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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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Fletcher, Charles T, VX106082
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/385513Surname: FLETCHER. Given Name(s) or Initials: CHARLES T. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX106082. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 46406.235319
Item: [2016.0049.17806] "Fletcher, Charles T, VX106082
Fletcher, A T, VX865
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/385521Surname: FLETCHER. Given Name(s) or Initials: A T. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX865. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 7602.235335
Item: [2016.0049.17814] "Fletcher, A T, VX865
Fletcher, T J, VX43033
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/385515Surname: FLETCHER. Given Name(s) or Initials: T J. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX43033. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 45605.235323
Item: [2016.0049.17808] "Fletcher, T J, VX43033
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
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
[Second Lieutenant Robert Fletcher, Union Army]
No full text''2d Lt. Robert Fletcher, Battery G, First U.S. Artillery, Brownsville, Texas. Lieutenant Fletcher was a West Point graduate who served at Fort Brown during Reconstruction. After completing his military service he pursued a career in education and eventually became director of the Thayer School of Civil Engineering at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Inscribed and signed verso. Carte de visite by J. S. Mayer, New York, New York, ca. 1868.'' [Jerry Thompson and Lawrence T. Jones III, Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier: A Narrative and Photographic History (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2004), 68.]Verso: [handwritten] Your affectionate nephew Robert Fletcher 2d Lt. 1st U.S. Art'y, Battery ''G'' Brownsville Texas. [stamped imprint] J. S. Mayer, Photographer, 348 West 44th Street, Bet. 8th-9th Av. New York
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