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unusual facts about Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby


Inside Mr. Enderby

The series began with the publication in 1963 of Inside Mr. Enderby, continued in 1968 with Enderby Outside and 1974 with The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End, and concluded after a ten year break in 1984 with Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby.


Alet Island

Enderby Bank is a reef about 5 miles west northwest of the island.

Atlantic Telegraph Company

When a second cable, under Thomson's supervision, was proposed, a new subsidiary company, the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, was formed to execute the new venture.

Australian Capital Territory House of Assembly

Whitlam had appointed the local federal MP, Kep Enderby, as Minister for the ACT, and Enderby sought to create a new representative body along the lines of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, which had been created in 1974 and at the time was not self-governing.

Enderby Island cattle

Over the 80 years of subsequent isolation the cattle survived well despite the harsh climate, feeding on Enderby's scrub vegetation, Southern Rata, and seaweed, evolving to cope with the environment.

Krasin

Krasin Nunataks, a group of nunataks, in the Nye Mountains, Enderby Land, named after the first icebreaker Krasin

Leicester Urban Area

Littlethorpe formed part of Narborough/Enderby in the 2001 census and came under the Enderby subdivision.

Mavis Enderby

Douglas Adams used the name "Mavis Enderby" in his spoof The Meaning of Liff dictionary "of things that there aren't any words for yet".

Sir Arthur Cowell-Stepney

However, during his time overseas he acquired substantial estates in Australia and Canada (near Enderby, BC, where his estates were managed by George Heggie).

The Wreck of the Deutschland

The poem plays a major role in Anthony Burgess' third "Enderby" novel, The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End, in which Enderby pitches an idea for a movie adaptation of the poem and produces a script, only to be duly horrified when the resulting movie bears little resemblance to either his script or to Hopkins's poem.


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