Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

Gerald Duckworth

Index Gerald Duckworth

Gerald de l'Etang Duckworth (29 October 1870 – 28 September 1937) was an English publisher, who founded the London company that bears his name. [1]

41 relations: Adrian Stephen, Ancestor, Anthony Duckworth-Chad, Anthony Powell, August Strindberg, Austen Chamberlain, Barrister, Charles Montagu Doughty, Clare College, Cambridge, D. H. Lawrence, Dictionary of National Biography, Duckworth Overlook, Edith Sitwell, Edward Garnett, Eton College, Evelyn Waugh, George Herbert Duckworth, Henry James, Hogarth Press, In the Cage, Italy, John Galsworthy, Julia Margaret Cameron, Julia Stephen, L. Frank Baum, Leslie Stephen, London, Marie Antoinette, Maxfield Parrish, Milan, National Portrait Gallery, London, Osbert Sitwell, Oxford University Press, Peter Mayer, Publishing, Sacheverell Sitwell, Sexual abuse, Thoby Stephen, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, William Henry Hudson.

Adrian Stephen

Adrian Stephen (27 October 1883 – 3 May 1948) was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, an author and psychoanalyst, and the younger brother of Thoby Stephen, Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Adrian Stephen · See more »

Ancestor

An ancestor is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent, and so forth).

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Ancestor · See more »

Anthony Duckworth-Chad

Anthony Nicholas George Duckworth-Chad (born 1942), of Pynkney Hall, near King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, is a landowner, City of London business man, and a senior county officer for Norfolk.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Anthony Duckworth-Chad · See more »

Anthony Powell

Anthony Dymoke Powell (21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Anthony Powell · See more »

August Strindberg

Johan August Strindberg (22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and August Strindberg · See more »

Austen Chamberlain

Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG (16 October 1863 – 16 March 1937) was a British statesman, son of Joseph Chamberlain and half-brother of Neville Chamberlain.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Austen Chamberlain · See more »

Barrister

A barrister (also known as barrister-at-law or bar-at-law) is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Barrister · See more »

Charles Montagu Doughty

Charles Montagu Doughty (19 August 1843 – 20 January 1926) was an English poet, writer, explorer, adventurer and traveller born in Theberton Hall near Saxmundham, Suffolk and educated at private schools in Laleham and Elstree, and at a school for the Royal Navy, Portsmouth.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Charles Montagu Doughty · See more »

Clare College, Cambridge

Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Clare College, Cambridge · See more »

D. H. Lawrence

Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lev Shestov, Walt Whitman | influenced.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and D. H. Lawrence · See more »

Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Dictionary of National Biography · See more »

Duckworth Overlook

Duckworth Overlook, originally Gerald Duckworth and Company, founded in 1898 by Gerald Duckworth, is an independent British publisher.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Duckworth Overlook · See more »

Edith Sitwell

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Edith Sitwell · See more »

Edward Garnett

Edward William Garnett (1868–1937) was an English writer, critic and literary editor, who was instrumental in getting D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers published.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Edward Garnett · See more »

Eton College

Eton College is an English independent boarding school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, near Windsor.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Eton College · See more »

Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Evelyn Waugh · See more »

George Herbert Duckworth

Sir George Herbert Duckworth, CB, FSA (5 March 1868 – 27 April 1934) was an English public servant.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and George Herbert Duckworth · See more »

Henry James

Henry James, OM (–) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Henry James · See more »

Hogarth Press

The Hogarth Press was a British publishing house founded in 1917 by Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Hogarth Press · See more »

In the Cage

In the Cage is a novella by Henry James, first published as a book in 1898.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and In the Cage · See more »

Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Italy · See more »

John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and John Galsworthy · See more »

Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron (née Pattle; 11 June 1815 Calcutta – 26 January 1879 Kalutara, Ceylon) was a British photographer.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Julia Margaret Cameron · See more »

Julia Stephen

Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson; 7 February 1846 – 5 May 1895) was a celebrated English woman, noted for her beauty as a Pre-Raphaelite model and philanthropist.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Julia Stephen · See more »

L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919), better known as L. Frank Baum, was an American author chiefly famous for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and L. Frank Baum · See more »

Leslie Stephen

Sir Leslie Stephen (28 November 1832 – 22 February 1904) was an English author, critic, historian, biographer, and mountaineer, and father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Leslie Stephen · See more »

London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and London · See more »

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette (born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Marie Antoinette · See more »

Maxfield Parrish

Maxfield Parrish (July 25, 1870 – March 30, 1966) was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Maxfield Parrish · See more »

Milan

Milan (Milano; Milan) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,380,873 while its province-level municipality has a population of 3,235,000.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Milan · See more »

National Portrait Gallery, London

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and National Portrait Gallery, London · See more »

Osbert Sitwell

Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet (6 December 1892 – 4 May 1969) was an English writer.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Osbert Sitwell · See more »

Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Oxford University Press · See more »

Peter Mayer

Peter Michael Mayer (March 28, 1936 – May 11, 2018) was a British-born American independent publisher who was president of The Overlook Press/Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., a Woodstock, New York-based publishing company he founded with his father in 1971.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Peter Mayer · See more »

Publishing

Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Publishing · See more »

Sacheverell Sitwell

Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet (15 November 1897 – 1 October 1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Sacheverell Sitwell · See more »

Sexual abuse

Sexual abuse, also referred to as molestation, is usually undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Sexual abuse · See more »

Thoby Stephen

Julian Thoby Stephen (9 September 1880 – 20 November 1906), known as the Goth, was the brother of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, both prominent members of the Bloomsbury Group, and of Adrian Stephen.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Thoby Stephen · See more »

Vanessa Bell

Vanessa Bell (née Stephen; 30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961) was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Vanessa Bell · See more »

Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 188228 March 1941) was an English writer, who is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and Virginia Woolf · See more »

William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922) was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist.

New!!: Gerald Duckworth and William Henry Hudson · See more »

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Duckworth

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »