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unusual facts about Emma Taylor-Isherwood


Emma Taylor-Isherwood

She played the part of Henry Higgins' mother in Canterbury High School's 2004 production of My Fair Lady.


Benjamin F. Isherwood

After the presidential inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant, Isherwood's longtime patron, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, could no longer protect him.

Bret Anthony Johnston

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Independent of London and The Irish Times, the collection has received the Southern Reviews Annual Short Fiction Award, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, the Texas Institute of Letters' Debut Fiction Award, the Christopher Isherwood Prize, the James Michener Fellowship, and was shortlisted for Ireland's Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, "the richest short story prize in the world."

Christopher and His Kind

The film, also called Christopher and His Kind, was directed by Geoffrey Sax, stars Matt Smith in the role of Christopher Isherwood.

Down There

Down There on a Visit, novel from English author Christopher Isherwood

Francis Isherwood

Francis was the third son of Richard Ramsbottom Isherwood of Clewer Lodge and Reading, both in Berkshire, and his wife, Anna Clarendon, the daughter of William Cox of Windsor in New South Wales, Australia.

Francis Turville-Petre

Isherwood's stay with Turville-Petre on Agios Nikolaos has been described as 'farcical but grim', and in 1959 Isherwood wrote a lightly fictionalised version of Fronny in Down There on a Visit, where he is portrayed as Ambrose, the mad king of a small Greek island.

Ishi

Author George R. Stewart gave the name "Ish" (short for Isherwood) to the protagonist in his novel Earth Abides, a post-apocalyptic novel in which Ish emerges from his cabin in the mountains to find a plague of mass proportions had swept through the United States, leaving him to be the last of his "tribe," the Americans.

James Lawrence Isherwood

James Lawrence Isherwood (7 April 1917 – 9 June 1989) was an English artist, born in Wigan, Lancashire.

Jean Isherwood

The images represent the diversity of the Australian landscape and include "the filmy veil of greenness' seen from Isherwood's own window, a flood on the Darling River, a bushfire in the Blue Mountains and a forest of ringbarked trees near Armidale.

In 1982 Isherwood heard on the radio that a statue was to be erected as a memorial to Dorothea Mackellar at Gunnedah, on Australia Day, 26 January 1983.

Jean Ross

Jean Ross was working as a nightclub singer in Weimar Germany in 1931 when she shared lodgings with Isherwood, becoming immortalised as the "divinely decadent" Sally Bowles in Isherwood's 1939 memoir Goodbye to Berlin.

Longitudinal framing

Longitudinal framing (also called the Isherwood system after British naval architect Sir Joseph Isherwood, who patented it in 1906) is a method of ship construction in which large, widely spaced transverse frames are used in conjunction with light, closely spaced longitudinal members.

Prater Violet

Prater Violet is based on Isherwood's experience as a screenwriter for the British Gaumont film Little Friend (1934), directed by Berthold Viertel and starring Matheson Lang and Nova Pilbeam.

Sally Bowles

Sally Bowles is based on Jean Ross, a woman Isherwood knew during the years he lived in Berlin between the World Wars (1931—1933).

Turville-Petre

Francis Turville-Petre, an English archaeologist, famous for discovering the 'Galilee Skull', and a friend of Christoped Isherwood and W. H. Auden


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