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James Elroy Flecker, the Glossary

James Elroy Flecker (5 November 1884 – 3 January 1915) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet, whose poetry was most influenced by the Parnassian poets.^[1]

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People educated at Dean Close School
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A Dance to the Music of Time

A Dance to the Music of Time is a 12-volume roman-fleuve by English writer Anthony Powell, published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim.

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A Suitable Boy

A Suitable Boy is a novel by Vikram Seth, published in 1993.

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Aestheticism

Aestheticism (also known as the aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century that valued the appearance of literature, music, fonts and the arts over their functions.

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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. James Elroy Flecker and Agatha Christie are 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights.

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Anthony Powell

Anthony Dymoke Powell (21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his 12-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Audiobook

An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud.

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Basil Dean

Basil Herbert Dean CBE (27 September 1888 – 22 April 1978) was an English actor, writer, producer and director in the theatre and in cinema.

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Basil Gill

Basil Gill (10 March 1877 – 23 April 1955) was a British stage actor and film actor.

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Beasts and Super-Beasts

Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories, written by Saki (the literary pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro) and first published in 1914.

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Book series

A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group.

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Bouncer's Lane Cemetery, Cheltenham

Bouncer's Lane Cemetery, also known as Cheltenham Cemetery and Prestbury Cemetery, at Bouncer's Lane, Prestbury, Cheltenham, is a cemetery founded by the Burial Board of the Improvement Commissioners for Cheltenham.

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Cathleen Nesbitt

Cathleen Nesbitt (born Kathleen Mary Nesbitt; 24 November 18882 August 1982) was an English actress.

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Christ's Hospital

Christ's Hospital is a public school (English fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 11–18) with a royal charter, located to the south of Horsham in West Sussex.

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Davos

Davos (or; help; Old Tavate) is an Alpine resort town and a municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.

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Dean Close School

Dean Close School is a co-educational private boarding and day school for pupils aged 3–18) in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, South West England, UK. The school is divided into pre-prep, preparatory and senior schools located on separate but adjacent sites outside Cheltenham town centre, occupying the largest single private area of land within the town, at some 50 acres. James Elroy Flecker and Dean Close School are People educated at Dean Close School.

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Decasyllable

Decasyllable (Italian: decasillabo, French: décasyllabe, Serbian: десетерац, deseterac) is a poetic meter of ten syllables used in poetic traditions of syllabic verse.

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Douglas Goldring

Douglas Goldring (7 January 1887 – 9 April 1960) was an English writer and journalist. James Elroy Flecker and Douglas Goldring are English male novelists.

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Eastern Mediterranean

Eastern Mediterranean is a loose definition of the eastern approximate half, or third, of the Mediterranean Sea, often defined as the countries around the Levantine Sea.

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Ebook

An ebook (short for electronic book), also spelled as e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in electronic form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices.

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Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was an English writer of fiction and children's books.

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Esme Percy

Saville Esmé Percy (8 August 1887 – 17 June 1957) was an English actor who specialized in the plays of G.B. Shaw and appeared in 40 films between 1930 and 1956.

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Eugène Goossens, fils

Eugène Goossens (28 January 1867 – 31 July 1958) was a French-born conductor and violinist.

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Flashman at the Charge

Flashman at the Charge is a 1973 novel by George MacDonald Fraser.

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Frederick Delius

Delius, photographed in 1907 Frederick Theodore Albert Delius (born Fritz Theodor Albert Delius;; 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934) was an English composer.

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George MacDonald Fraser

George MacDonald Fraser (2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was a Scottish author and screenwriter.

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Geraldine Hodgson

Geraldine Emma Hodgson (19 May 1865 – 3 December 1937) was an English promoter of teacher training, a prolific author and a suffragist.

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Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

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Harry Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center, known as the Humanities Research Center until 1983, is an archive, library, and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities.

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Henry Ainley

Henry Hinchliffe Ainley (21 August 1879 – 31 October 1945) was an English actor.

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Herald (newspaper)

Herald or The Herald is the name of various newspapers.

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Hereford

Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and the county town of Herefordshire, England.

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Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh ("Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a state in the northern part of India.

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His Majesty's Theatre, London

His Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre situated in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster, London.

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Indian Army

The Indian Army is the land-based branch and largest component of the Indian Armed Forces.

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Indian Special Forces Training School

The Indian Army's Special Forces Training School is the training institution for Indian Army special forces, based at Nahan, a hill town in Himachal Pradesh.

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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic.

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John Addington Symonds

John Addington Symonds Jr. (5 October 1840 – 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic.

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John Beazley

Sir John Davidson Beazley, (13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style.

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John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. James Elroy Flecker and John Keats are poets from London.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature.

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Julian Lloyd Webber

Julian Lloyd Webber (born 14 April 1951) is a British solo cellist, conductor and broadcaster, a former principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the founder of the In Harmony music education programme.

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Laura Cowie

Laura Cowie (7 April 1892 – 11 February 1969) was a Scottish silent film actress.

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Leon Quartermaine

Leon Quartermaine (24 September 1876 – 25 June 1967) was a British actor whose stage career, in Britain and the United States, extended from the early 1900s to the 1950s.

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Lewisham

Lewisham is an area of southeast London, England, south of Charing Cross.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Malcolm Keen

Malcolm Keen (8 August 1887 – 30 January 1970) (born Malcolm Knee; he later changed his surname to Keen) was an English actor of stage, film and television.

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Marazan

Marazan is the first published novel by the British author Nevil Shute.

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Michel Fokine

Michael Fokine (– 22 August 1942) was a Russian choreographer and dancer.

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Nahan

Nahan is a town in Himachal Pradesh in India and is the headquarters of the Sirmaur District.

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Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (born Neil Richard Gaiman on 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and screenplays.

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Nevil Shute

Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia.

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New Zealand Special Air Service

The 1st New Zealand Special Air Service Regiment, abbreviated as 1 NZSAS Regt, is the special forces unit of the New Zealand Army, closely modelled on the British Special Air Service (SAS).

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service is a 1969 spy film and the sixth in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions.

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Papakura Military Camp

Papakura Military Camp is a New Zealand Army military camp located in the Auckland suburb of Papakura North, in northern New Zealand.

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Parnassianism

Parnassianism (or Parnassism) was a group of French poets that began during the positivist period of the 19th century (1860s–1890s), occurring after romanticism and prior to symbolism.

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Pastiche

A pastiche is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, music, or architecture that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists.

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Percy Fletcher

Percy Eastman Fletcher (12 December 1879 – 10 September 1932) was a British composer of classical music best known today for his brass and military band music.

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Postern of Fate

Postern of Fate is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie that was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1973Collins Crime Club – A checklist of First Editions Chris Peers, Ralph Spurrier and Jamie Sturgeon.

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Quatrain

A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines.

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Round the Bend (novel)

Round the Bend is a 1951 novel by Nevil Shute.

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Saki

Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture.

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Samarkand

Samarkand or Samarqand (Uzbek and Tajik: Самарқанд / Samarqand) is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia.

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Special Air Service

The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army.

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Sunbury-on-Thames

Sunbury-on-Thames, known locally as Sunbury, is a town on the north bank of the River Thames in the Borough of Spelthorne, Surrey, England, southwest of central London.

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T. E. Lawrence

Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Sandman (comic book)

The Sandman is a comic book written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics.

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The Sandman: The Wake

The Wake is the tenth and final collection of issues in the American comic book series The Sandman.

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The Sandman: Worlds' End

Worlds' End (1994) is the eighth collection of issues in the DC Comics series The Sandman.

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The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.

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Tracy Bond

Teresa "Tracy" Bond (née Draco, formerly Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo) is a fictional character and the main Bond girl in the 1963 James Bond novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service, where she becomes the first Bond girl to marry 007.

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Trinity College, Oxford

Trinity College (full name: The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope (Knight)) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.

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University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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Uppingham School

Uppingham School is a public school (English fee-charging boarding and day school for pupils 13-18) in Uppingham, Rutland, England, founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester, who also established Oakham School. James Elroy Flecker and Uppingham School are People educated at Uppingham School.

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References

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

Also known as Herman Flecker, J. E. Flecker, James E. Flecker, James Flecker.

, Neil Gaiman, Nevil Shute, New Zealand Special Air Service, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film), Papakura Military Camp, Parnassianism, Pastiche, Percy Fletcher, Postern of Fate, Quatrain, Round the Bend (novel), Saki, Samarkand, Special Air Service, Sunbury-on-Thames, T. E. Lawrence, The Independent, The Sandman (comic book), The Sandman: The Wake, The Sandman: Worlds' End, The Scotsman, Tracy Bond, Trinity College, Oxford, Tuberculosis, University of Leeds, University of Oxford, Uppingham School, Vikram Seth, Walt Whitman, Yakub Beg of Yettishar.

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People educated at Dean Close School

Tuberculosis deaths in Switzerland

Writers from Cheltenham

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