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Born in Manchester, England on November 24 1849, Frances Eliza Hodgson was the eldest daughter in a family of two boys and three girls. After her father's death when she was three years old, the Hodgsdons experienced severe financial difficulties. As a young girl, she would scrawl little stories on sheets of old notebooks, as she was unable to afford proper writing materials. In 1865 the family moved to Tennessee where they lived in a log cabin and the teenage Frances set up a little school. She began submitting stories to women's magazines and in a time when most women did not have careers, Frances Eliza Hodgsdon was a literary success. In 1873 she married Dr. Swan Burnett and they had two sons -- Lionel, born 1874, and Vivian, born 1876 -- but the marriage was not a happy one. Her younger son, Vivian, clamoured for something for little boys to read, so Frances wrote "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and modeled the main character after him. In 1890 tragedy struck when her eldest son, Lionel, died of influenza. Frances and Swan separated and finally divorced in 1898, and she went on to remarry Stephen Townshend. Frances moved to Long Island, New York in 1901 and there began to write her two most famous stories -- "A Little Princess" and "The Secret Garden", inspired by her poor childhood and her love for gardening. She became rather eccentric in her old age, but delighted in her grandchildren. Frances Hodgson Burnett died on 29 October 1924.- Writer
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He started to study at the Uppsala University but dropped out to pursue an economically unstable career as a journalist. In 1872 he published the first of his many masterpieces, 'Mäster Olof'. In 1874 he got a position at the Royal Library in Stockholm, which enabled him to marry 'Siri von Essen'. He published his novel 'Röda rummet' in 1879, a novel critical towards the press, the church, the publishers, the parliament and the state departments. With it he started the realism of the 1880s in Swedish literature. By the middle of the 1880s he had enemies everywhere and moved to Switzerland. With his novels 'Giftas' his hostility towards women increased, partly as a result of marital problems. His spoof of the holy communion lead to charges of blasphemy. At the end of the 1880s he wrote several novels about life in the archipelago, for example the successful novel 'Hemsöborna'. At the beginning of the 1890s he was briefly married to the Austrian 'Frida Uhl'. After the divorce he moved to Paris and studied ocultism and alchemy. He suffered from a psychological crisis. In 1901 he married actress Harriet Bosse for whom he wrote the play that he himself considered his best, 'Ett drömspel'. Today he is today considered one of Sweden's most important writers.- George Berrell (16 December 1849 - 20 April 1933) was an American actor of both the 19th and early 20th Century stage and of the silent era. He appeared in numerous stage plays as well as 55 films over the course of a career that ran from 1850 to 1927.
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died in Los Angeles, California.
Little can be found about George Berrell beyond brief descriptions of his film career, however, he was an important though not famous actor, stage manager and director of the 19th Century American theater, and central to the growth of the theater in St. Louis. Born to a theatrical family, he first appeared as an infant on stage at the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia in 1850 . As a child he earned his keep and helped support his widowed mother, an actress, by carrying costume baskets for actors in any company of which she might be a member. John Wilkes Booth was one of those, and Berrell speaks affectionately of him in his unpublished autobiography, "Theatrical and Other Reminiscsences." In his late teens and early twenties he roamed the country, often afoot, with the goal of "growing up with the country," as he put it in the autobiography. Shortly after leaving Dr. Barton's Military Academy outside of Philadelphia, he was walking south along the Missouri River when a rider approached him from behind. Dismounting, he introduced himself as Turner Tinnell and as they traveled on by walk and tie, Turner offered Berrell a job teaching school on Keg Island, a Missouri River mud flat island. Berrell accepted and taught there for a year, his students being the children of Confederate fugitives, many former members of Quantrill's Raiders and cohorts of Frank and Jesse James. Illness forced him to leave and he returned to Philadelphia where his mother nursed him back to health. Later he explored the frontier, living for a while in Laramie, Wyoming, where he describes his involvement in the arrest of a corrupt city policeman name Louis Roudepouch.
For a number of years he alternated between traveling the country and working odd jobs, in lumber camps, on the railroad, in drug stores and post offices, doing whatever work he could find. In his late twenties or early thirties he returned to the theater and stayed there until around 1915 when he retired and started working in silent pictures, a job he did not consider on a par with acting in the theater. In 1917 he appeared in John Ford's first full-length film, "Straight Shooting."
The novel, "Shadows and Acts," by Wilson Roberts based in part on Berrell's unpublished autobiography, details his adventurous life and explores the conflicts engendered by his tempestuous relationship with Booth and his life-long friendship with the actress, Catherine Terrell, as well as his pursuit by Miranda Ives, the daughter of a serpent handling preacher he first encountered while teaching on Keg Island. The novel is due to be published in 2011. - Rosalie Ida Straus was born on 6 February 1849 in Worms, Grand Duchy of Hesse [now Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany]. She was married to Isidor Straus. She died on 15 April 1912 in North Atlantic Ocean.
- Robert Barr was born on 16 September 1849 in Scotland, UK. Robert was a writer, known for The King's Move in the City (1914) and The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971). Robert died on 21 October 1912 in England, UK.
- Louis R. Grisel was born on 26 November 1849 in Newcastle, Delaware, USA. He was an actor, known for The Dancer's Peril (1917), The Cinderella Man (1917) and The Moral Deadline (1919). He was married to Mary Q. Johnstone (actress) (1863-1931). He died on 19 November 1928 in Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA.
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Tatzumbia Dupea was born on 26 July 1849 in Lone Pine, California, USA. She was an actress. She died on 26 February 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Aleksander Swietochowski was born on 18 January 1849 in Stoczek Lukowski, Poland, Russian Empire [now Stoczek Lukowski, Lubelskie, Poland]. Aleksander was a writer, known for Klub szachistów (1967). Aleksander died on 25 April 1938 in Golotczyzna, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Henry Belmar was born on 27 April 1849 in Atlantic Ocean. He was an actor, known for Whither Thou Goest (1917), Life's Shop Window (1914) and The Raiders (1916). He was married to Laurel Love. He died on 12 January 1931 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Jean Richepin was born on 4 February 1849 in Médéa, Algeria. He was a writer and actor, known for Le chemineau (1917), The Siren (1913) and Le chemineau (1935). He was married to Marie Emmanuele de Stempowska and Eugénie Constant. He died on 12 December 1926 in Paris, France.- Sarah Orne Jewett was born on 3 September 1849 in South Berwick, Maine, USA. She was a writer, known for Camera Three (1955), Your Show Time (1949) and Out of the Past (1998). She died on 24 June 1909 in South Berwick, Maine, USA.
- Luther Burbank was born on 7 March 1849 in Lancaster, Massachusetts, USA. He was married to Elizabeth Jane Waters and Wife: Helen Coleman. He died on 11 April 1926 in Santa Rosa, California, USA.
- Hanna von und zu Liechtenstein was born on 13 August 1849 in Vienna, Austria. She was an actress, known for Johann Strauß an der schönen blauen Donau (1913). She was married to Aloys Franz de Paula Maria von und zu Liechtenstein. She died on 31 January 1925 in Baden, Lower Austria, Austria.
- Alfred Fisher was born on 14 January 1849 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Prince and the Pauper (1915), Beasts of Paradise (1923) and The Fighting American (1924). He died on 26 August 1933 in Glendale, California, USA.
- Karel Veselý was born on 28 January 1849 in Trubín, Austrian Empire [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Z lásky (1929), Dáma z baru (1924) and Prazské deti (1928). He died on 19 April 1930 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Emanuel Reicher was born on 18 June 1849 in Bochnia, Galicia, Austrian Empire [now Malopolskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Crown of Thorns (1923) and Heimat und Fremde (1913). He was married to Lina Harf and Hedwig Kindermann (aka Hedwig Reicher, actress). He died on 15 May 1924 in Berlin, Germany.
- Daniel Gilfether was born on 17 January 1849 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Love Liar (1915), Brand's Daughter (1917) and Zollenstein (1917). He died on 3 May 1919 in Long Beach, California, USA.
- Maud Granger was born on 25 December 1849 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. She was an actress, known for The White Pearl (1915), Zaza (1915) and The Runaway Wife (1915). She was married to W.R. Baxter and Alfred Cecil Calmour (1857-1912) playwright. She died on 17 August 1928 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Alexander Kielland was born on 18 February 1849 in Stavanger, Norway. He was a writer, known for Søren Søndervold (1942), Sankt Hans fest (1947) and Tørres Snørtevold (1940). He was married to Beate Ramsland and Bertha Elisabeth Rasmusdatter Aarre. He died on 6 April 1906 in Bergen, Norway.
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Herkomer was a painter who founded an art school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, in the 1880s. His film company produced only a handful of films, of which not a single can appears to have survived. He was widely credited with pushing cinema to new artistic heights, with bringing down the pace of the action to a more realistic speed and with taking more care than most with his period costumes and settings. He commissioned scripts from literary sources, notably the novels of Marie Corelli and Thomas Hardy, but none of these seem to have made it on to the screen.- August von Mackensen was born on 6 December 1849 in Haus Leipnitz, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia [now Saxony, Germany]. He was a writer, known for Totenkopfreiter (1917), Hearst-Selig News Pictorial, No. 28 (1915) and Pathé News, No. 100 (1916). He died on 8 November 1945 in Habighorst [now Lower Saxony], Germany.
- Jacob August Riis was born on 3 May 1849 in Ribe, Denmark.
- Vladimir Davydov was born on 19 January 1849 in Novomirgorod, Bobrinets uyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Novomyrhorod, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Svadba Krechinskogo (1908). He died on 23 June 1925 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
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James Whitcomb Riley was born on 7 October 1849 in Greenfield, Indiana, USA. He was a writer, known for An Old Sweetheart of Mine (1923), The Girl I Loved (1923) and A Hoosier Romance (1918). He died on 22 July 1916 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.- Auguste Van Biene was born on 16 May 1849 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. He was an actor and writer, known for The Broken Melody (1916), The Broken Melody (1896) and The Broken Melody (1907). He was married to Rachel de Solla and Mrs. Van Biene. He died on 23 January 1913 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.