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Robert Falcon Scott
Standard Name: Scott, Robert Falcon
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Textual Production | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
in a historical novel, The Birthday Boys, retold the story of Antarctic explorer Captain Scott
. The following year this book was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. |
Textual Features | Beryl Bainbridge | Of the uncollected pieces in Collected Stories, Eric on the Agenda features a woman imagined by her friends to be desperate for a man, her inappropriately flirtatious elderly mother, and her unappetizing suitor. Poles... |
Residence | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
began her married life in a top-floor flat at 34 Catherine Street in Liverpool. Not long afterwards they moved round the corner to Huskisson Street. In 1963, however, she returned to London... |
Literary Setting | Beryl Bainbridge | This novel presents a fictionalized account of Robert Falcon Scott
's doomed expedition to the South Pole. With Scott's actual, poignant surviving diaries in mind, Bainbridge uses imagined diaries by other expedition members to... |
Literary responses | Isabella Beeton | Scholar Nicola Humble
argues that the book in large part created the new cult of domesticity that was to play such a major role in mid-Victorian life. Beeton, Isabella. “Introduction”. Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, edited by Nicola Humble, Abridged, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xxxvii. xii |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ursula K. Le Guin | The image was inspired in part by stories of Arctic and Antarctic explorers like Scott
and Shackleton
. The plot was inspired in part by curiosity about a society with gender subtracted from it: what... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Jane Howard | EJH
met Peter Scott
, son of the explorer Captain Scott
, when she was in her teens and he was thirty-one, and she and her brother were invited to visit as company for his... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Jane Howard | He had taken it for granted that they would marry. She could not imagine rejecting such unbelievable luck. She assured her mother she did not need informing about the difficult side of marriage. Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. Macmillan. 116 |
Timeline
18 January 1912: The British Antarctic expedition of Captain...
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18 January 1912
The British Antarctic expedition of Captain Robert Falcon Scott
reached the South Pole, just over a month behind the Norwegians led by Captain Amundsen
; on 29 March the last three survivors of the...
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