prize Laureates serving as professors, including Chen Ning Yang, James Mirrlees, Robert Alexander Mundell and Charles K. Kao ( Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, 2009 ).

Other railway engineering assets were acquired, including Westinghouse Brake & Signal and the engine builder Mirrlees Blackstone, which came with the Brush businesses.

Hope Mirrlees ( 1887 – 1978 ) was a British translator, poet and novelist.

Born in Chislehurst, Kent and raised in Scotland and South Africa, Mirrlees attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before going up to Newnham College, Cambridge to study Greek.

Both of them studied Russian, Mirrlees earning a Diploma in Russian from the École des Langues Orientales of Paris, and went on to collaborate on translations from the Russian.

After Harrison's death, Mirrlees converted to Catholicism.

Mirrlees was a friend of Virginia Woolf, who described her in a letter as " her own heroine – capricious, exacting, exquisite, very learned, and beautifully dressed.

" Her circle of celebrity friends also included T. S. Eliot ; Gertrude Stein, who mentions Mirrlees in " Everybody's Autobiography "; Bertrand Russell ; and Lady Ottoline Morrell.

Mirrlees died in Thames Bank, Goring, England, in 1978.

Mirrlees ' 600-line modernist poem, Paris: A Poem, published in 1918 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press, was the subject of considerable study by scholar Julia Briggs, and is considered by some literary critics to have had an influence on the work of her friend, T. S. Eliot, and on that of Virginia Woolf.

Mirrlees set her first novel, Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists ( 1919 ), in and around the literary circles of the 17th Century Précieuses, and particularly those salons frequented by Mlle de Scudéry.

Hope-in-the-Mist, a book-length study of Mirrlees and her work by Michael Swanwick, was published by Temporary Culture in 2009.

Sandeep Parmar is currently writing a biography of Mirrlees as well.

Beatle George Harrison had once visited Haight-Ashbury and found it to be just a haven for dropouts, inspiring him to give up LSD.

Harrison met Shankar in London in 1966 and visited India for six weeks to study sitar under Shankar in Srinagar.

Several U. S. Presidents visited Bowen's summer home on Woodstock Hill: Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, and Rutherford B. Hayes, as his guests and speakers for 4 July celebrations.

Long Branch is home to Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park, named for the United States presidents who visited the fashionable resort town, including Ulysses S. Grant, Chester A. Arthur, Rutherford Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson and James Garfield.

It was visited by presidents Chester A. Arthur, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley, and Woodrow Wilson.

In 1992 Harrison visited the Maharishi and apologized for his behaviour and that of his band mates.

In 1891 he pointedly snubbed President Benjamin Harrison when Harrison visited Oregon on a campaign tour.

In 1833, he visited Vincennes, Indiana where he sketched the first known drawing of Grouseland, the mansion of William Henry Harrison.

When the appointment did not come, Prendergast visited Harrison at his home on October 28, 1893, admitted by a maid who went to wake the mayor.

The Golden Lamb has been visited by twelve American Presidents: William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, Warren G. Harding, William Howard Taft, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush.

Although Peter Brown believed that Lennon's source for the lyric was the Tibetan Book of the Dead itself, which, he said, Lennon read whilst consuming LSD, George Harrison later stated that the idea for the lyrics came from Leary's, Alpert's and Metzner's book and Paul McCartney confirmed this, stating that he and Lennon had visited the newly opened Indica bookshop — Lennon was looking for a copy of The Portable Nietzsche — and Lennon had found a copy of The Psychedelic Experience that contained the lines: " When in doubt, relax, turn off your mind, float downstream ".

Surfers using redwood boards have visited San Onofre since at least the 1940s, including notables Lorrin " Whitey " Harrison, Don Okey, Al Dowden, Tom Wilson, and Bob Simmons.

Pat and Richard Nixon were married at one of the two wedding chapels, Nancy and Ronald Reagan honeymooned there, and eight other US Presidents have visited the Inn: Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Gerald Ford, and George W. Bush.

When Harrison was 9, she and her mother were converted by a Jehovah's Witness missionary who visited the family.

It would turn out that one of these ' cinder cones ' was just an impact crater, when visited by Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt on 17 and that what in fact he was seeing were young craters with dark ejecta blankets.

In September 1811, William Henry Harrison, then governor of Indiana Territory, visited Kentucky and directed Colonel Samuel Wells to recruit Kentuckians for a new federal regiment then being formed by the authority of Secretary of War William Eustis.

Harrison when they visited this site, planted a flag on the crest and named the rock for 17 year belle, Mary Conway, an emigrant.

Just a few days after the recording was completed, Harrison became the first Beatle to travel to the US when he visited his sister in Benton, Illinois.

On the first night, she is visited by the ghostly apparition of the former owner, a roguish, but harmless sea captain named Daniel Gregg ( Rex Harrison ), who reluctantly promises to make himself known only to her ; Anna is too young for ghosts.

Poirot tells him that he traded the cyanide Harrison had in his pocket for the soda when he visited earlier on.

Having realized what he would have done, Harrison expresses his fervent gratitude for Poirot having visited and spoiled his plans.

Upon hearing the news that Lennon had been murdered on December 8, 1980, Shotton visited Harrison at Friar Park, Harrison's home.