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...Another writer beloved by collectors is Octavia Butler, the first black woman to receive both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and the first sci-fi author to be granted a MacArthur fellowship....
...The trust’s founders, especially the radical housing reformer Octavia Hill, were well aware of the constant need for change....
...For a cloakroom in an Oxfordshire house, interior designer Octavia Dickinson is replicating the drapery of a Napoleonic field tent, in wide blue and white stripes....
...Following Octavia Butler and NK Jemisin, it imagines a world after catastrophic climate change....
...A clutch of the big prizes — Nobel (1901), Prix Goncourt (1903), James Tait Black (1919) — date back to the early 20th century; but most are of more recent vintage....
...Jewellers such as Ellis Mhairi Cameron in London, Alexandra Dodds in Sydney and Octavia Elizabeth in LA all tap into the rough-hewn vibe, but set their jewels after the fact....
...Ruskin’s 7,400 missives from the golden age of letter-writing include his correspondence with Charles Darwin, JMW Turner, Lord Palmerston, Octavia Hill and Thomas Carlyle....
...The most recent recruit is Booker-prize-winning novelist Marlon James, who is currently penning an epic fantasy trilogy he describes as an “African Game of Thrones”....
...It’s incredibly fresh and creamy. 1A 432 Octavia St, San Francisco 94102 (+1415-863 1518; www.smittenicecream.com)....
...It’s refined, meditative and life-affirming, and its exploration of gender politics and ethnology confirms Lord as the natural heiress to Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin....
...Accessories maestro Brian Atwood, for example, told me he was flying off with a custom-made clutch and shoes for Octavia Spencer, best supporting actress nominee from The Help....
...; it is beginning to reassert a slightly radical edge, rather than James Lees-Milne [renowned secretary to the Trust’s country house committee] cruising around buying up stately homes.”...
...Octavia Goredema, managing director, Twenty Ten Club, organisation for black women entrepreneurs. Andrew Hatton, technical director, Global Anodes (UK), corrosion protection company....
...And women such as Octavia Hill, he goes on, were similarly influenced by the authorised Bible, leading to the suffragette movement....
...Hence James Powell and his “human rights codswallop”: as a beneficiary in one of Octavia Hill’s model estates for working people, he felt he had entered into a contract, and his side of it included allowing...
...() Belt Up’s programme – which includes not just interpretations of classic texts, but also new creations and even a lovely children’s play, Octavia – reaches too wide to succeed on all fronts....
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