The wreck of the Grosvenor, an East Indiaman, occurred on 4 August 1782 on the Pondoland coast of South Africa, north of the Umzimvubu River. The shipwreck...
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The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1877) is a nautical novel by William Clark Russell first published in 3 volumes by Sampson Low. According to John Sutherland...
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actual 1782 wreck of the Grosvenor (see above). Grosvenor Capital Management Grosvenor gambit or coup, a psychological play in the game of contract bridge...
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William Clark Russell (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
Russell sold the copyright of The Wreck of the Grosvenor to the publisher Sampson Low for £50 (about £21,000 in 2011 terms). During the next four years...
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1877 in literature (category Years of the 19th century in literature)
– The American Jan Neruda – Povídky malostranské (Tales of the Little Quarter) Margaret Oliphant – Carità William Clark Russell – The Wreck of the Grosvenor...
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Nautical fiction (redirect from History of nautical fiction)
especially the first two, John Holdsworth, Chief Mate (1875) and The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1877), both highlight the social anxieties of Victorian Britain...
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Abraham Chiron (category Bankers from the Holy Roman Empire)
The Grosvenor, a ship of the Dutch East India Company, was wrecked in August 1782 on the Pondoland Coast of South Africa, Chiron helped uncover the cause...
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Seosamh Mac Grianna (category People of the Irish Civil War (Anti-Treaty side))
translation of Almayer’s Folly by Joseph Conrad Ivanhoe (1937) translation of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott Báthadh an Ghrosvenor (1955) translation of The Wreck of the...
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Edwin S. Grosvenor is a writer, photographer, and President and Editor-in-Chief of American Heritage. He has published nine books and is best known for...
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from the Downs till she was unfortunately wrecked on the East Coast of Africa. Dalrymple, Alexander (1783). An Account of the Loss of the Grosvenor Indiaman...
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