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Katharine Brush: portrait by Leon Gordon, 1933. Katharine Brush (August 15, 1902 β June 10, 1952) was an American newspaper columnist, short-story writer, and novelist. In the era of the 1920s-1930s, she was considered one of the country's most widely-read fiction writers, [1] as well as one of the highest paid women writers of her time; [2] several of her books were best-sellers, and ...
The Garden Party" is a 1922 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published (as "The Garden-Party") in three parts in the Saturday Westminster Gazette on 4 and 11 February 1922, and the Weekly Westminster Gazette on 18 February 1922. [1] It later appeared in The Garden Party and Other Stories. [2]
Miss Brill is an English teacher living near the Public Gardens in a French town. The narrative follows her on a regular Sunday afternoon, which she spends walking about and sitting in the park. The story opens with Miss Brill delighting in her decision to wear her fur. She notices that there are more park-goers than there were last Sunday, and ...
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter is a volume of her previously published collections of fiction and four uncollected works of short fiction. [ 1 ] Published in 1965 by Harcourt, Brace & World , the volume includes 26 works of fictionβall the stories that Porter "ever finished and published" in her lifetime. [ 2 ]
The Birthday Party. (play) Cover of first edition. (Encore Publishing, 1959) The Birthday Party (1957) is the first full-length play by Harold Pinter, first published in London by Encore Publishing in 1959. [ 1] It is one of his best-known and most frequently performed plays. [ 2]
Candida ( Shavian: ππ©π―ππ¦ππ³), a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was written in 1894 and first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant. The central characters are clergyman James Morell, his wife Candida and a youthful poet, Eugene Marchbanks, who tries to win Candida's affections. The play questions ...
Katharine Hepburn (May 12, 1907 β June 29, 2003) was an American actress of the 20th century, active in 44 feature films, 8 telemovies, and 33 stage plays over 66 years from 1928 and 1994. Katharine Hepburn in 1938. Hepburn began her career in theatre in 1928, and later appeared on the stage in every decade up until the 1980s.
Cover of an 1880s edition. Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight is a narrative poem by Rose Hartwick Thorpe, written in 1867 and set in the 17th century. It was written when she was 16 years old and first published in Detroit Commercial Advertiser. [ 1] The poem consists of ten stanzas of six lines each, written in catalectic trochaic octameter; the ...