Proper noun
A surname.
A hamlet in Holme East Waver parish, Allerdale borough, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY1851).
A locality around Raby Castle in Raby with Keverstone parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1222).
A hamlet in the south of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3179).
A suburb of Sydney, in the City of Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgEllmann (1988:404) Peter Raby said these essentially English plays were well-pitched, "Wilde, with one eye on the dramatic genius of Ibsen, and the other on the commercial competition in London's West End, targeted his audience with adroit precision". Source: Internet
Jackson, R. "The Importance of Being Earnest" in Raby, P. (Ed.) (1997:161) During rehearsal Alexander requested that Wilde shorten the play from four acts to three, which the author did. Source: Internet
Jackson, R. "The Importance of Being Earnest" in Raby, P. (Ed.) (1997:165) Wilde's professional success was mirrored by an escalation in his feud with Queensberry. Source: Internet
Raby (1988:120) Many names and ideas in the play were borrowed from people or places the author had known; Lady Queensberry, Lord Alfred Douglas 's mother, for example, lived at Bracknell. Source: Internet
Raby (1997:109) By the end fact and fiction have melded together. Source: Internet
Raby (1997:111) Wilde claimed the plot was "an idea that is as old as the history of literature but to which I have given a new form". Source: Internet