Sculptors (1572 pages found in this category)


Grub Street

Once a London street famous for its low-end publishers and hack writers, Grub Street has become a pejorative term for impoverished writers and works of low literary value.

Grub Street Journal

Weekly satirical newspaper published from 1730 until 1737.

Gruel

Any kind of roasted and crushed cereal moistened by being mixed with water or milk.

Gunpowder Plot

Attempt in 1605 to assassinate King James I and re-establish a Catholic monarchy by blowing up the House of Lords.

Guy Fawkes

Member of the group of English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Guy Fawkes (novel)

First of Ainsworth's seven Lancashire novels, first published in serialised form in 1840 and then as a three-volume set in 1841, based in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Guy Fawkes Day

Annual celebration of the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Gwennap

Hamlet and civil parish in West Cornwall.

Gwennap Pit

Amphitheatre in which John Wesley preached between 1762 and 1789, occupying a depression that was possibly formed by the subsidence of underground mine workings.

H. G. Wells bibliography

List of publications written by H. G. Wells during the more than fifty years of his literary career.