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Ms O'Rourke also said that in some cases the boys had been asked to call Shiel "dad" or "uncle" in public so as not to arouse suspicion.
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He's to be called Shiel -- Shiel Crozier Bulrush, that's to be his name. "
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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He's to be called Shiel -- Shiel Crozier Bulrush, that's to be his name. "
You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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He's to be called Shiel -- Shiel Crozier Bulrush, that's to be his name. "
You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 3. Gilbert Parker 1897
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"My mates and I were discussing Chris Eubank's sartorial quirks and I wondered if there were any footballers who wore a monocle, either when playing or off the field?" writes Will Shiel Dods"Following on from your old football-inspired albums question, Iron Maiden's Somewhere in Time has reference to West Ham beating Arsenal 7-3 on the album cover," begins Paul Baker.
Which is the least successful testimonial match ever? | The Knowledge 2011
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SFS: I'm thinking of all the sf/f works that almost casually kill off the human race, going back to The Last Man by Mary Shelley (1826), The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel (1901), I Am Legend (1954), and any number of others.
Interview: James Morrow on 'Shambling Towards Hiroshima' 2009
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How Lily Shiel transformed herself into Sheilah Graham is a story my mother recounted in no less than eight published works of autobiography.
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Born Lily Shiel in England in 1904 to recent immigrants from the Ukraine, Sheilah Graham published seven works of autobiography, but as her daughter explained in this reminiscence, “she did not write about being Jewish”; and her children were teenagers before she told them the “real Sheilah Graham story” printed in a London tabloid. by Wendy Fairey
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It is revealing of the times that all six Shiel children adopted unmistakably “English” names: Heiman became Henry, Esther changed to Iris, Sarah became Sally, Meyer — the “bad” brother who had taken my mother on his thieving expeditions when she was small — took the name of Jack, Morris became Maurice, the owner of a successful ladies 'clothing shop.
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Lily Shiel (later Sheilah Graham), age 9, at the Jews Hospital and Orphan Asylum in London.
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