- by the pen name
Robert Tressell, was an
Irish writer best
known for his
novel The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists.
Tressell spent his
early adult working...
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wrote the book in his
spare time
under the pen name
Robert Tressell.
Published after Tressell's death from
tuberculosis in the
Liverpool Royal Infirmary...
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Tressell may
refer to:
Robert Tressell, a
British writer Tressell Ward, a
local government ward in Hastings, East Sus****,
named after the
writer Tressel...
- The
nickname 'Nimrod' was used
mockingly in the 1914
novel by
Robert Tressell in The
Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. The
sarcastic moniker was used...
- also
known as
Robert Tressell, who fell ill and died in
Liverpool while waiting for a ship to
emigrate to America. In 2019,
Tressell was
commemorated with...
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American people. The
Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914) by
Robert Tressell is an
explicitly political work,
widely regarded as a
classic of working-class...
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Perfume by
Patrick Süskind The Ragged-Trousered
Philanthropists by
Robert Tressell Night Watch by
Terry Pratchett Matilda by
Roald Dahl
Bridget Jones's Diary...
- 44. 1906: Paul
Laurence Dunbar –
American poet, aged 33. 1911:
Robert Tressell –
Irish writer, aged 40. 1918:
Gavrilo Princip –
Bosnian Serb ********in...
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important twentieth-century
British working class novelists and novels:
Robert Tressell, The Ragged-Trousered
Philanthropists (1914);
James C. Welsh, The Underworld...
- Statesman, Marc
Burrows hypothesized Pratchett drew
inspiration from
Robert Tressell's 1914
novel The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. In the book
Fashion in...
