ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SAINT MARTIN'S SUMMER
Referring to St Martin's feast-day, Oct 31 in the pre-Gregorian calendar (now Nov 11).
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SAINT MARTIN'S SUMMER»
Discover the use of
Saint Martin's summer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Saint Martin's summer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950) was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure. He remains best known for "The Sea Hawk," "Captain Blood," and "Scaramouche."
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Anne Hampton Brewster: 19th-century Author and "social ...
... furnish would be acceptable.39 Brewster took Read's advice and submitted
several stories to Harper's in 1 859 many of which would later become chapters
in Saint Martin's Summer. Only one was accepted and, although she expected to
be ...
Commissions from the popes and the cardinals called artists to Rome in that
luminous Saint Martin's summer that the city enjoyed in the last decades of the
thirteenth century; the decoration of the basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi
employed ...
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The Works of Walter Pater
... but rather the finest and subtlest phase of the middle age itself, its last fleeting
splendour and temperate Saint Martin's summer. In poetry, the Gothic spirit in
France had produced a thousand songs; and in the Renaissance, French poetry
too ...
1 And again, "through casements open to the last mildness of the year, a belated
Saint Martin's summer, the tale was taken up afresh by the charming light click
and clatter, that sound as of the thin, quick, quite feminine surface-breathing of ...
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Pension Reform and Economic Theory: A Non-orthodox Analysis
The literature of Political Economy in England at this time calls to mind the stormy
forward movement in France after Dr. Quesnay's death, but only as a Saint
Martin's summer reminds us of spring. With the year 1830 came the decisive
crises.
... had not waked up, and the feeling of the day likened itself to something than in
happier conditions she would have thought of romantically as Saint Martin's
summer. The counter-clerk had gone to his dinner; she herself was busy with
arrears ...
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On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal
Real summer has slid into Saint Martin's summer with only the slightest drop in
temperature this year, and as we drive out to Bosco for the weekend, a brilliant
sun lights up the landscape. The leaves turning yellow in the vineyards and dark
red ...
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Desiring Italy: Women Writers Celebrate the Passions of a ...
WINTER Despite brief intervals of furious rainfall, Saint Martin's summer holds for
the whole month: the morning crispness wilts in the sun, Francesco* bundles up
only to return at noon in a T-shirt, his discarded sweaters stuffed into his book ...
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Samantha Among the Brethren
1897. With illustrations. Samantha Among the Brethren is an extremely funny and satirical look at male attitudes toward woman, especially those concerned with women's input into church matters.
