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7 unusual facts about Harcourt


Agnes d'Harcourt

d'Harcourt is a featured figure on Judy Chicago's installation piece The Dinner Party, being represented as one of the 999 names on the Heritage Floor.

Edward Harcourt

Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt (1757–1847), Bishop of Carlisle and Archbishop of York

Harcourt, Victoria

Other things of interest in and around the town are trout fishing and the numerous walking tracks and Koala Park in Mount Alexander Park.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

In August 2013 it was announced that his portrait of François-Henri duc d'Harcourt was to be auctioned, by the Bonhams auction house in London, on 5 December.

Library of the Fathers

Over 600 subscribers had been secured by 1838, including nine English bishops as well as both Archbishops, William Howley and Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt.

Philip Schultz

He is the author of several collections of poetry, including The God of Loneliness, Selected and New Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010); Failure (Harcourt, 2007), winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Living in the Past (Harcourt, 2004); and The Holy Worm of Praise (Harcourt, 2002).

Viscount Harcourt

Harcourt was the son of Sir William Vernon Harcourt, son of William Vernon Harcourt, son of the Right Reverend Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, son of George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon, by his third wife Martha Harcourt, daughter of Simon Harcourt, son of Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt.


A Northern Light

A Northern Light, or A Gathering Light in the U.K., is an American historical novel for young adults, written by Jennifer Donnelly and published by Harcourt in 2003.

Augustus George Vernon Harcourt

In 1872, Harcourt married Rachel Mary Bruce, daughter of the Home Secretary, Henry Bruce.

Baron Vernon

As a prominent son and forefather of the present title holder, their second son was Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York who succeeded to the Harcourt family estates on the death of his cousin the William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt and so assumed by Royal License the surname of Harcourt, with his children known as Vernon-Harcourt.

Brian Henry

Henry has translated Woods and Chalices (Harcourt, 2008) by the Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun and The Book of Things (BOA Editions, 2010) by the Slovenian poet Aleš Šteger.

Bruno, Count of Harcourt

The day prior to the race, Harcourt took his Bugatti out for an early morning practice run on the road course and crashed when he ran off the first bend.

Casa Monica Hotel

David Nolan, Fifty Feet in Paradise: The Booming of Florida (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984).

Cecilia Thackaberry

Federal troops invaded Biafra that year and the Presentation community moved from Port Harcourt to Owerri.

Chimaroke Nnamani

Nnamani, though born in Port Harcourt, hails from Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State.

Digby Mackworth Dolben

His father, William Harcourt Isham Mackworth (1806—1872), a younger son of Sir Digby Mackworth, the 3rd Baronet, took the additional surname Dolben after he married Frances, the heiress of Sir John English Dolben, the 4th Baronet.

Edward Vernon Harcourt

Harcourt was born in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, the son of the Rev. William Vernon Harcourt who was a scientist, and grandson of Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York.

Erdağ Göknar

Göknar's translation of Atiq Rahimi's Earth and Ashes (Harcourt, 2004) was shortlisted for the same award.

George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon

Edward Harcourt (who assumed the surname of Harcourt) became Archbishop of York and was the grandfather of Sir William Vernon Harcourt and the great-grandfather of Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt.

Gold Creek Homestead

Portions of the former property are or will be occupied by parts of the suburbs of Ngunnawal, Nicholls, Harcourt Hill, Moncrieff, Casey, Kinlyside and Taylor.

Harcourt Hill

Well-known residents of Harcourt Hill have included Professor Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Muirhead Bone and Martin Gilbert.

Isaac J. Wistar

Sears, Stephen W., Controversies & Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000, ISBN 0-618-05706-4.

Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy

With her husband, and accompanied by the Countess of Namur, Jeanne de Harcourt, Isabella then travelled through the main territories of Burgundy: from Ghent (16 January) to Kortrijk (13 February) to Lille, and then to Brussels, Arras, Péronne-en-Mélantois, Mechelen and, by mid-March Noyon, where Isabella, now pregnant, chose to rest through the spring, only leaving when Joan of Arc led a campaign against the nearby Compiègne.

John Smith Clarke

Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

Keppel Harcourt Barnard

He was the only son of Harcourt George Barnard M.A. (Cantab.), a solicitor from Lambeth, and Anne Elizabeth Porter of Royston.

King Progress

It would be the only album that included Charlie Harcourt (who would later go on to join Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys and Lindisfarne), Tommy Slone, and Mario Enrique Covarrubias Tapia who would leave shortly after the album was released.

Marilyn Durham

Durham followed up the success of The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing with another character-driven Western novel, Dutch Uncle, which was published by Harcourt in 1973.

Michelle Latimer

Before being on TV, she was involved in several stage productions, such as Anne, Liars, Adventures of Emily Brontesaurus, Reflections on Crooked Walking, Into the Woods, St. Nicholas Hotel, Atreus, Measure for Measure, Grease (as Rizzo), The Music Man, Anything Goes (as Hope Harcourt) and Fiddler on the Roof (as Bielke).

Mitchell Kennerley

Bruccoli, Matthew J., The Fortunes of Mitchell Kennerley, Bookman; 1986, Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich ISBN 0-15-132671-1

Moral clarity

Susan Neiman (2008) Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists Harcourt Inc.

My System

In 1930, a British English edition titled My System, translated by Philip Hereford, was published by Harcourt, Brace and Company.

Nancy Willard

A Visit to William Blake's Inn, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen, was published by Harcourt Brace in 1981.

Nic Harcourt

Harcourt continued to do his Sunday show at KCRW until June 2011, when he took on a new show at KCSN called Connections with Nic Harcourt

Nigerian Ports Authority

Onne is located in Rivers State on Ogu Creek near the Bonny River, 19 km from Port Harcourt; the port area is located in three Local Government Areas of Rivers State, Eleme LGA, Ogu-Bolo LGA and Bonny LGA.

Nightwood

An edition published in the United States in 1937 by Harcourt, Brace included an introduction by T. S. Eliot.

Pierre Charles Le Monnier

Le Monnier was born in Paris, where his father Pierre (1675–1757), also an astronomer, was professor of philosophy at the college d'Harcourt.

Robert Venables Vernon Harcourt

Harcourt was the son of the Liberal statesman, Sir William Harcourt who was briefly leader of the Liberal Party from 1896–98 and his second wife Elizabeth Cabot Motley who was the daughter of John Lothrop Motley sometime Minister of the United States in London and author of a number of works of history.

Sarah Ellison

Sarah Ellison, War at the Wall Street Journal, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2010, ISBN 978-0-547-15243-1

Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt

Harcourt enjoyed the reputation of being a brilliant orator; Speaker Onslow going so far as to say that "Harcourt had the greatest skill and power of speech of any man I ever knew in a public assembly."

Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baronet

Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone married Louisa Augusta Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, daughter of the Most Reverend Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York.

Sleeper effect

Eagly, A.K., & Chaiken, S., The Psychology of Attitudes, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (Fort Worth), 1993.

T. Cullen Davis

A book on the murder trials entitled Blood Will Tell: The Murder Trials of T. Cullen Davis (ISBN 0-15-169961-5) was written by Gary Cartwright and published by Harcourt in 1979.

The Kiss of the Vampire

Gerald (Edward de Souza) and Marianne Harcourt (Jennifer Daniel), are a honeymooning couple in early 20th-century Bavaria who become caught up in a vampire cult led by Dr. Ravna (Noel Willman) and his two children Carl (Barry Warren) and Sabena (Jacquie Wallis).

They Just Had to Get Married

The screenplay was written by Gladys Lehman, H.M. Walker, and an uncredited Preston Sturges, based on the Broadway play A Pair of Silk Stockings (1914) by Cyril Harcourt.

Tropicana Club

The history of the cabaret is detailed in Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub (Harcourt, 2005) by Rosa Lowinger and Ofelia Fox.

William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt

A statue of Lord Harcourt was commissioned (from Robert William Sievier) with the intention that it should be erected at Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, but at the insistence of the royal family, it was placed, instead, in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.

William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny

Lord Abergavenny married Caroline Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, daughter of Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baronet and Louisa Augusta Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, daughter of Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York, on 2 May 1848.


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