Edward Augustine Wyke-Smith (12 April 1871 – 16 May 1935) was an English adventurer, mining engineer and writer. He is known mainly for The Marvellous...
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lyricist Edward Smith (biographer) (1839–1919), English biographer Edward Gordon Smith (1857–1906), British postcard publisher Edward Wyke Smith (1871–1935)...
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literary antecedents include Sinclair Lewis's 1922 novel Babbitt, and Edward Wyke Smith's 1927 The Marvellous Land of Snergs. The word "hobbit" also appears...
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Snowball Dodie Smith (1896–1990) – The Hundred and One Dalmatians Edward Wyke Smith (1871–1935) – The Marvellous Land of Snergs Georgina Castle Smith (1845–1933)...
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Sir Wyke Bayliss FSA RBA (21 October 1835 – 5 April 1906) was a British painter, author, and poet. He almost exclusively painted interiors of British and...
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Poland/Prussia, p/d/nf) William Wycherley (1641–1716, England, d) Edward Wyke-Smith (1871–1935, England, f/ch) Elinor Wylie (1885–1928, US, p/f) I. A...
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Lennox Wyke, GCMG, KCB (2 September 1815 – 4 October 1897) was a British diplomat. Wyke was born on 2 September 1815, was the son of George Wyke, of Robbleston...
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fantasy, such as George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin. Edward Wyke-Smith's Marvellous Land of Snergs, with its "table-high" title characters...
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Masefield – The Midnight Folk A. A. Milne – Now We Are Six (verse) Edward Wyke Smith – The Marvellous Land of Snergs (proto-Hobbits) Ruth Plumly Thompson...
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(1925), History in English Words (1926) and Poetic Diction (1928). Edward Wyke-Smith's Marvellous Land of Snergs, with its "table-high" title characters...
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