Literature and Art Flashcards

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Jane Austen

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novelist. Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility.

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Charles Dickens

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novelist. Oliver Twist, Great Expectations.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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writer, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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4
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Thomas Hardy

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writer and poet, Far from the Madding Crowd

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5
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Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sherlock Holmes

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6
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Evelyn Waugh

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Brideshead Revisited.

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7
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Kingsley Amis

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novelist, Lucky Jim

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Graham Greene

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writer Brighton Rock

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JK Rowling

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writer, Harry Potter

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10
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William Golding

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novelist

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11
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Harold Pinter

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playwright

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12
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Ian Fleming

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writer, James Bond

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13
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Seamus Heany

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poet

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14
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Agatha Christie

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writer, detective stories

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15
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JRR Tolkien

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The Lord of the Rings

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16
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Thomas Gainsborough

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portrait painter, painted people in landscape scenes

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17
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David Allan

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portrait painter

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18
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Joseph Turner

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landscape painter

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19
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John Constable

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landscape painter

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20
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Pre-Raphalites

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painters detailed pictures on religious or literary themes. Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Millais.

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21
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John Lavery

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Northern Irish portrait painter. Painter the Royal Family.

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22
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Henry Moore

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English sculptor.

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23
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John Petts

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Welsh. engravings and stained glass.

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24
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Lucian Freud

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portraits

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25
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David Hockney

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painter. pop-era

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26
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Thomas Chippendale

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furniture designer 18th C

27
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Clarice Cliff

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Art Deco ceramics

28
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Terence Conran

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interior designer

29
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Gertrude Jekyll

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landscape architect.

30
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Edwin Lutyns

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architect. New Delhi and Cenotaph

31
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John Milton

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poet. Paradise Lost

32
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William Wordsworth

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poet. The Daffodils

33
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Walter Scott

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poet and novelist from Scotland

34
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William Blake

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19th C poet. The Tyger.

35
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John Keats

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19th C poet

36
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Lord Byron

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19th C poet. She Walks in Beauty.

37
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Percy Shelley

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19th C poet

38
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Alfred Lord Tennyson

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19th C poet

39
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Robert and Elizabeth Browning

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19th C poet. Home Thoughts from Abroad.

40
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Wilfred Owen

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poet WWI. Anthem for Doomed Youth.

41
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Siegfried Sassooon

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poet WWI

42
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Walter de la Mare

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contemporary poet

43
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John Masefield

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contemporary poet

44
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John Betjeman

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contemporary poet

45
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Ted Hughes

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contemporary poet

46
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Alexander Korda

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film director. Originally from Hungry.

47
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David Lean

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film director. Lawrence of Arabia. Brief Encounter.

48
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Ridley Scott

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film director. Blade Runner

49
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Nick Park

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annimation. Wallace and Gromit

50
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Lawrence Olivier

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actor

51
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David Niven

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actor

52
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Rex Harrison

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actor

53
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Richard Burton.

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actor

54
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Alfred Hitchcock

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director. 39 Steps.

55
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Carol Reed

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director. The Third Man

56
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Frank Launder

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director. The Belle of St Trinian’s

57
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Ken Russell

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director. Women in Love

58
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Nicolas Roeg

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director. Don’t Look Now

59
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Hugh Hudson

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director. Chariots of Fire

60
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Roland Joffe

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director. The Killing Fields

61
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Mike Newell

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director. Four Weddings and a Funeral.

62
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Kevin MacDonald

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director. Touching the Void

63
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Morecambe and Wise

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music hall comedians.