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"The Different Widows is a 1703 comedy play by the British writer Mary Pix.Nicoll p.350 It premiered at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London. The original cast included George Powell as Sir James Belmont, John Corey as Careless, George Pack as Sir Anthony Loveman, Francis Leigh as Dandle, Barton Booth as Valentine, Elinor Leigh as Widow Bellmont, Mary Porter as Lady Loveman, Elizabeth Willis as Lady Courtall and Lucretia Bradshaw as Mariana. References Bibliography * Burling, William J. A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1992. * Nicoll, Allardyce. History of English Drama, 1660-1900, Volume 2. Cambridge University Press, 2009. Category:1703 plays Category:English plays Category:West End plays Category:Comedy plays Category:Plays by Mary Pix "
"The 48 Group Club (originally, the 48 Group of British Traders with China) is a London-based nonprofit organisation dedicated to promoting trade between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the United Kingdom. The group is named after a British trade delegation of 48 businessmen, referred to as the "Icebreakers," who traveled to China in 1954 to establish trading relations between the two countries. The organisation's motto, "Equality and Mutual Benefit," is derived from a quote by Zhou Enlai, the first Premier of the People's Republic of China. Critics have contended that the organisation has functioned as a platform for Chinese government influence with British elites. Fellows of the 48 Group Club have included Tony Blair, Jack Straw, Alex Salmond, Peter Mandelson, Ken Livingstone, and other politicians, retired diplomats, and prominent business executives. The 48 Group Club's chairman, Stephen Perry, has been a proponent of the Belt and Road Initiative. In February 2020, Perry commented positively on the PRC's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and stated that the Chinese government showed "incredible sensitivity to the needs of the people." Criticism In Hidden Hand: Exposing How The Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping The World, authors Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg stated: = Libel lawsuit = In June 2020, the 48 Group Club and its chairman Stephen Perry launched a libel lawsuit in an attempt to block the publication of the book in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. See also * Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding * Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries References External links * Category:Foreign policy and strategy think tanks based in the United Kingdom Category:Political and economic think tanks based in the United Kingdom Category:1954 establishments in the United Kingdom Category:Organizations established in 1954 Category:China–United Kingdom relations Category:United Kingdom friendship associations Category:People's Republic of China friendship associations "
"Emma Becker (2006) Emma Becker ( born 14 December 1988 in Île-de-France as Emma Durand) is a French writer living in Berlin. Her pen name Becker is derived from Pannebecker, the family name of her German grandmother. Biography Becker grew up in a middle class family in Île-de-France (greater Paris region). Her father was an entrepreneur and her mother a psychologist. She attended a catholic high school (lycée Montalembert), which she completed with the Baccalauréat (high school diploma) in 2006. Afterwards she studied literature at the New Sorbonne University (Sorbonne Nouvelle). In 2011 she published her first book, an erotic novel with the title Mr.. It describes the relationship of young female student and an older married man based her own experiences. After a failed relationship Becker left Paris to move with her child to Berlin, where her grandmother lived. In Berlin after the publication of her second book, she became interested in writing about prostitution and in an effort to immerse herself into that world she worked for two years as a prostitute in two local brothels. She described her experiences later in the autofiction novel La Maison, which was published in 2019.Marie-Dominique Lelièvre: EMMA BECKER, ELLE A JOUÉ AU DOCTEUR. Liberation, 24 January 2011 (French) Franziska Wolffheim: So antörnend wie eine kaputte Neonröhre. Spiegel.de, 21 September 2020 (German) Books *Mr.. Editions Denoël, 2011, *: English edition: Monsieur. Arcade Publishing, 2012, translated by Maxim Jakubowski *Alice. Editions Denoël, 2015, *La Maison. Editions Flammarion, 2019, External links *Monsieur: An Erotic Novel - Review in Publisher's Weekly *Life as a prostitute: Author Emma Becker on working in a brothel to research novel. France 24, 14 October 2019 (video, 8:19 mins) *Emma Becker : "Le sexe est le dernier bastion d'apolitisme dans l'existence". France culture, 15 September 2019 References Category:1988 births Category:Living people Category:Female sex workers Category:Pseudonymous writers Category:Pseudonymous women writers Category:21st-century French novelists Category:21st-century French women writers Category:French women novelists "