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unusual facts about The Farmer's Boy


The Farmer's Boy

A legend in Little Leigh, Cheshire, suggests that the song is based on the life of the Reverend Thomas Fownes Smith (1802-1866) and was written by his brother-in-law, Charles Whitehead (born 1792).


Charlotte Mew

Her first collection of poetry, The Farmer's Bride, was published in 1916, in chapbook format, by the Poetry Bookshop; in the USA, Her second collection was entitled Saturday Market and published in 1921 by Macmillan.

Cypress Hills massacre

A fictionalized account of the events of the Cypress Hills massacre is told in the novel The Englishman's Boy by Canadian author Guy Vanderhaeghe.

James Hamilton-Paterson

His novel Ghosts of Manila (1994) portrayed the Philippine capital in all its decay and violence and was highly critical of the Marcoses - a view he rescinded with the publication of America's Boy (1998), which sets the Marcos regime into the geopolitical context of the time.

Mama's Boy

Eccentric Jeffrey Mannus (Jon Heder) is 29 years old and lives with his mother, Jan (Diane Keaton).

Nobody's Girl

It is part of the World Masterpiece Theater collection, which also adapted Nobody's Boy, another of Malot's novels, into an anime called "Remi, Nobody's Girl".

Octomania

While he gives off the impression that he is quite evil, he is actually a mama's boy.

Shana Hiatt

She has also appeared in television shows and movies including Must Love Dogs and Grandma's Boy .

The Baker's Boy

Jack's life changes dramatically after Baralis hires him as a blind scribe.

The Story of Perrine

That work was used as the basis of two separate anime series: Nobody's Boy: Remi and Remi, Nobody's Girl.

Tim Hamilton

Tim Hamilton (director), American filmmaker; directed first feature, Mama's Boy in 2007; Palme d'Or nomination (Truth in Advertising, 2001)


see also

1800 in literature

English "ploughboy poet" Robert Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy is published with engravings by Thomas Bewick, selling over 25,000 copies in the next two years, with 15 editions by 1827 and a number of translations.