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Holmes's major works of Romantic biography include: Shelley: The Pursuit which won him the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974; Coleridge: Early Visions, which won him the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize (now the Costa Book Awards); Coleridge: Darker Reflections, the second and final volume of his Coleridge biography which won the Duff Cooper Prize and the Heinemann Award; and Dr. Johnson and ...
Holmes confessed to the murder to his second wife. Milford Cole of Baltimore, disappeared after receiving a telegram from Holmes to come to Chicago in July 1894. [31] An additional possible victim was Lucy Burbank; her bankbook was found with human hair in a chimney flue at the "Castle" in 1895. [37]
Edward Richard Holmes, CBE, TD, VR, JP (29 March 1946 – 30 April 2011), [1] known as Richard Holmes, was a British military historian. He was co-director of Cranfield University 's Security and Resilience Group from 1989 to 2009 and became Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield in 1995.
Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer is an autobiographical book by the biographer Richard Holmes, published in 1985. Harper Perennial first published reprints of Footsteps in 2005. [ 1 ]
[7] [25] At the trial, the jury acquitted her of attempted murder charges, [2] [20] but she was convicted on 15 counts of deception, which she had admitted before the trial, and sentenced to three years and nine months imprisonment for the money she stole from Thompson and two other lovers. [26] [27] Richard Thompson later described Dena as ...
Serial killer Richard Ramirez first connected with his wife Doreen Lioy when she began writing letters to him in ... He murdered at least 14 people after breaking into their homes between April ...
Richard Holmes (Connecticut settler) (1633–1704), founding settler of Norwalk, Connecticut; Richard Rivington Holmes (1835–1911), British archivist and courtier; Richard Holmes (military historian) (1946–2011), British soldier and military historian; Richard E. Holmes (born 1944), first black student to enroll at Mississippi State University
Joseph Papp and his wife encouraged Holmes to write a musical after they attended one of his cabarets in 1983. The result, loosely based on Charles Dickens 's unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood , and inspired by Holmes's memories of English pantomime shows he attended as a child, was a hit in New York's Central Park and on Broadway .