“Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business”
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Hector Hugh Munro, popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and culture. He is considered to be a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced…
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culture · British writer (1870–1916) · writer · historian · novelist · playwright · journalist · also Saki, Hector Hugh Munro, H. H. Munro
Born 18 December 1870 · Died 13 November 1916 · Q311526
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2026· 2 entries
“Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse That Helped”
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2023· 1 entry
Bruce Gaston rediscovered a Clovis sketch, "The Romance of Business", published as part of an advertisement for Selfridge's in a 1914 issue of the Daily News and Leader
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2021· 1 entry
Lora Sifurova, looking through the Morning Post and other London periodicals in Russian archives, rediscovered seven sketches and stories attributed to Munro or Saki
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.
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2007· 1 entry
Starring Ben Daniels and Gemma Jones, showcased three of Saki's short stories, "The Storyteller", "The Lumber Room" and "Sredni Vashtar"
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2003· 1 entry
English Heritage marked Munro's flat at 97 Mortimer Street, in Fitzrovia with a blue plaque
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively.
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1916· 1 entry
Died 1916-11-13.
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1911· 1 entry
“Mrs. Pendercoet's Lost Identity”
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1910· 1 entry
The Chronicles of Clovis was published in 1911, and Beasts and Super-Beasts in 1914, along with other short stories that appeared in newspapers not published in collections in his lifetime
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1908· 1 entry
Where "the agreeable life of a man of letters with a brilliant reputation awaited him"
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1904· 1 entry
The stories having first appeared in The Westminster Gazette, and all this time he was writing sketches for The Morning Post, the Bystander and The Westminster Gazette
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1902· 1 entry
Moved to The Morning Post, described as one of the "organs of intransigence" by Stephen Koss, to work as a foreign correspondent, first in the Balkans, and then in Russia, where he was witness to the 1905 revolution i
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1900· 2 entries
With a collaboration with Francis Carruthers Gould entitled "Alice in Westminster"
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Under his real name, but proved to be something of a false start
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1899· 1 entry
(Munro's sketch "The Achievement of the Cat" had appeared the day before in The Westminster Budget
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1896· 1 entry
Decided to move to London to make a living as a writer
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1893· 1 entry
Into the Indian Imperial Police and was posted to Burma, but successive bouts of fever caused his return home after only fifteen months
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1887· 1 entry
After his retirement, his father returned from Burma and embarked upon a series of European travels with Hector and his siblings
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1872· 1 entry
On a home visit to England, Mary Munro was charged by a cow, and the shock caused her to miscarry
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1870· 1 entry
Born 1870-12-18.
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