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  • Henry C.yler Bunner was his full name, H.C. Bunner was the way he always signed his writings, and "Bunner" was his name to his friends, and even to his wife.

    Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

  • H.C. Bunner—the editor of Puck, a comic magazine that was America's answer to Britain's Punch—wrote a story called "The Suburbanite and His Golf," inspired by the daffy lingo and attire used on the links.

    What Links Wodehouse, Fleming and Updike? Eric Felten 2011

  • I always think if we ask for more what we have may be taken from us, Ann Eliza Bunner murmurs to her younger sister, Evelina.

    Helen Oyeyemi Helen Oyeyemi 2011

  • It's late-19th-century New York City and the Bunner sisters run a shop that does an uncertain trade in "artificial flowers, bands of scalloped flannel, wire hat-frames, and jars of home-made preserves."

    Helen Oyeyemi Helen Oyeyemi 2011

  • Thomas later was charged with killing Cora Perry, 79, in the unincorporated Lennox area in 1975 and with the 1976 Inglewood killings of Maybelle Hudson, 80, Miriam McKinley, 65, and Evalyn Bunner, 56.

    L.A.'s 'Westside Rapist' gets life for killings 2011

  • In addition to Bunner and Johnson, two other men were also arrested in the Flores killing.

    2 charged in fatal Md. robberies Allison Klein 2010

  • Bunner – known as Bunny – is later found dead from poisoning.

    Agatha Christie gets death cake tribute from Jane Asher 2010

  • "Bunner Sisters" is brutal and unflinching, a depiction of economic and spiritual poverty from which the only escape is death.

    Recent Reading Roundup 13 Abigail Nussbaum 2007

  • But the best story, to my mind, is "Bunner Sisters", an early and atypical work revolving around two impoverished spinster sisters, who eke out a modest, proscribed existence running a millinery store.

    Recent Reading Roundup 13 Abigail Nussbaum 2007

  • As I was adapting Wharton's novella Bunner Sisters (written in 1891, published in 1916) for the stage, I uncovered that missing link.

    Bunner & the Sisters Selman, Linda 2007

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