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Austen, Jane

(Encyclopedia) Austen, JaneAusten, Janeôˈstən [key], 1775–1817, English novelist. The daughter of a clergyman, she spent the first 25 years of her life at “Steventon,” her father's Hampshire vicarage…

Gothic romance

(Encyclopedia) Gothic romance, type of novel that flourished in the late 18th and early 19th cent. in England. Gothic romances were mysteries, often involving the supernatural and heavily tinged with…

Felicity Jones

Felicity Jones was Oscar-nominated in 2015 for playing scientist Stephen Hawking’s wife in the drama The Theory of Everything, but she may be better known as Jyn Erso, in the the film Rogue One: A…

Edward Abbey

Edward Abbey was a writer who became a cult figure and literary voice for environmental activists, especially in the southwestern part of the United States. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Abbey…

Brewer's: An Abbey Laird

An insolvent debtor sheltered by the precincts of Holyrood Abbey. “As diligence cannot be proceeded with on Sunday, the Abbey Lairds (as they were jocularly called) were enabled to come…

Brewer's: An Abbey-lubber

An idle, well-fed dependent or loafer. “It came into a common proverbe to call him an Abbay-lubber, that was idle, wel fed, a long, lewd, lither loiterer, that might worke and would not…

Brewer's: Melrose Abbey

(Register of) from 735 to 1270, published in Fulman (1684). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894MelusinaMelpomene A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…

Brewer's: Tintern Abbey

Wordsworth has a poem called Lines Composed a few Miles above Tintern Abbey, but these lines have nothing whatever to do with the famous ruin, not even once alluding to it. Source:…

abbey

(Encyclopedia) abbey, monastic house, especially among Benedictines and Cistercians, consisting of not less than 12 monks or nuns ruled by an abbot or abbess. Many abbeys were originally self-…

Brewer's: History of Croyland Abbey

by Ingulphus, and its continuation to 1118 by Peter of Blois, were proved to be literary impositions by Sir F. Palgrave in the Quarterly Review, vol. xxxiv., No. 67. Source: Dictionary…