Jan 24, 2010 14:31
14 yrs ago
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Native in: Chinese 
Works in: Chinese to English, English to Chinese, Japanese to Chinese, and 2 more.
where Octave found her name
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And so the days passed in study, writing, housework, and caring for old ladies three. Dante Gabriel, talented, lovable, erratic, had gotten into bad ways, as a man will who turns night into day and tries to get the start of God Almighty, thinking he has found a substitute for exercise and oxygen. Finally he was taken to Birchington, on the Isle of Thanet (where Octave found her name). He was mentally ill, to a point where he had through his delusions driven away all his old-time friends.
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| 4 +4 | Alice French |
Kim Metzger
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| 5 +3 | Thanet, the place name chosen as a pen name (pseudonym) |
Alison Sabedoria (X)
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| 4 -1 | where she's found her pseudonym under which she wrote |
Thayenga
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Change log
Jan 24, 2010 14:31: changed "Kudoz queue" from "In queue" to "Public"
Responses
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6 mins
Kim Metzger
Mexico
Mexico
Native in English
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English
Specializes in field
Mexico
Committed to Quality and Service
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
Works in: German to English
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Alice French
Octave Thanet is the pseudonym of the writer Alice French. She took the name from the Isle of Thanet.
Alice (“Octave Thanet” ), 1850–1934, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/octave thanet
In the 1890s, one of the most well-known popular magazine contributors signed her stories and essays "Octave Thanet." That pseudonym was used by an Iowan, Alice French (1850-1934). All seventeen of her books -- seven novels, one book of photography, nine short story collections-are available in the Iowa Authors Collection in the University of Iowa Library. To the student of culture and to the generally curious, these books offer a glimpse into the life and ideas that were important to the reading public at the end of the nineteenth century.
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/Bai/mcquin.htm
Isle of Thanet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Thanet
Alice (“Octave Thanet” ), 1850–1934, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/octave thanet
In the 1890s, one of the most well-known popular magazine contributors signed her stories and essays "Octave Thanet." That pseudonym was used by an Iowan, Alice French (1850-1934). All seventeen of her books -- seven novels, one book of photography, nine short story collections-are available in the Iowa Authors Collection in the University of Iowa Library. To the student of culture and to the generally curious, these books offer a glimpse into the life and ideas that were important to the reading public at the end of the nineteenth century.
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/Bai/mcquin.htm
Isle of Thanet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Thanet
Peer comment(s):
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Sébastien GUITTENY
5 mins
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Stephanie Ezrol
57 mins
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Alison Sabedoria (X)
: We got there at the same time, but you managed to add some good refs. I just hope Shirley can access them.
2 hrs
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Good point. That's why I try to give her some text.
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Paula Vaz-Carreiro
20 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "thank you!"
+3
8 mins
Alison Sabedoria (X)
United Kingdom
Native in English
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English
Specializes in field
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Thanet, the place name chosen as a pen name (pseudonym)
Thanet is a place, chosen as the pen name by Alice French:
French, Alice (1850–1934), born in Massachusetts, lived most of her life in Arkansas and Iowa, which provided the settings for her fiction written under the pseudonym Octave Thanet. A conventional figure in the local‐color movement, she added nothing to its traditions except a certain interest in labor problems in the West. She is best known for her short stories, which are collected in such volumes as Knitters in the Sun (1887), Stories of a Western Town (1893), The Missionary Sheriff (1897), The Captured Dream (1899), and Stories That End Well (1911). Among her novels are Expiation (1890), The Man of the Hour (1905), and A Step on the Stair (1913).
French, Alice (1850–1934), born in Massachusetts, lived most of her life in Arkansas and Iowa, which provided the settings for her fiction written under the pseudonym Octave Thanet. A conventional figure in the local‐color movement, she added nothing to its traditions except a certain interest in labor problems in the West. She is best known for her short stories, which are collected in such volumes as Knitters in the Sun (1887), Stories of a Western Town (1893), The Missionary Sheriff (1897), The Captured Dream (1899), and Stories That End Well (1911). Among her novels are Expiation (1890), The Man of the Hour (1905), and A Step on the Stair (1913).
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Sébastien GUITTENY
2 mins
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Thanks penfriend!
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Yasutomo Kanazawa
45 mins
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Thanks Yasutomo!
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Paula Vaz-Carreiro
20 hrs
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Thanks Paula!
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1 hr
where she's found her pseudonym under which she wrote
and by which she became known.
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Cilian O'Tuama
: problems with tense and possessive pronoun - poor English
6 hrs
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Thank you, Cilian. :)
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Discussion
A Sonnet is a moment's monument,
Memorial from the Soul's eternity
To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be,
Whether for lustral rite or dire portent,
Of its own at duousfulness reverent,
Carve it in ivory or in ebony,
As Day or Night may rule; and let Time see
Its flowering crest impearled and or lent.
A Sonnet is a coin: its face reveals
The Soul - its converse, to what Power 'tis due -
Whether for tribute to the august appeals
of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue,
It serve, or, mid the dark wharf's cavernous breath,
In Charon's palm is pay the toll to death.
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