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Same old problems haunt Bristol Ladies

Bristol Evening Post - Jan 20, 2012
BRISTOL Ladies crashed to their eighth defeat of the season following a familiar second-half collapse against Premiership leaders Richmond at Landseer Avenue. Bristol gave as good as they got during a highly entertaining and competitive first half, ...

Planet of the Monkey-Men, 1827

Booktryst (blog)

Booktryst (blog) - Jan 18, 2012
It's a suite of twenty-four mordantly satiric caricatures by Thomas Landseer (1795-1880), brother of Edwin Landseer (1802-1873), the famed painter of horses, dogs, and stags, and captioned with quotations from Shakespeare, Pope, etc.

Where have all the book illustrators gone?

The Independent - Jan 20, 2012
And along with Dickens come his illustrators: Cruikshank and Phiz, obviously, but a plethora of others including Richard Doyle, Edwin Landseer and John Tenniel. It's impossible to detach the novels from the illustrations, not least because the author ...

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Sir Edwin Lutyens: Designing in the English Tradition

by: Elizabeth Wilhide
This long-awaited book is the first to focus solely on the brilliant but often neglected interiors and furniture of the great British architect Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869-1944).

Lutyens's lifelong creative partnership with landscape designer Gertrude Jekyll spurred the revival of the English country garden, and his designs-rooted in the English Arts and Crafts movement but inspired by Classicism-remain popular today for their clean lines, angles, and contrasts. Published with the cooperation of the Lutyens family, and illustrated with specially commissioned and archival photographs of intact or restored interiors and gardens, original furniture designs, and contemporary reinterpretations of the Lutyens style, the book provides fresh insight into a design genius whose masterful synthesis of function and artistry has enduring relevance and appeal.
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The Cricket on the Hearth

by: Charles Dickens
The Cricket on the Hearth is Charles Dickens third of five Christmas books. Dickens described the novel as quiet and domestic, innocent and pretty. It is a story about relationships and how they are affected by such emotions as love and egotism. The story centers on John Peerybingle and his family who are visited by a guardian angel in the form of a cricket who is constantly chirping on their hearth. A cricket, believed to be a symbol of good luck, works as a cementing factor between the couple..
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