Locksley Hall" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson in 1835 and published in his 1842 collection of Poems. It narrates the emotions of a rejected suitor upon coming to his childhood home, an apparently fictional Locksley Hall, though in fact Tennyson was a guest of the Arundel family in their stately home named Loxley Hall, in Staffordshire, where he spent much of his time writing whilst on his visits. According to Tennyson, the poem represents "young life, its good side, its deficiencies, and its yearnings".[1] Tennyson's son Hallam recalled that his father said the poem was inspired by Sir William Jones's prose translation of the Arabic Mu'allaqat."Locksley Hall" is a dramatic monologue written as a set of 97 rhyming couplets. Each line follows a modified version of trochaic octameter in which the last unstressed syllable has been eliminated; moreover, there is generally a caesura, whether explicit or implicit, after the first four trochees in the line. Each couplet is separated as its own stanza. The University of Toronto library identifies this form as "the old 'fifteener' line," quoting Tennyson, who claimed it was written in trochaics because the father of his friend Arthur Hallam suggested that the English liked the meter.[2] The meter is reminiscent of that of the Nibelungenlied.
Dandy was a paddle-wheel steamer, built in England in 1823. The ship was bought in 1825 by a Danish businessman and employed on the route between Copenhagen and Aarhus with the new name Jylland. The small steamer was not well suited for the job and in 1826 it was sent to Altona in Hamburg, where it got the name Dandy back and sailed between towns on the Elbe river. It was still present in the ship list from Altona in 1843, but by 1845 it was gone.The overseas buyer was the Danish merchant Louis Oppert of Copenhagen. Dandy arrived in that city on 14 September 1825 and she was entered in the Danish shipping registry as the Jylland (alternatively spelled as Jydland and Jülland). The name was an indicator of the route she was bought to operate, between Copenhagen on Zealand and Aarhus in Jylland. The first departure from Copenhagen was on 30 September 1825. Jylland was not the first steamship project by Oppert. In February 1824 he had bought the schooner Zerlina in Karlskrona in Sweden. His plan was to convert it into a steamship
Grace Carpenter Hudson painted "National Thorn" in 1891; it was selected to be shown at the Minneapolis Art Association exhibit where it proved very popular. Her painting "Little Mendocino" (another Pomo infant portrait) was exhibited in the California State Building at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.[5] The painting received much attention and it earned an honorable mention. In 1894, "Little Mendocino" was hung at the Midwinter Fair in San Francisco, yielding further commissions for works in a similar vein.[6] By 1895, Grace's growing success as a popular artist was bringing in more than enough money for the couple to live in modest comfort. John Hudson gave up his medical practice in order to study the Pomo people and follow his deep interests in archeology and ethnography. His collection of California Indian baskets and other Native American artifacts can be found in the Smithsonian Institution, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum and the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah, whose research collection is based on his manuscripts and correspondence. An 1895 San Francisco Call piece on Grace was reprinted in the November 5th, 1895 issue of The New York Times, entitled "Very Hard to Get Papooses to Pose." In it, she details her method of photographing or painting Pomo infants without their mother's knowledge, and likely against their will, by means of deceit. Grace reports that due to the indigenous belief that being sketched or photographed would result in a negative outcome, she must use elaborate ruses to access the infants in private.
Len Deighton (born 18 February 1929) is an English author known for his novels, works of military history, screenplays and cookery writing. He had a varied career, including as a pastry cook, waiter, co-editor of a magazine, teacher and air steward before writing his first novel in 1962: The IPCRESS File.[1][2] He continued to produce what his biographer John Reilly considers "stylish, witty, well-crafted novels" in spy fiction,[3] including three trilogies and a prequel featuring Bernard Samson. Deighton authored two television scripts, the first of which was Long Past Glory in 1963; he also wrote a film script, Oh! What a Lovely War (1969). His long-held interest in cooking—his mother had been a professional chef and instilled a love for cuisine in her son—led to an illustrated cookery column in the Sunday newspaper, The Observer, for two years. The work was collected into two later books, Len Deighton's Action Cook Book and Où est le garlic (both 1965); he subsequently wrote several other cookery books.[5] Deighton has produced several other works of non-fiction, including a study of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a history of the airship, Second World War military history and a short e-book about James Bond.