Jefferson was one of eight children born to sharecroppers Alex and Clarissa Jefferson.

Clarissa Dickson Wright claims that it " came to Scotland in a longship from Scandinavia even before Scotland was a single nation.

Clarissa Harlowe " Clara " Barton ( December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912 ) was a pioneer American teacher, patent clerk, nurse, and humanitarian.

( After Probert leaves, Disraeli confesses to his wife and Clarissa that he was bluffing.

By 1748 his novel Clarissa was published in full: two volumes appeared in November 1747, two in April 1748, and three in December 1748.

The response to the novel was positive, and the public began to describe the title heroine as " divine Clarissa ".

Although Fielding was originally opposed to Richardson, Fielding supported the original volumes of Clarissa and thought a happy ending would be " poetical justice ".

Others wanted Lovelace to be reformed and for him and Clarissa to marry, but Richardson would not allow a " reformed rake " to be her husband, and was unwilling to change the ending.

Bizet resumed work on Clarissa Harlowe and Grisélidis, but plans for the latter to be staged at the Opéra-Comique fell through, and neither work was finished ; only fragments of their music survive.

Ayer was born and grew up in the area, as did Chef Clarissa Dickson Wright, and the former Wrights ' home is now home to supermodel Kate Moss.

He was the fifth of thirteen children born to John William Inness, a farmer, and his wife, Clarissa Baldwin.

ET with the launch of a primetime block called SNICK, which was home to shows such as Are You Afraid of the Dark ?, Clarissa Explains It All, Roundhouse, All That, The Amanda Show and Kenan & Kel ; in 2004, the block was reformatted as the Saturday edition of TEENick ( which originally debuted on Sunday evenings in 2000 ), and the Saturday night block continues today without an official block name ( though A Night of Premieres is occasionally used when two or more programs feature new episodes on that night ); the TEENick branding, with its spelling altered to TeenNick, has since been used on the Nickelodeon sister channel previously known as The N. In June 1993, Nickelodeon resumed its magazine brand, Nickelodeon Magazine.

One of his works was a translation of four parts of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa ; and translations of some of the then current English paraphrases on biblical books showed his sympathy with a school which attracted him by its freer air.

Christie's mother, Clarissa (" Clara ") Boehmer Miller ( 1854 – 1926 ), was a strong influence on her life and someone to whom Christie was extremely close, especially after the death of her father in 1901.

Jeanette " Jennie " Jerome was born in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn in 1854, the second of three daughters of financier, sportsman, and speculator Leonard Jerome and his wife Clarissa ( always called Clara ), daughter of Ambrose Hall, a landowner and sometime New York State Assemblyman.

Clarissa and Sam's relationship was a novelty on television at the time, due to few television series allowing a girl and a boy to be merely friends without romance blossoming.

Unique to the show was its representation of each episode's theme by showing Clarissa tackling the episode's issue through a fictional video game.

A pilot for a follow-up series, Clarissa Now, was shot for CBS in 1995, but was not picked up as one.

A line from the INXS song " Suicide Blonde " was sung by Ferguson while listening to headphones in the 1991 episode " Clarissa News Network ".

" It was released in 1994 and credited to " Clarissa and the Straightjackets.

Clarissa Explains It All was the second sitcom to premiere on Nickelodeon in 1991 after Hey Dude ended its run.

* 1815: Clarissa Danforth was ordained in New England.

The novel was generally well-received, but faced the possibility of a libel suit from Clarissa Graves, sister of Robert on whom Miss Bohun, one of the novel's characters, may have been based.

Janis and his first wife, June Dickson Wright ( sister of Clarissa Dickson Wright ), by whom he had a son, Stefan, were divorced in 1965 after eleven years of marriage.

Clarissa had a domineering mother, Altagracia ( played by Ana Luisa Agrelot, Jose Miguel Agrelot's sister, and a comedic actress in her own right ), who considered that her daughter was getting too old to get married.

His sister Clarissa married Anthony Eden in 1952-becoming Lady Eden in 1954 when he was made a Knight of the Garter, wife of the Prime Minister when Winston Churchill retired in 1955, and later the Countess of Avon in 1961 on his elevation to the peerage.

On the night of May 1, 1945 Curt shot his wife, children and himself in front of his father and sister Clarissa.

* Elizabeth W. Harries, " Fragments and Mastery: Dora and Clarissa ," Eighteenth-Century Fiction 5 ( April 1993 ): 217 – 38.

Frances W. Alger Custer was born to Samuel and Clarissa Hancock Alger on September 20, 1816, in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, the fourth of eleven children.

The heroine of Liar-Soft's 2008 visual novel Shikkoku no Sharnoth: What a Beautiful Tomorrow, Mary Clarissa Christie, is based on the real-life Christie.

In addition, a crucial element in polylogic epistolary novels like Clarissa, and Dangerous Liaisons is the dramatic device of ' discrepant awareness ': the simultaneous but separate correspondences of the heroines and the villains creating dramatic tension.

For instance the prolific Clarissa Ross and Marilyn Ross were pseudonyms for the male writer Dan Ross and Frank Belknap Long published Gothics under his wife's name, Lyda Belknap Long.

* For Guralnick, birthday bash starts the Elvis bandwagon rolling By Clarissa Sansone, March 2002.

Meanwhile, Lord Charles Deeford proposes to Lady Clarissa Pevensey.

Disraeli, seeing promise in the young man and wanting Clarissa to be happy, convinces Charles to come work for him, and tells him about the canal purchase.

When he decides to send an agent to the khedive immediately, Clarissa suggests he send Charles.

Charles persuades the khedive to accept Myers ' check in exchange for the shares, also proving his own worth to Clarissa.

With the help of his secretary, Clarissa Saunders ( Jean Arthur ), Smith comes up with a bill to authorize a federal government loan to buy some land in his home state for a national boys ' camp, to be paid back by youngsters across America.

Later film roles of note include those of suffragist Olive Chancellor in The Bostonians ( 1984, a fourth Best Actress Academy Award nomination ), transsexual tennis player Renée Richards in Second Serve ( 1986 ); Mrs. Wilcox in Howards End ( 1992, her sixth Academy Award nomination, this time in a supporting role ); crime boss Max in Mission: Impossible ( 1996, when discussing the role of Max, DePalma and Cruise thought it would be fun to cast an actor like Redgrave ; they then decided to go with the real thing ); Oscar Wilde ’ s mother in Wilde ( 1997 ); Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway ( 1997 ); and Dr. Sonia Wick in Girl, Interrupted ( 1999 ).

He continued to explain that he did not fully understand females until writing Clarissa, and these letters were only a beginning.

The only lasting effect from the paper would be the incorporation of Wharton's libertine characteristics in the character of Lovelace in Richardson's Clarissa, although Wharton would be only one of many models of libertine behaviour that Richardson would find in his life.

However, his condition did not stop him from continuing to release the final volumes Clarissa after November 1748.

The only major work that Richardson would write would be A Collection of the Moral and Instruction Sentiments, Maxims, Cautions, and Reflexions, contained in the Histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison.

They were sold in twenty-fourth shares, with shares in Clarissa bringing in 25 pounds each and those for Grandison bringing in 20 pounds each.

The characters of Pamela, Clarissa, and Grandison are revealed in a personal way, with the first two using the epistolary form for " dramatic " purposes, and the last for " celebratory " purposes.

When Richardson wrote Clarissa, he had more experience in the form and expanded the letter writing to four different correspondents, which created a complex system of characters encouraging each other to grow and develop over time.