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  • 21Brummagem — Brummagem, (and historically also Bromichan, Bremicham and many similar variants, all essentially Bromwich·ham), is the local name for the city of Birmingham, England, and the dialect associated with it, (see, for example, Carl Chinn and Steve… …

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  • 22The Punch and Judy Man — is a British comedy film from 1963 directed by Jeremy Summers. It was Tony Hancock s second film in a starring role, following The Rebel (1961). PlotBased on Hancock s childhood memories of Bournemouth, the film is set in the early 1950s in the… …

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  • 23Men's Wives — (1852) is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray External links Men s Wives at Project Gutenberg …

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  • 24La Foire aux vanités — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Vanity Fair et La Foire aux vanités (homonymie). La Foire aux vanités …

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  • 25William Thackeray — William Makepeace Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray …

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  • 26Теккерей — Уилльям Мэйкпис (William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811 1863) знаменитый английский писатель реалист. Р. в Калькутте. После смерти отца, колониального чиновника, был отвезен шестилетним ребенком в Англию. Учился в Кэмбриджском ун те. Но уже через год… …

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  • 27Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn — ▪ English writer née  Stevenson  born Sept. 29, 1810, Chelsea, London, Eng. died Nov. 12, 1865, near Alton, Hampshire  English novelist, short story writer, and first biographer of Charlotte Brontë.       She was a daughter of a Unitarian… …

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  • 28Wilson, Sir Angus — ▪ British author born , Aug. 11, 1913, Bexhill, East Sussex, Eng. died May 31, 1991, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, Eng.       British writer whose fiction sometimes serious, sometimes richly satirical portrays conflicts in contemporary English… …

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  • 29Esquisses de Boz — Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every day Life and Every day People Page de titre de la seconde série, illustrée par George Cruikshank : dans la nacelle, il s est représenté avec Dickens …

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  • 30baseborn — Synonyms and related words: base, bastard, below the salt, cockney, common, commonplace, FALSE, fatherless, homely, humble, illegitimate, low, lowborn, lowbred, lowly, mean, misbegotten, miscreated, natural, nonclerical, ordinary, plain, plebeian …

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