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Evelyn Hope was born on 11 March 1904 in Gateshead, Durham, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Ivanhoe (1913), Single Life (1921) and Across the Atlantic (1914). She was married to Boris Karloff and Tom Helmore. She died on 1 June 1993.
- March 11, 1904
- June 1, 1993
Evelyn Hope (1904-1993) Evelyn Hope. Evelyn Hope was born on 11 March 1904 in Gateshead, Durham, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Ivanhoe (1913), Single Life (1921) and Across the Atlantic (1914). She was married to Boris Karloff and Tom Helmore. She died on 1 June 1993.
- January 1, 1
- Gateshead, Durham, England, UK
- January 1, 1
- Actress
Evelyn Hope is a poem written by Robert Browning in his work "Men and Women", 1855. George Saintsbury writes in his " History of Nineteenth Century Literature ", "It is as a lyric poet that Browning ranks highest; and in this highest class it is impossible to refuse him all but the highest rank, in some few cases the very highest.
Browning's use of descriptive language creates a vivid scene of Evelyn Hope's room, emphasizing her youth and innocence. The poem's simple structure and conversational tone convey a sense of intimacy and longing. The speaker's metaphysical musings on the nature of love, mortality, and eternity were common themes in Victorian literature.
Mrs McGinty's Dead is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1952 [1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 3 March the same year. [2] The US edition retailed at $2.50 [1] and the UK edition at nine shillings and sixpence (9/6). [2]
- Agatha Christie
- 1952
Summary. The speaker of the poem is an older man sitting with the corpse of Evelyn Hope, a 16-year-old girl who has recently died. He is "thrice her age" (line 21). Even though she "had scarcely heard [his] name" (line 9), he longed for her. She was too young to have yet loved, so he never made any direct proposal and wonders whether it is now ...
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I. Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead! Sit and watch by her side an hour. That is her book-shelf, this her bed; She plucked that piece of geranium-flower, Beginning to die too, in the glass; Little has yet been changed, I think: The shutters are shut, no light may pass. Save two long rays thro’ the hinge’s chink.
