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Montgomery, L. M.

(Encyclopedia) Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud Montgomery), 1874–1942, Canadian novelist, b. Prince Edward Island. Her first novel, Anne of Green Gables (1908), met with immediate success and has been…

Mystery Initials

Full names of famous authors tracked down by Holly Hartman Maybe "John Ronald Reuel" didn't fit on the book cover?!Ever wonder what the two R's stand for in J. R. R. Tolkien? Curious about…

Maude Elizabeth KEE, Congress, WV (1895-1975)

KEE Maude Elizabeth , a Representative from West Virginia; born Maude Elizabeth Simpkins, in Radford, Montgomery County, Va., June 7, 1895; attended public and private schools of Montgomery County…

Walter, Lucy

(Encyclopedia) Walter, Lucy, 1630?–1658, mistress (1648–50) of Charles II of England during his exile in Holland and France. She was the mother by him of James Scott, duke of Monmouth, whom the Whigs…

Slye, Maud

(Encyclopedia) Slye, MaudSlye, Maudslī [key], 1879–1954, American pathologist, b. Minneapolis, grad. Brown, 1899. At the Univ. of Chicago she taught pathology, becoming professor emeritus in 1945,…

Maud

(Encyclopedia) Maud: see Matilda, queen of England.

Holt, Helen Maud

(Encyclopedia) Holt, Helen Maud: see Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm.