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    pronounced [dvɐˈrʲanskʲɪɪ ɡnʲɪˈzdo]), also translated as A Nest of the Gentlefolk, A Nest of the Gentry and Liza , is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published...
    6 KB (711 words) - 04:57, 12 August 2024
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    little dogmatist,    Thou pretty Katydid! Thou mindest me of gentlefolks, -    Old gentlefolks are they, - Thou say'st an undisputed thing    In such a solemn...
    24 KB (2,807 words) - 07:27, 27 August 2024
  • Finn Care, established by Elizabeth Anne Finn in 1897 as the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association, is a British charity providing help and assistance to...
    10 KB (889 words) - 15:52, 22 July 2024
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    'gentleman', or 'well-mannered person') is Bengali for the new class of 'gentlefolk' who arose during British rule in India in the Bengal region in the eastern...
    8 KB (874 words) - 07:35, 11 March 2024
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    priesthood, and song schools (choir schools) that trained the 'sons of gentlefolk' to sing in cathedral choirs. In the case of Canterbury (597) and Rochester...
    33 KB (5,311 words) - 18:45, 3 September 2024
  • Alan Moore gave the title of the work as "The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk". Moore changed the name to Gentlemen to better reflect the Victorian...
    23 KB (2,360 words) - 19:18, 25 July 2024
  • The Inquisition. Carlos Javier creates a "school for the children of gentlefolk" to serve as a safe haven and training ground for which he calls mutantur...
    143 KB (15,816 words) - 07:35, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gaudeamus igitur
    of benefactors Which protects us here! Long live our Republic and The gentlefolk who lead us; May the ones who hold the purse Be always ready to disburse...
    16 KB (1,377 words) - 13:10, 31 August 2024
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    deteriorated in his eighties, and he was admitted in 1982 to the Distressed Gentlefolks Aid Association's Nursing Home in Vicarage Gate, Kensington. He went...
    27 KB (2,950 words) - 20:51, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Evelyn Waugh bibliography
    Georgian Short Stories, Chapman and Hall, London, 1926 1927 "A House of Gentlefolks" In Hugh Chesterman (ed.): The New Decameron, Basil Blackwell, Oxford...
    16 KB (492 words) - 19:44, 17 December 2023
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    sexes, of every age and occupation, and of every rank and station, from gentlefolks down to the very poor, were divided into two groups without their choice...
    35 KB (4,337 words) - 20:31, 28 July 2024
  • also deals with the theme of urban melancholy, of the bhadralok, the gentlefolk, through Anand Babu, a businessman trapped in a bad marriage, whose wife...
    32 KB (3,643 words) - 12:13, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mother (novel)
    the way they are being exploited: by the priests, the authorities, the 'gentlefolk'. 'People won't believe the naked word — suffering's needed, the word...
    11 KB (1,170 words) - 21:03, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
    too in birth by revising the story to reveal her parents as reduced gentlefolks. In the end, Richardson revised and released fourteen editions of Pamela...
    44 KB (5,903 words) - 15:45, 24 August 2024
  • between 1846 and 1863. She and her daughter co-founded the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association, the predecessor of Elizabeth Finn Care. Elizabeth McCaul...
    15 KB (1,836 words) - 07:31, 1 February 2024
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    remained a private hunting ground until James I permitted limited access to gentlefolk, appointing a ranger to take charge. In October 1619, keepers directed...
    58 KB (6,063 words) - 22:14, 7 June 2024
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    Gentry (Дворянское гнездо), also translated as A Nest of Gentlefolk, A House of Gentlefolk and Liza 1860: On the Eve (Накануне) 1862: Fathers and Sons...
    34 KB (3,912 words) - 16:30, 8 August 2024
  • children at the fictitious Chiselbury public school "for the sons of Gentlefolk". From 1956 to 1960 and 1971–1972, it ran for 60 episodes over 8 series...
    167 KB (18,857 words) - 22:25, 24 August 2024
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    - January 13, 2014 Little Queen of Spades - April 15, 2014 Good Day, Gentlefolk – Filthy Bonnet Co., April 2, 2015 Assiduity – Offered as MP3s on Melora's...
    23 KB (2,337 words) - 21:50, 27 June 2024
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    adjoining houses to attract wealthy men at court, city officials and country gentlefolk wanting London homes, convenient for Clerkenwell and the Inns of Court...
    25 KB (3,279 words) - 14:30, 18 July 2024
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