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  1. Henry Vernon Esmond (Londres, Inglaterra; 30 de noviembre de 1869 - París; 17 de abril de 1922) fue un actor y dramaturgo británico. Biografía. Su verdadero nombre era Jack Esmond y nació en Londres, Inglaterra, ciudad en la cual empezó su carrera interpretativa en 1889 y en la que tuvo varios éxitos en el campo de las comedias.

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  2. Henry Vernon Esmond (30 November 1869 – 17 April 1922) was a British actor and playwright. Biography. Esmond was born Harry Esmond Jack in Hampton Court, Middlesex, the son of Richard George Jack, a physician and surgeon and his wife Mary Rynd. He was baptised on 22 February 1870 at the Church of St Mary, Hampton Court, Middlesex.

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    Henry Esmond relates his own history in memoir fashion, mainly in the third person but occasionally dropping into the first person. Henry, born about 1678, is an orphan and lives near London in the care of French Huguenot refugees. When Henry is about ten years old, Thomas Esmond, third Viscount Castlewood, removes him from his caretakers and takes...

    In a private critique of the work, written in a letter to a friend, novelist George Eliot labelled it "the most uncomfortable book you can imagine ... the hero is in love with the daughter all through the book, and marries the mother at the end." However, American publisher and writer James T. Fields, in his autobiographical Yesterdays with Authors...

    The sequel to this novel was The Virginians, written in 1857–59. It takes place in both England and America, and details the lives of Esmond's grandsons, brothers George and Henry Warrington.

    Although popularised by British architects George Devey and Richard Norman Shaw, the anachronistic "Queen Anne" design style created in the latter part of the 19th century, for both buildings and furniture, won its Victorian nomenclature via readers' enthusiasm for Thackeray's detailed descriptions of that period in Henry Esmond.[citation needed] T...

    Modern Literary References-Louis Auchincloss mentions Henry Esmond with reference to the protagonist of The Rector of Justin.

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  3. Esmond nació como Harry Esmond Jack en Hampton Court, Middlesex, hijo de Richard George Jack, médico y cirujano, y su esposa Mary Rynd. Fue bautizado el 22 de febrero de 1870 en la Iglesia de Santa María, Hampton Court, Middlesex. Comenzó su carrera como actor en Londres en 1889 [3] donde obtuvo varios éxitos en comedias. Comenzó a escribir obras de teatro, generalmente comedias, cuando ...

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  5. 21 de abr. de 2024 · Overview. History of Henry Esmond, Esquire, The. Quick Reference. A novel by Thackeray, published 1852. Henry Esmond, who narrates his own story, is the (supposed illegitimate) son of the third Viscount Castlewood, who dies at the battle of the Boyne. Henry comes under the protection of the fourth viscount, and his young wife Rachel.

  6. March 11, 2013. This narrative relates the life of the aristocratic-born Henry Esmond. As the 17th Century closes and the 18th dawns, Harry Esmond attends college, goes to jail and serves in the army. William Thackeray describes the demise of James II, reign of William and Mary and Queen Anne.