Phyllis Eleanor Bentley OBE, FRSL (19 November 1894 – 27 June 1977) was an English novelist. The youngest child of a mill owner, she grew up in Halifax...
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a 1967 Granada-produced ITV drama based on a trilogy of novels by Phyllis Bentley - Inheritance (1932), The Rise of Henry Morcar (1946) and A Man of...
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loudness in music. Crescendo may also refer to: Crescendo, 1958 novel by Phyllis Bentley Crescendo, 1998 novel by Mary McCarthy Crescendo, 1928 novel by Henry...
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Paddington Mystery (1925). Marian Phipps, a character in stories by Phyllis Bentley, is an armchair detective in her earliest appearances, solving cases...
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football player Phyllis Bentley (1894–1977), English novelist Richard Bentley (1662–1742), English classical scholar Richard Bentley (publisher) (1794–1871)...
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Thompson Twins William Swinden Barber, architect Richard Bedford, singer Phyllis Bentley, novelist James Bintliff, Union Army General Sarah Blackwood, singer...
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Cragg Coiners were the subject of a children's novel Gold Pieces by Phyllis Bentley. The story is seen through the eyes of a fictitious 12-year-old boy...
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autobiographical, dealing with her failed friendship with the novelist Phyllis Bentley, her romantic feelings for her American publisher George Brett Jr,...
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published 1997), Louisa May Alcott novel Inheritance, a 1932 novel by Phyllis Bentley The Inheritance, a 2005 translation of a novel by Palestinian writer...
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demythologizing China and the Chinese people in the American mind". Phyllis Bentley, in an overview of Buck's work published in 1935, was altogether impressed:...
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