Simone Prunier was restaurateur in Paris and London.
 The granddaughter of celebrated French restaurateur Alfred Prunier who opened the first Prunier fish restaurant in Paris in 1872.
 La Maison Prunier became famous for its fresh fish and shellfish, brought to the restaurant daily by train from the sea, a novelty at the time.
 Restaurant Prunier was frequented by "Le Beau Monde" of the time, from kings and queens to politicians, writers and actors.
 When Alfred Prunier died suddenly from the stress of running the business, his son Emile Prunier (Simone's father) took over and expanded and modernised, even starting caviar farming in France when supplies from Russia dried up after the revolution.
 He also died young and, in 1925, the then 22-year old Simone (henceforth known as 'Madame Prunier') took over the running of the business.
 She had married one of her father's most promising executives and, in 1934, with the rumblings of World War II on the horizon and their wealthy clientele not travelling to Paris any more, they decided to expand the business out of France and to open a new branch in London.
 Many of their English clients had asked them to do so for years.
 Prunier St James's quickly gained a reputation for its outstanding fish dishes under the formidable, beautiful and very young Madame Prunier.
 Edward Prince of Wales used to walk up from St James's Palace down the road to lunch there regularly (with Mrs Simpson).
 Her seminal book "A Classic Way with Fish" was written in London and first published in 1938.
 Rick Stein credits it as being "a very influential book in my early days of fish cookery"
Selma is a feminine name of uncertain origin.
 It could be a form of "Selima", which in turn is a name first recorded in a poem by Thomas Gray (died 1771).
 One possibility is that "Selima" was influenced by the Arabic name "Selim" meaning "peace".
 The Turkish name Selma is ultimately of Arabic origin.
 The use of "Selma" in Germany and Scandinavia stems from the Ossianic poetry of James Macpherson (died 1796), where it appears as a place name.
 Its specific popularity in Sweden is likely due to the Selma poems of Frans Michael Franzén (died 1847).
 It was later introduced into Denmark by Swedish immigrants, after which it likely became more common due to the works of the author Selma Lagerlöf (died 1940).
Arabella Fermor (1696–1737) was the daughter of a marriage between two Roman Catholic families in Protestant England, the Fermors of Oxfordshire and the Brownes of Berkshire.
 Her beauty was made famous by her starring role in Alexander Pope's famous poem The Rape of the Lock.
 After her beau Robert Petre brought about the dissolution of their engagement by stealing a lock of her hair (satirically related in the poem), Fermor married Francis Perkins of Ufton Court around 1715.
 She bore one daughter, Arabella, who died as a child, and five sons.
I heard a Fly buzz—when I died is the informal name for an untitled poem by American author Emily Dickinson.
 In the poem, the narrator is on his or her deathbed, describing the progression of the narrator's death.
"Beau", also known as "I’ll Never Forget a Dog Named Beau", is a poem written by American film and stage actor James Stewart.
 A humorous tribute to Stewart's deceased pet dog, the poem was first recited on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" in 1981, and later published in the 1989 collection "Jimmy Stewart and his Poems."
Héroïde funèbre , S. 102, is a symphonic poem written by Franz Liszt in 1850 and published in 1857 as No. 8.
 The work originated as the first movement of a planned "Revolutionary Symphony" inspired by the July Revolution.
 Liszt pays homage in this programmatic symphonic poem to the soldiers and men that died fighting in revolutionary efforts.
 The composition of this piece was started in 1830 as a brief sketch for a full symphony, but was dropped by Liszt in the continuing of other works.
 However, in 1848, there was an uprising in Liszt's home country of Hungary.
 One of Liszt's friends was killed during this revolution, which caused Liszt to revisit his now 20 year old sketch of the Revolutionary Symphony, shortening it and forming the first movement into the commemorative Héroïde funèbre.
 Liszt said of the program, "In these successive wars and carnages, sinister sports, whatever be the colours of the flags which rise proudly and boldly against each other, on both sides they float soaked with heroic blood and inexhaustible tears.
 It is for Art to throw her ennobling veil over the tomb of the brave, to encircle with her golden halo the dead and dying, that they may be the envy of the living."
Thomas Norton (c.1433-c.1513) was an English poet and alchemist.
 He is known as the author of the "Ordinal of Alchemy" (1477), an alchemical poem of around 3000 lines.
 According to Jonathan Hughes, Norton was born in Colne, Wiltshire.
 No modern town in Wiltshire is named Colne; perhaps, as Reidy reckons, Norton was born in Colerne, Wiltshire, because this fits the description in the poem of the youngest alchemist (most likely Norton) being born under a cross at the end of three shires.
 He became an alchemist in the 1450s, and was given the secret of the stone in 1461.
 Later that year he became an esquire of the body to Edward IV of England, receiving fifty marks a year, and in 1465 he was warden of Gloucester castle.
 He began the Ordinal in 1477.
James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart (May 20, 1908July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military officer who is among the most honored and popular stars in film history.
 A major Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player, Stewart was known for his distinctive drawl and down-to-earth persona, which helped him often portray American middle-class men struggling in crisis.
 Many of the films he starred in have become enduring classics.
Álvaro de Campos (] ) (October 15, 1890 – November 30, 1935) was one of the poet Fernando Pessoa's various heteronyms, widely known by his powerful and wrathful writing style.
 According to his author, this "alter ego" was born in Tavira, Portugal, studied mechanical engineering and finally graduated in ship engineering in Glasgow.
 After a journey in Ireland, Campos sailed to the Orient and wrote his poem "Opiario" in the Suez Canal "onboard".
 He worked in 'Barrow-on-Furness' (sic) (of which Pessoa wrote a poem about) and Newcastle-on-Tyne (1922).
 Unemployed, Campos returned to Lisbon in 1926 (he wrote then the poem "Lisbon Revisited"), where he lived ever since.
 He was born in October, 1890, but Pessoa didn't put an end to the life of Campos, so he should survided his author who died in November, 1935.
 Campos' works may be split in three phases: the decadentist phase, the futuristic phase and the decadent (sad) phase.
 He chose Whitman and Marinetti as masters, showing some similarities with their works, mainly in the second phase: hymns like ""Ode Triunfal"" and ""Ode Marítima"" praise the power of the rising technology, the strength of the machines, the dark side of the industrial civilization, and an enigmatic love for the machines.
 The first phase (marked by the poem «Opiário» shared some of its pessimism with Pessoa's friend Mário de Sá-Carneiro, one of his co-workers in "Orpheu" magazine.
 In the last phase, Pessoa drops the mask, and reveals through Campos all the emptiness and nostalgy that grew during his last years of life.
"In Flanders Fields" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae.
 He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres.
 According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it.
 "In Flanders Fields" was first published on December 8 of that year in the London magazine "Punch".

Question: The author of the poem "Beau" died in what year?
Answer: 1997