All Saints Parish Church -
Almond, David -
Amnesty International -
Anatol, Giselle Liza -
Arantes, Jorge -
Arbroath -
Austen, Jane
All Saints Parish Church
On 14 March 1965, Peter James Rowling and
Anne Volant were married at
All Saints Parish Church at Dalmeny Road & Tytherton Road in the
Tufnell Park vicinity of greater
London, near where Stan and
Frieda Volant lived on
Fairmead Road. Built in 1886, All Saints was bombed during World War II in
1944, restored in 1953, then deconsecrated and turned into flats in the mid
1980s. See
http://uk.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?scale=10000&GridE=529600&GridN=186100&db=grid
for a map of the church's former location.
Almond, David
British author often cited by JKR when she is asked what other books she
might recommend to readers. She particularly liked his book
Skellig. His more recent book,
The Fire-Eaters, won the
Nestle Smarties Prize Gold Award for
2003 and the Whitbread Children's Book
of the Year Award 2003, both awards previously won by Rowling. The
author's website at www.davidalmond.com has extensive
information about his life and work.
Amnesty International
JKR worked for Amnesty International in London
shortly after leaving
Exeter University. She spent
her two years there researching human rights abuses in French-speaking Africa.
Anatol, Giselle Liza
Editor of Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays
(Praeger Publishers, May 2003), Anatol is an Assistant Professor of English
at the University of Kansas. Dr. Anatol was one of the panelists for the
"Publishing on Potter: Dodging the Bludgers" panel discussion at
Nimbus - 2003.
Further information about Dr. Anatol can be found at:
http://www.ku.edu/~english/faculty_list.htm
Arantes, Jorge
JKR married Jorge Arantes on 16 October 1992 in
Porto, Portugal. JKR accepted a job
teaching English in Porto in late 1991,
and she met Jorge Arantes in a bar (Meia Cava) in March 1992. Their daughter
Jessica Isabel Arantes was born
27 July 1993 in Porto. Their relationship
was characterized by quarreling and discord, and after Arantes kicked her
out of their house, Rowling returned to the United Kingdom with her infant
daughter Jessica. She settled in
Edinburgh, near her sister Di, in
November 1993. The divorce between JKR and Arantes was finalized on
26 June 1995
(SS_JKRB).
Arbroath
Peter Rowling and
Anne Volant met on a train
from King's Cross Station in London
en route to a military posting in Arbroath, Scotland in 1964. A very old
port city, Arbroath is perhaps most well-known for being the site of the
Declaration of Arbroath on 6 April 1320. From the Arbroath Abbey (founded
by 1174), a group of supporters of Robert the Bruce petitioned Pope John
XII to pressure English King Edward II to recognize Robert the Bruce as
the legitimate King of Scotland. Arbroath is a trading port and has long
had a thriving fishing industry. See also
Arbroath.
Austen, Jane
JKR frequently cites novelist Jane Austen as her favorite author of all
time (AOK1).
Emma is Rowling's particular
favorite, and she has said that it is a tightly-crafted mystery. Austen
(1775-1817) is best known for novels:
Sense and Sensibility (1811),
Pride and Prejudice (1813),
Mansfield Park (1814),
Emma (1815),
Persuasion (1817), and
Northanger Abbey (1817).
A good starting point for beginning Austen fans might be
www.austen.com.
The 1995 film adaptation of
Sense and Sensibility featured
several actors who went on to play various roles in the
Harry Potter films, including:
Emma Thompson
(who also wrote the screenplay),
Alan Rickman,
Gemma Jones, and
Robert Hardy.
See also: Mrs. Norris
