The book is a roman à thèse, or a novel with a thesis — which was meant to create a furor over the squalor that was plaguing England's working class cities.
Disraeli's novel was made into a silent film called Sybil in 1921, starring Evelyn Brent and Cowley Wright.
Disraeli's interest in this subject stemmed from his interest in the Chartist movement, a working-class political reformist movement that sought universal male suffrage and other parliamentary reforms. (Thomas Carlyle sums up the movement in his 1839 essay "Chartism.") Chartism failed as a parliamentary movement (three petitions to Parliament were rejected); however, five of the "Six Points" of Chartism would become a reality within a century of the group's formation.
Moon of Israel is a novel by Rider Haggard, first published in 1918 by John Murray. The novel narrates the events of the Biblical Exodus from Egypt told from the perspective of a scribe named Ana.
Haggard dedicated his novel to Sir Gaston Maspero, a distinguished Egyptologist and director of Cairo Museum.
June 19 – Stephen King is hit by a Dodge van while taking a walk. He spends the next three weeks hospitalized and does not continue with his next book, On Writing, until July.
Persephone Books established in Bloomsbury, London, by Nicola Beauman to reprint neglected mid-20th century fiction and non-fiction primarily by women.
Sybil Fawlty is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers. She is played by Prunella Scales. Her age is listed as 34 years old as seen on her medical chart in the 1975 episode "The Germans", thus presumably indicating that she was born in 1941. Scales was 43 years old when Fawlty Towers began.
Personality
She is Basil Fawlty's wife, and the only recurring character in the series who regularly refers to him by his first name (the Major addresses Basil by his first name in "Communication Problems"). Sybil is a far more effective worker and manager than Basil; she handles crises calmly, picks up the pieces after a nasty confrontation and stays polite to guests. Despite her effectiveness as a worker, however, she is known to be extremely lazy; during busy check-in sessions or meal-times, while everyone else is busy working around her, she's frequently seen talking on the phone to one of her friends (usually 'Audrey', who makes an appearance in "The Anniversary"), smoking, chatting with customers, or reading Harold Robbins' novels. In "The Kipper and the Corpse", she does little to help Basil, Manuel and Polly with the disposal of Mr. Leeman's body, prompting Basil to direct all the complaints to her. He does the same trick in "Waldorf Salad". Basil is utterly terrified of Sybil, describing her to Irish builder O'Reilly in "The Builders" as having the ability to "kill a man at ten paces with one blow of her tongue."
Sybil (titled Walk On By in the UK) is the second studio album by American singer Sybil, released in 1989. Five singles were released off the album, "Can't Wait (On Tomorrow)", which had been released as a standalone single in 1988, and two cover versions of the Burt Bacharach and Hal David-written Dionne Warwick songs "Don't Make Me Over" and "Walk On By", which were both released as singles in 1989 and 1990 respectively. These two singles became Sybil's first real big hits worldwide, and were followed by "Crazy for You" (featuring Salt-N-Pepa) and a cover of Michael Jackson's "I Wanna Be Where You Are".
The album itself became Sybil's biggest hit in North America, and the only one to enter the Billboard 200, and achieved its biggest sales in New Zealand, where "Don't Make Me Over" hit #1, and the album peaked at #3. "Don't Make Me Over" had been first released on Sybil's previous album Let Yourself Go, but had not been released as a single. The song "Love's Calling" was later included, in a new remix, on Sybil's 1993 album Doin' It Now!.
The attempt is only partly successful ...Johnson’s efforts to assist the low-paid by “levelling up” chimed with Disraeli’s long-running sympathy with the working poor, reflected in his 1845 novel Sybil, or The Two Nations ... QuilletteToby Young ... .
The word “Sybil” is derived from a novel about a woman with multiple personalities, which means the act of individuals creating numerous identities or accounts to take advantage of token distributions.
The launch represents a significant leap forward in the ongoing battle against Sybil attacks, ensuring a more secure and trustworthy digital environment ... refined their approach to Sybil defense.
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