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Bible Encyclopedias

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Search Results: "charlotte-corday

Approximate Matches: 18
Brontë
The name of three ladies, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, daughters of a Yorkshire clergyman of Irish extraction: orn at Thornton, Yorkshire; removed with
Caen
a fine old norman town, capital of calvados, about 80 m. se. of cherbourg; lace the chief manufacture; the burial-place of william the conqueror, and the native place of charlotte corday; it is a well-built town, and has fine old public buildings, a large library, and a noble collection of pictures.
Caroline of Brunswick
Queen of George IV. and daughter of the Duke of Brunswick; married George, then Prince of Wales, in 1795; gave birth to the Princess Charlotte the year
Charlottenburg
a town on the spree, 3 m. w. of berlin, with a palace, the favourite residence of sophie charlotte, the grandmother of frederick the great, and so named by her husband frederick i. after her death; contains the burial-place of william i., emperor of germany.
Claremont
a mansion in surrey, 14 m. sw. of london, built by lord clive, where princess charlotte lived and died, as also louis philippe after his flight from france; is now the property of the queen, and the residence of the duchess of albany.
Columbia, British
The most westerly province in Canada, lies between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific, the United States and Alaska, and is four times the size of Great
Deluc, Jean André
geologist, born in geneva; lived in england; was reader to queen charlotte, and author of several works (1727-1817).
Eyre, Jane
the heroine of a novel of charlotte brontë's so called, a governess who, in her struggles with adverse fortune, wins the admiration and melts the heart of a man who had lived wholly for the world.
Fielding, Henry
A famous novelist, who has been styled by Scott "the father of the English novel," born at Sharpham Park, Glastonbury, son of General Edmund Fielding
George III.
King of Great Britain from 1760 to 1820, and king of Hanover (Elector from 1760 to 1815), eldest son of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, and grandson
Jane Eyre
a novel by charlotte brontë; published in 1847.
Leibnitz
German philosopher, mathematician, and man of affairs, born in Leipzig; studied law and took the degree of Doctor of Laws at Altorf; spent a good part
Leopold I.
King of the Belgians, son of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg; in his youth served in the Russian army; visited England in 1815, and married Princess Charlotte,
Lux, Adam
a young parisian; smitten with love for charlotte corday, proposed a statue to her with the inscription "greater than brutus," which brought him to the guillotine.
Marat, Jean Paul
A fanatical democrat, born in Neuchâtel, his father an Italian, his mother a Genevese; studied and practised medicine, came to Paris as horse-leech
Néestevenson">gaskell, Mrs., Née Stevenson
novelist and biographer, born at cheyne row, chelsea; authoress of "mary barton," "ruth," "silvia's lovers," &c., and the "life of charlotte brontë," her friend (1810-1865).
Roland, Madame
A brave, pure-souled, queen-like woman with "a strong Minerva face," the noblest of all living Frenchwomen, took enthusiastically to the French Revolution,
Santa Cruz
he largest of the queen charlotte or santa cruz islands, in the south pacific, 100 m. n. of the new hebrides; on one of the smaller islands bishop patteson was brutally murdered by the natives in 1871.
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