The Life And Music Of Charles Dickens s The Great...

Their father Thomas was born in Maidstone, Kent England. Kent is the origin of the Tolhurst name which likely means a thick, dense forest. It is an uncommon name being less than 1 in 100,000 in North America. On January 18, 1879, Thomas (b 1851, Maidstone, England) and Mary Elizabeth (b 1856, Ontario, nà ©e Cudmore) Tolhurst had their first of 6 daughters, Francis Elizabeth or Fanny after her paternal grandmother and mother. Over the next 141⠁„2 years the east-end Toronto bookkeeper and his wife had another 6 children only one being a boy: Emily Cudmore, Helen Beatrice, Annie Gertrude, Thomas George (b 1886), Amy Gladys and Eveline Winifred. Fanny was destined to never marry, becoming a well respected and well known drama and music teacher in Toronto producing, in over 50 years, many plays of Shakespeare s, Noà «l Coward, Shelly etc by the Toronto Student Players, various Church companies and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Emily, a tailoress, was destined to marry (to Samuel Douglas Deans in 1911 and having three boys, Samuel (b 1912), Alfred (b 1914) and Harold (b 1918)) as well as the third Tolhurst daughter Helen or Bertie, a church stenographer (to salesman Arthur Holman in 1916 and having two sons William (b 1917) and Alan (b 1922)). The fourth Tolhurst girl Annie, a milliner, died, before the Christmas of 1916, at the age of only 32, likely from consumption or tuberculous. Thomas and Elizabeth s fifth child was the break from having girls with Thomas.Show MoreRelatedANALIZ TEXT INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS28843 Words   |  116 Pagesthe text reveals under close examination. Any literary work is unique. It is created by the author in accordance with his vision and is permeated with his idea of the world. The reader’s interpretation is also highly individual and depends to a great extent on his knowledge and personal experience. That’s why one cannot lay down a fixed â€Å"model† for a piece of critical appreciation. Nevertheless, one can give information and suggestions that may prove helpful. PLOT The Elements of Plot When we