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Zangwill, Israel
Israel Zangwill was a British Jewish author. His father had emigrated from Lithuania and his mother was a Polish refugee. He grew up in London’s East End where he attended the Jew’s Free School. His talents soon came to the attention of his teachers, and when he was fourteen he began to teach younger pupils. When he was eighteen, after he had won a best comic story competition in a magazine, he go...
Literary figures
Syster Pelagia
Gender: Female
Around the year 1900 – according to author Boris Akunin (pseudonym för Grigory Chkhartishvili) – the nun, Sister Pelagia lived in a nunnery in the little Russian town of Zavolzhsk. She wore spectacles, was a bit clumsy and despite her red hair and her freckles it was easy to ignore her. But she was very intelligent and attentive, and solved some tricky crime cases to the great satisfaction of Bish...