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Woolson, Constance Fenimore

(Encyclopedia) Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840–94, American novelist, b. Claremont, N.H.; grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, and author of a number of well-written and popular works, including…

The Edge

Director: Lee TamahoriWriter: David MametDirector of Photography:Donald M. McAlpineEditor:Neil TravisMusic:Jerry GoldsmithProduction Designer:Wolf KroegerProducer:Art LinsonTwentieth Century…

edge cities

(Encyclopedia) edge cities, term designating commercial complexes that have grown up on the margins of large American cities, a development that dates mainly from the 1970s. The term was coined by…

River Edge

(Encyclopedia) River Edge, residential borough (1990 pop. 10,603), Bergen co., NE N.J., on the Hackensack River; inc. 1894.

woman suffrage

(Encyclopedia) woman suffrage, the right of women to vote. Throughout the latter part of the 19th cent. the issue of women's voting rights was an important phase of feminism. On the European…

Rodoreda, Mercè

(Encyclopedia) Rodoreda, Mercè, 1909–83, Spanish novelist writing in Catalan. Exiled for several decades in Paris and Geneva following the Spanish Civil War, Rodoreda focuses her novel Time of the…

Jack the Ripper

(Encyclopedia) Jack the Ripper, name given to an unidentified late-19th-century murderer in London, England; also known as the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron. From Aug. to Nov., 1888, he was…

Brewer's: Edge on

(See Egg on.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Edge of the SwordEdge-bone A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…

recorder

(Encyclopedia) recorder, musical wind instrument of the flute family, made of wood, varying in length, and having an inverted conical bore (largest end near the mouthpiece). Its tone is produced by…

Anthony, Susan Brownell

(Encyclopedia) Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820–1906, American reformer and leader of the woman-suffrage movement, b. Adams, Mass.; daughter of Daniel Anthony, Quaker abolitionist. From the age of 17,…