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Constance de Castelbajac (1859–1886), French aristocrat; Abelardo Castillo (1935–2017), Argentine novelist and essayist; Barbara Castle (1910–2002), English politician; Henri de Catt (1725–1795), Swiss scholar; Catherine Caughey (1923–2008), Kenyan-born New Zealand code breaker and occupational therapist
A British aristocrat, owner of the Kingsman tailor shop and founder of the agency. [21] The Grand Duke of Owls Rock-a-Doodle: A giant magical owl and the main villain of the film. [22] [23] In the original play Chantecler on which the film Rock-a-Doodle is loosely based, the character is simply called "the Grand Duke". [24] Alaric Pendlebury ...
Below is a list of literary magazines and journals: periodicals devoted to book reviews, creative nonfiction, essays, poems, short fiction, and similar literary endeavors. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Because the majority are from the United States , the country of origin is only listed for those outside the U.S.
Callaloo (literary magazine) Calyx (magazine) Canteen (magazine) Cardinal Points; Cavalier (magazine) The Chattahoochee Review; The Chaucer Review; Chicago Review; Children's Literature (journal) Children's Literature Association Quarterly; Chinese Literature Today; Chips (literary magazine) Chiron Review; The Cimarron Review; College English ...
Today the magazine is produced as an academic journal. The articles are typically much longer than they were during the journal's early years, though they are still shorter than those of the typical academic journal. In addition, the "Notes" now far outweigh the "Queries", and book reviews have also been introduced.
The book discusses the life history of aristocrat Ewan Forbes who was assigned female at birth and, from a young age of six, was observed by his family to act purposefully as a boy. Supported by his mother, he was allowed to access medical specialists from the age of 15 and was given an early version of synthetically produced testosterone as ...
A stock character, popular in 16th-century Spanish literature, who is comically and shockingly vulgar. Clarín, the clown in Life is a dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, is a gracioso. Examples of similar characters in Anglophone culture include: Bubbles in the television series Trailer Park Boys
The natural aristocracy is a concept developed by Thomas Jefferson in 1813 which describes a political elite that derives its power from talent and virtue (or merit). He distinguishes this from traditional aristocracies, which he refers to as the artificial aristocracy, a ruling elite that derives its power solely from inherited status, or wealth and birth.