Merrick's

What in city founder George Merrick's name is going on at Coral Gables City Hall?

Sunday Reading 2009

And once, a glare of light, near the south bank, as they passed through the Toreno field, aroused brief debate as to whether it was the Toreno wells, or the bungalow on Merrick's banana plantation that flared so fiercely.

WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE 2010

Merrick, Merrick's voodoo incorporates Catholic saints and statues of the virgin -- it's in my blood, all of this, and there's no pun intended there.

Anne Rice - An interview with author 2010

Merrick's fingers were thick and calloused, which she hadn't expected.

The Sin Eater 2010

They were introduced by Frederick Treves, Merrick's doctor and benefactor, who thought that Merrick needed to meet a woman who wouldn't be terrified at the sight of him, and judged Leila Maturin as having the requisite strength of character.

Leila Maturin gets even cooler hradzka 2010

Merrick was deeply proud of his left arm, which had been untouched by his disorders; perhaps his mother similarly took comfort in her other son William, who, unlike his siblings, was normal -- validation for her, as Merrick's mother was for him, that if not something she felt was beautiful she was at least kin to it.

APED: "not quite a ballade for joseph merrick" hradzka 2009

In particular, Treves seems never to have known of Merrick's sister Marian Eliza, who was still living at the time Treves became Merrick's benefactor.

APED: "not quite a ballade for joseph merrick" hradzka 2009

The primary does not go into details, and because they never came to Treves's attention nothing is known about their disabilities: not their nature, or manifestations, or what limitations they faced, or if their disabilities bore some slight resemblance to Merrick's own.

APED: "not quite a ballade for joseph merrick" hradzka 2009

Lynne is always a good reader in public; about a year ago I heard her in Bryant Park, along with other contributors to Elizabeth Merrick's anthology This Is Not Chick Lit, and Lynne's reading was equally powerful.

Wednesday Night at Tompkins Square Park: Ed Park, Lynne Tillman & Lore Segal for 100 issues of BOMB Magazine 2007

In the days of preparation leading up to Christmas 1870, the Merrick's second son, little William Arthur, nearly five years old, fell dangerously ill with scarlet fever.

APED: "not quite a ballade for joseph merrick" hradzka 2009