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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.
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While at Cambridge, Mirrlees developed a close relationship with famous classicist Jane Ellen Harrison, Mirrlees ' tutor and later her friend and collaborator.
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when the first volume of her " extravagant biography " of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton was published ( the second volume is unpublished ).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 was a friend of Virginia Woolf, who described her in a letter as " her own heroine – capricious, exacting, exquisite, very learned, and beautifully dressed.
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 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.
Hope-in-the-Mist, a book-length study of Mirrlees and her work by Michael Swanwick, was published by Temporary Culture in 2009.
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Clute writes that " a more cautious claim " would be: " if Susanna Clarke finishes the story she has hardly begun in Strange ... she may well have then written the finest English novel of the fantastic about the myth of England and the myth of the fantastic and the marriage of the two ever published, bar none of the above, including Mirrlees.
* The surname of the main family in Hope Mirrlees ' 1926 novel Lud-in-the-Mist.
Bullet's novel to other works of post-WWI British fantasy, such as Stella Benson's Living Alone ( 1919 ), and Hope Mirrlees ' Lud-in-the-Mist ( 1926 ).
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One contemporary, Quentin Skinner has suggested that Mirrlees was a member of the Cambridge Apostles along with fellow Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen during this period.
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Joanna Russ wrote a short story, The Zanzibar Cat ( 1971 ), in homage to Hope Mirrlees and as a critique of Lud-in-the-Mist – and indeed the entire genre of fantasy, describing Fairyland " half in affectionate parody, but the other half very seriously indeed ".
*" Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees " ( 2011 ), Edited by Sandeep Parmar
Born in Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Mirrlees was educated at the University of Edinburgh ( MA in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in 1957 ) and Trinity College, Cambridge ( Mathematical Tripos and PhD ), where he was a very active student debater.
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The engine is an 8 cylinder, 145 litre Mirrlees Blackstone 8MB275T diesel traction engine ( 275 mm cylinder diameter ); the Mirrlees engine was one of the most fuel efficient available at the time ( 189g of fuel per kWhr ), but relatively heavy ; low cylinder count for rated power was expected to result in lower maintenance costs.
* " Optimal Taxation and Public Production I: Production Efficiency " and " Optimal Taxation and Public Production II: Tax Rules " ( 1971 ), by Peter A. Diamond and James Mirrlees.
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Tanner Mirrlees, “ Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles: An Interview with Robert McChesney ,” The Bullet, 9 August.
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The Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees will be published by Fyfield Books ( Carcanet Press ) in 2011 ( edited by Sandeep Parmar ).
A mathematical description was given by James Mirrlees.
Mirrlees Blackstone Limited was formed on June 1, 1969 by the merger of Mirrlees National Limited ( formerly Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day ) and Blackstone & Company Limited.
He also led the The Mirrlees Review, a review of the UK tax system by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
* " Tax by Design: the Mirrlees Review ", J. Mirrlees, S. Adam, T. Besley, R. Blundell, S. Bond, R. Chote, M. Gammie, P. Johnson, G. Myles and J. Poterba, ISBN 978-0-19-955374-7, Oxford University Press: September 2011.
* James Mirrlees interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 21st July 2009 ( film )
* Brush Traction-offered a locomotive powered by either a Mirrlees or Ruston engine, and used separately-excited ( Sepex ) traction control, as previously tested on the Class 58.
This was replaced in the 1880s by the steam beam engine, itself replaced in 1924 by the powerful Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day Diesel.
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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.
Mirrlees and Harrison lived together from 1913 until the elder's death in 1928.
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.
Mirrlees and Harrison visited Spain in 1920, and there took Spanish lessons.
After Harrison's death, Mirrlees converted to Catholicism.
" 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.
Sandeep Parmar is currently writing a biography of Mirrlees as well.
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That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.
She set down her suitcase.
Her face was pale but set and her dark eyes smoldered with blame for Ben.
The boy lifted the girl by the waist and set her on the lip of the floor.
The wife, Amra, and her lover are both savagely portrayed, she as incarnate sensuality, `` voluptuous '' and `` indolent '', possibly `` a mischief maker '', with `` a kind of luxurious cunning '' to set against her apparent simplicity, her `` birdlike brain ''.
The bodice beneath was buttoned and, withdrawing his lips from hers, he set her upright on his knee and started to undo it, unhurriedly as if she were a child.
Offer her a cup of tea and she would say, `` Why, these cups look just like a set I gave to the Salvation Army last year ''.
At 7:25 two hotel doormen came thumping down the steps, carrying a saw-horse to be set up as a barricade in front of the haberdashery store window next to the entranceway, and as I watched them in their gaudy red coats that nearly scraped the ground, their golden, fringed epaulets and spic, red-visored caps, I suddenly saw just over their shoulders Jessica gracefully making her way through the crowd.
She seemed so anxious to go on the stage that some of her friends in the cocktail circuit set up a practical joke.
Even among the fast set in which she was moving, her method for keeping an escort from departing too early was unique.
Pulley had set her up at the Semiramis Hotel, but she grew impatient waiting for a royal reception and moved to a luxurious apartment to which the royal pimp had no key.
Ulyate drew back with a start, and put finger to lips, almost afraid to move or whisper lest it set her off, `` The dogs have got her bayed.
She was wearing a brown cotton dress, cut across the hips in a way that was supposed to make her look slimmer, a yoke set into the skirt and flaring pleats below.
After the usual Honorable Sirs, it went on to say that there had been set off to the widow one full third part of the real estate of the deceased Salu Norberg, one lower room, on the Western side, privileges to the well and bake-oven and to one third of the cellar ( I can show you the cellar when we go up ), also one Cow Right, and lastly they set off to the widow her own land that she brought with her as dower, namely the Beech Pasture.
You'd have to wait till Seaton's back from Mexico City and also while I set it up with Doris to have her have an alibi for D-night.
A frequent pitfall in this sort of arrangement, experts warn, is a tendency to pay the wife more than her job is worth and to set aside an excessive amount for her as retirement income.
Hope wouldn't hear of it, and she took the heater back to Grandma's room, and Grandma took it back to Hope's room, and the two of them dragged it back and forth until Grandma tipped it over and almost set her bedspread on fire.
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