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Gesta Romanorum

(Encyclopedia) Gesta RomanorumGesta Romanorumjĕsˈtə rōˌmənôrˈəm [key], medieval collection of Latin stories. Although the title means “Deeds of the Romans,” the tales have very little to do with…

James, M. R.

(Encyclopedia) James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes James), 1862–1936, English scholar, educator, and writer. He attended Eton and King's College, Cambridge, became (1887) a fellow at King's, and held…

Spark, Dame Muriel

(Encyclopedia) Spark, Dame Muriel, 1918–2006, Scottish novelist, b. Muriel Sarah Camberg. She lived in Edinburgh, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), London, New York, and Rome, and spent her last years in…

West, Jessamyn

(Encyclopedia) West, Jessamyn, 1907–84, American novelist, b. Indiana. A Quaker herself, her most famous novel is The Friendly Persuasion (1945), about the conflicts felt by a Quaker farm family…

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Franz Xaver GabelsbergerJames GadsdenLyman Judson GageJames GalanosJohn Kenneth GalbraithFerdinando GalianiAlbert GallatinGeorge Horace GallupIsabella Stewart GardnerThomas Andrew GareyRobert…

Girondists

(Encyclopedia) GirondistsGirondistsjĭrŏnˈdĭsts [key] or GirondinsGirondistszhērôNdăNˈ [key], political group of moderate republicans in the French Revolution, so called because the central members…

Pritchett, V. S.

(Encyclopedia) Pritchett, V. S. (Victor Sawdon Pritchett)Pritchett, V. S.prĭchˈĭt [key], 1900–1997, British writer, b. Ipswich. Largely self-educated, he was a distinguished and prolific man of…

Davis, Lydia

(Encyclopedia) Davis, Lydia, 1947–, American writer known for innovative, very short stories, b. Northampton, Mass., studied Barnard College. Davis earned early praise for her translations from the…

Stafford, Jean

(Encyclopedia) Stafford, Jean, 1915–79, American writer, b. Covina, Calif., grad. Univ. of Colorado, 1936. Her literary reputation rests primarily on her exquisitely wrought short stories. Both these…