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O'Brien, Maureen
Maureen O’Brien is an English actress and author from Merseyside, United Kingdom. She was born in Liverpool, where she later attended the Notre Dame School at Mount Pleasant, and she grew up in Kirkby. O’Brien is the sister of the actress Eileen O’Brien. In 1961, she moved to London where she attended the Central School of Speech and Drama and graduated with a teacher’s degree in 1964. The same ye...
Literary figures
A.J. Raffles
Gender: Male
He is an expert in two areas – cricket and theft. A.J. (as he is usually called) Raffles is the most famous literary master thief of all time, and to this day people speak of a “Raffles heist” when someone commits a rare and sophisticated theft. He is a man of the world, skilled at disguise, and he moves in the best circles. However, E.W. Hornung finally lets him die a hero’s death in the Boer War...