This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

In recent years Anna Xydis has played with the New York Philharmonic and at Lewisohn Stadium, but her program last night at Town Hall was the Greek-born pianist's first New York recital since 1948.

It was there that their first child, a daughter they named Anna Bronson Alcott, was born on March 16, 1831, after 36 hours of labor.

Bronson described her as " a very fine healthful child, much more so than Anna was at birth.

He was born into a family of writers, the best known of whom was his paternal aunt, Anna Letitia Barbauld, a woman of letters who wrote poetry and essays as well as early children's literature.

Alexios was the son of Ioannis Komnenos and Anna Dalassena, and the nephew of Isaac I Komnenos ( emperor 1057 – 1059 ).

The mother of Alexios, Anna Dalassena, was to play a prominent role in this coup d ' état of 1081, along with the current empress, Maria of Alania.

The real driving force behind this political alliance was Anna Dalassene.

Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.

This request was granted and Anna then manifested her true theatrical and manipulative capabilities:

Straboromanos tried to give her his cross, but for Anna this was not sufficiently large enough so that all bystanders could witness the oath.

Anna was highly successful in three important aspects of the revolt: she bought time for her sons to steal imperial horses from the stables and escape the city, she distracted the emperor and gave her sons time to gather and arm their troops and she gave a false sense of security to Botaneiates that there was no real treasonous coup against him.

Alexios was for many years under the strong influence of an eminence grise, his mother Anna Dalassene, a wise and immensely able politician whom, in a uniquely irregular fashion, he had crowned as Augusta instead of the rightful claimant to the title, his wife Irene Doukaina.

Dalassena was the effective administrator of the Empire during Alexios ' long absences in military campaigns: she was constantly at odds with her daughter-in-law and had assumed total responsibility for the upbringing and education of her granddaughter Anna Komnene.

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

While the early explorers used horses to cross the outback, the first woman to make the journey riding a horse was Anna Hingley, who rode from Broome to Cairns in 2006.

He was a son of Albert of Prussia and Anna Marie of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Maria was a daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary.

Charles Henry Alston was born on November 28, 1907 in Charlotte, North Carolina to Reverend Primus Priss Alston and Anna Elizabeth Miller Alston, and was the youngest of five children.

She was a daughter of Henry V of Iron, Duke of Żagań and Anna of Mazovia.

In 1855 he married Anna Shaw, daughter of abolitionist Francis Shaw and sister of Robert Gould Shaw of the famed 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

Anna Haining Bates, born Anna Haining Swan ( August 6, 1846 – August 5, 1888 ), was a Canadian from Mill Brook, New Annan, ( near present-day Tatamagouche ), Colchester County, Nova Scotia, famed for her great height, believed to be 2. 27 m ( 7 ' 5½ ") at the peak of her stature.

It attracted some notable female converts such as the famed poet and scholar, Anna Maria van Schurman, and the entomological artist

He and his wife, Audella Beebe, were the parents of famed sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington ; their other children were Harriet Randolph Hyatt Mayor, who was also a sculptor though less well known, ( and mother of the art historian A. Hyatt Mayor ), and Alpheus Hyatt III.

Her work as a feminist is much debated ; Anna Maria Lenngren is famed for her great love for irony, which have made people unsure about how to understand what it was she really meant.

Barshai was born in Moscow, Russia, a son of a famed musician, Rudolf Barshai and Anna Martinson, daughter of a famed Russian Comic Sergey Martinson, but emigrated to the West in 1972.

In 1907-1918, he was married to actress Olga Glebova ( 1885 – 1945 ), one of the famed beauties of St Petersburg and the closest friend of Anna Akhmatova.

* 1890 – Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.

She purchased a house for her sister Anna which had been the last home of Henry David Thoreau, now known as the Thoreau-Alcott House.

However, he did win Best Foreign Film for Anna Karenina starring Garbo at the 1935 Venice International Film Festival.

* Anna Christie ( 1930 )-Academy Award nomination for Best Director ( see NOTE below )

William Wright had met and married Anna Lloyd Jones ( 1838 / 39 – 1923 ), a county school teacher, the previous year when he was employed as the superintendent of schools for Richland County.

A trained teacher, Anna was excited by the program and bought a set of blocks for her family.

Anna had been unhappy for some time with William's inability to provide for his family and asked him to leave.

The divorce was finalized in 1885 after William sued Anna for lack of physical affection.

She was the first actress to win an Academy Award for a performance in any foreign language, and the second Italian leading lady Oscar-winner ( after Anna Magnani ).

* Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund Freud, famous for contributions to child psychology and developmental psychology

( She lost to Anna Paquin for The Piano.

Anna Murray-Douglass, Douglass ' wife for 44 years

Anna Murray-Douglass died in 1882, leaving him with a sense of great loss and depression for a time.

Les Girls ( 1957 ) won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and Wild Is the Wind ( 1957 ) earned Oscar nominations for Anna Magnani and Anthony Quinn, but neither Heller in Pink Tights nor Let's Make Love ( both 1960 ) were box office hits.

When doctors could not help Alexei, the Tsarina looked everywhere for help, ultimately turning to her best friend, Anna Vyrubova, to secure the help of the charismatic peasant healer Rasputin in 1905.

Peter I was succeeded by his second wife ( Catherine I, 1725 – 1728 ) who was merely a figure-head for a powerful group of high officials, then by his minor grandson ( Peter II, 1728 – 1730 ), then by his niece, Anna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V. In 1741 Elizabeth, daughter of Peter, seized the throne, assisted by the Preobrazhensky Regiment.

Some parties openly profess their focus on a particular group ; for example, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's focus on the Dravidian population, and the Shiv Sena's pro-Marathi agenda.