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William Collins wurde als Sohn eines irischen Schriftstellers in London geboren. Zum Freundeskreis der Familie gehörte der Maler George Morland, der den jungen William tief beeindruckte. 1807 begann William Collins an der Royal Academy zu studieren, wo er auch schon im selben Jahr ausstellte. Nach dem frühen Tod seines Vaters 1812 wurde er ...
William Collins & Sons was founded in Glasgow in 1819, and first published bibles, atlases and dictionaries, but later grew to release works from some of history’s greatest authors, such as C.S. Lewis, Agatha Christie, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Today, HarperCollins UK publishes around 1,000 books a year. It is run by Chief Executive Officer Charlie ...
William Collins (25 December 1721 – 12 June 1759) was an English poet. Second in influence only to Thomas Gray , he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century. His lyrical odes mark a progression from the Augustan poetry of Alexander Pope's generation and towards the imaginative ideal of the Romantic era.
CollinsDictionary.com. The unabridged Collins English Dictionary was published on the web on 31 December 2011 on CollinsDictionary.com, along with the unabridged dictionaries of French, German, Spanish and Italian. [4] The site also includes example sentences showing word usage from the Collins Bank of English Corpus, word frequencies and ...
William Collins (cricketer, born 1868) (1868–1942), English cricketer. William Collins (tennis), British tennis player from the 1920s and 30s, see 1930 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles. William Collins (canoeist) (1932–1993), Canadian canoer who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. Bill Collins (athlete) (born 1950), American ...
Sir William Collins (1817–1895) was a Scottish publisher, prominent in the temperance movement who served as Glasgow 's Lord Provost between 1877 and 1880. He was the first fully abstaining Lord Provost of Glasgow and gained the nickname Water Willie. [1] In politics Sir William was an advanced Liberal, and in ecclesiastical matters he was an ...
Mr William Collins is a fictional character in the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. He is the distant cousin of Mr Bennet, a clergyman and holder of a valuable living at the Hunsford parsonage near Rosings Park, the estate of his patroness Lady Catherine De Bourgh, in Kent. Since Mr and Mrs Bennet have no sons, Mr Collins is also ...
