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  2. Rape of the Sabine women - Wikipedia

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    The rape of the Sabine women (Latin: Sabinae raptae, Classical pronunciation: [saˈbiːnae̯ ˈraptae̯]; lit. ' the kidnapped Sabine women '), also known as the abduction of the Sabine women or the kidnapping of the Sabine women, was an incident in the legendary history of Rome in which the men of Rome committed bride kidnappings or mass abduction for the purpose of marriage, of women from ...

  3. Abduction of a Sabine Woman - Wikipedia

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    The Abduction of a Sabine Woman was made from a single block of white marble, which became the largest block ever transported to Florence. Giambologna wanted to create a composition with the figura serpentina (S-curve) and an upward snakelike spiral movement. It was conceived without a dominant viewpoint; that is, the work gives a different ...

  4. The Rape of the Sabine Women (Luca Giordano) - Wikipedia

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    The Rape of the Sabine Women (German: Der Raub der Sabinerinnen), 7 ft 2 in x 8 ft. The Sabine women seized and borne away by the Romans. In the background, near a Corinthian temple, Romulus, mounted upon a horse, is directing the movement. Painted for Marie Louise d'Orléans, Queen of Spain; taken from Naples to Dresden.

  5. Eliza Davis (letter writer) - Wikipedia

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    Eliza Davis (1817–1903) was a Jewish English woman who is remembered for her correspondence with the novelist Charles Dickens about his depiction of Jewish characters in his novels. Davis was born in Jamaica. In 1835 she married her cousin [1] James Phineas Davis (1812–1886), a banker, who, in 1860, bought Tavistock House in London from ...

  6. Wrens of the Curragh - Wikipedia

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    The women developed a lifestyle in which money, homes, belongings, food, and childcare were shared. The community of women was originally covered by Charles Dickens in his journal, later being covered in novels, a poem, music, a podcast, and art.

  7. Urania Cottage - Wikipedia

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    Urania Cottage was a Magdalene asylum, in the terminology of the time, hostel or women's shelter, founded in London in 1847 by the novelist Charles Dickens and the philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts. [1] The house was a reformatory, and has been called a "discreet version" of London's Magdalen House for Reception of Penitent Prostitutes. [2]

  8. List of Penguin Classics - Wikipedia

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    The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens; The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde; Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens; Pierre: or, The Ambiguities by Herman Melville; Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant; Piers the Ploughman by William Langland; The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan; The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon; Pinocchio: The Tale of ...

  9. The Rape of the Sabine Women (Poussin) - Wikipedia

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    The legendary rape of the Sabine women is the subject of two oil paintings by Nicolas Poussin. [a] The first version was painted in Rome about 1634 or 1635 and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, catalogued as The Abduction of the Sabine Women. [1]