Spensers

Perhaps its a little known fact that the series was based on Earl Hamners semi autobiographical book Spensers Mountain.

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None of his recent Spensers have been as great at his best, but they're very good and if Yagoda had read Bad Business or Widow's Walk I don't think he'd be dismissing Parker so easily.

Be cool, get Shorty, find a victim, be a villain, look for Rachel Wallace, and say a deep blue goodbye 2004

I told him that that stranger was a follower of the Spensers '; he checked his unfinished benediction, and cursed him.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827 Various

When he returns victorious he ruthlessly sweeps aside all likely obstacles to his supremacy, the Spensers, Kent, and even the king being hurried to their death.

The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne

Goethe there is a new world set before his eyes; a world of Earnestness and Sport, of solemn cliff and gay plain; some such temple -- far inferior, as it may well be, in magnificence and beauty, but a temple of the same architecture -- some such temple for the Spirit of our age, as the Shakespeares and Spensers have raised for the Spirit of theirs.

English literary criticism Various

Not only those who, for all their denials -- denials that spring rather from ignorance than bad faith -- owe almost all they have to the inventor of Cubism, but artists who float so far out of the main stream as the Spensers and the Nashes, Mr. Lamb and Mr. John, would all have painted differently had Picasso never existed.

Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

The Spensers had to pay fourteen a week for their quarters -- and they were getting a real bargain, Mrs. Norris having a weakness for literature and art where they were respectable and paid regularly.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume II 1915

Not until Sperry had thoroughly qualified as a responsible person did Mrs. Norris accept his assurances as to the Spensers and consent to receive them.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume II 1915

On returning to London after a visit to the Spensers at Althorp in January, 1779, he was struck down by

The Drama Henry Brodribb Irving 1894

So one day she took some flowers and Victoria, her favorite doll, and boldly marched into the Spensers 'yard.

What Katy Did: A Story 1887