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Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher of Edinburgh
No full textEliza Fletcher (born Eliza Dawson) (1770–1858) was an English writer, literary patron and supporter of parliamentary reform and liberal politics. Fletcher became a patron of the poets Ann Yearsley and Hannah More, and later in life formed friendships with prominent writers Elizabeth Gaskell and Harriet Martineau. After her marriage to politician and electoral reformer Archibald Fletcher in 1791, she became more radical in her political views. This volume, first published in 1874, contains Fletcher's autobiography, edited by her daughter, Lady Mary Richardson. Fletcher describes her life chronologically, providing fascinating detail on her childhood and adolescence, and citing correspondence illustrating her relationships with her friends. She provides sharp observations on political issues and describes the social and literary circles in which she moved, giving valuable information on literary society and politics during the early nineteenth century. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=fletel
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Book review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid
No full textBook review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid. London:
Bloomsbury, 2014; ISBN: 9781472574435 (£17.99)Publisher PD
Charlie May Simon Fletcher
No full textFletcher seated behind desk and in front of stained glass window."(On verso: LL.D. 1960 as Simon, Charley Mae [sic]. Mrs. John Gould Fletcher.)Charlie May Simon Fletcher (1897-1977) was an Arkansas author and former creative writing professor at the University of Arkansas. She was married to John Gould Fletcher, an Arkansas poet
Young Workers Cheer Evans, Fletcher.
No full textAt an Action for Washington rally, Fletcher received almost as many cheers for his primary victory as Evans
Art Fletcher Differs with Muncey on Post
No full textMuncey sees the position as PR, while Fletcher "would seek to carry out specific duties in the field of urban affairs." "The two will appear jointly on a television program on KING-TV, Seattle, Sept. 8." "Fletcher also said Friday" that he would be meeting with Nixon to discuss self-help programs "in New York early next month.
The effectiveness of the stylometry of function words in discriminating between Shakespeare and Fletcher
No full textA number of recent successful authorship studies have relied on a statistical
analysis of language features based on function words. However, stylometry has
not been extensively applied to Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic questions.
To determine the effectiveness of such an approach in this field, language features
are studied in twenty-four plays by Shakespeare and eight by Fletcher. The goal
is to develop procedures that might be used to determine the authorship of
individual scenes in The Two Noble Kinsmen and Henry VIII.
Homonyms, spelling variants and contracted forms in old-spelling dramatic
texts present problems for a computer analysis. A program that uses a system of
pre-edit codes and replacement /expansion lists was developed to prepare versions
of the texts in which all forms of common words can be recognized automatically.
To evaluate some procedures for determining authorship developed by A. Q.
Morton and his colleagues, occurrences of 30 common collocations and 5 proportional
pairs are analyzed in the texts. Within-author variation for these features
is greater than had been found in previous studies. Univariate chi-square tests
are shown to be of limited usefulness because of the statistical distribution of
these textual features and correlation between pairs of features. The best of the
collocations do not discriminate as well as most of the individual words from
which they are composed.
Turning to the rate of occurrence of individual words and groups of words, distinctiveness
ratios and t-tests are used to select variables that best discriminate
between Shakespeare and Fletcher. Variation due to date of composition and
genre within the Shakespeare texts is examined. A multivariate and distributionfree
discriminant analysis procedure (using kernel estimation) is introduced. The
classifiers based on the best marker words and the kernel method are not greatly
affected by characterization and perform well for samples as short as 500 words.
When the final procedure is used to assign the 459 scenes of known authorship
(containing at least 500 words)almost 112 95% are assigned to the correct author. Only
two scenes are incorrectly classified, and 4.8% of the scenes cannot be assigned
to either author by the procedure. When applied to individual scenes of at least 500 words in The Two Noble
Kinsmen and Henry VIII, the procedure indicates that both plays are collaborations
and generally supports the usual division. However, the marker words in
a number of scenes often attributed to Fletcher are very much closer to Shakespeare's
pattern of use. These scenes include TNK IV.iii and H8 I.iii, IV.i-ii
and V.iv
John Gould Fletcher collection
No full textThis collection contains several randomly collected items by or about the author
A Concise Introduction to John Fletcher : Guide
No full textDaisy Murray, Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, provides an introduction to John Fletcher (1579-1625), the Jacobean playwright best known for his collaborative work with writers such as Francis Beaumont and William Shakespeare. Murray…Daisy Murray, Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, provides an introduction to John Fletcher (1579-1625), the Jacobean playwright best known for his collaborative work with writers such as Francis Beaumont and William Shakespeare. Murray…Description based on online resource; title from title screen (Digital Theatre+, viewed January 25, 2022
Fletcher, William Warde (1879–1947)
No full textWilliam Fletcher was an evangelist, teacher, church administrator, and author. He challenged the Seventh-day Adventist doctrine of the sanctuary.https://research.avondale.edu.au/esda/1374/thumbnail.jp
Estimate made by Robert Fletcher
No full textThis note provides details on an estimate made by Robert Fletcher and an account of what the author had already paid to W.B. Greenlaw. The author and date of this note are unknown. An educated guess could be that the author is Roberton Topp
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