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Foster, Hannah Webster

(Encyclopedia) Foster, Hannah Webster, 1759–1840, American novelist, b. Boston. She was one of the earliest American novelists and her epistolary novel, The Coquette (1797), was one of the first of…

Pickford, Mary

(Encyclopedia) Pickford, Mary, 1893–1979, American movie actress, b. Toronto, Ont. In 1909 she began working with D. W. Griffith. Specializing in playing young girls, she was dubbed “America's…

1928–1929 Academy Awards

There were two Oscar ceremonies held at Los Angeles's Ambassador Hotel in 1930. This one, held on April 3, honored films released in 1928–1928. The other, held on Nov. 3 honored films…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Fragment: To the Moon

by Percy Bysshe Shelley The IsleEpitaphFragment: To the Moon Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862. Bright wanderer, fair coquette of Heaven, To whom alone it has been…

Mary Pickford Biography

Mary Pickford (Gladys Mary Smith) actress Born: 4/8/1893 Birthplace: Toronto, Canada Academy Award -winning actress and…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Letter

by EmilyDickinsonThe ContractVIThe Letter The Letter "GOING to him! Happy letter! Tell him — Tell him the page I didn't write; Tell him I only said the syntax, And left the verb and the…

Mary Pickford

Name at birth: Gladys Louise SmithSilent film star Mary Pickford was once the biggest movie star in the world, a diminutive blond known at the time as “America’s Sweetheart.” Pickford was also a…

Brewer's: Flirt

A coquette. The word is from the verb flirt, as, “to flirt a fan.” The fan being used for coquetting, those who coquetted were called fan-flirts. Lady Frances Shirley, the favourite of…

Brewer's: Columbine

(3 syl.). The sweetheart of Harlequin, and, like him, supposed to be invisible to mortal eyes. Columbina in Italian is a pet-name for a lady-love, and means a little dove, a young coquette…