Fanny Blankers-Koen's last moment of glory came in 1999.

Fanny Mendelssohn, sister of Felix Mendelssohn, introduced the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach to Gounod, who came to revere Bach.

Pearson's mother, Fanny Pearson née Smith, came from a family of master mariners who sailed their own ships from Hull ; his father read law at Edinburgh and was a successful barrister and Queen's Counsel ( QC ).

She tells Fanny that when she " came out " in India, she found the whole thing very boring.

Fanny Cradock came to the attention of the public in the dowdy post-war years of the 1950s, championing the aspiring housewife, and an exotic approach to cooking.

Fanny was not reunited with her daughters until they each came of age at 21.

According to C. Bernard Ruffin, John and Mercy were possibly first cousins, however " by the time Fanny Crosby came to write her memoirs 1906, the fact that her mother and father were related ... had become a source of embarrassment, and she maintained that she did not know anything about his lineage ".

In July 1904, the matter was still not settled, however it came to an end before Fanny Crosby Day in March 1905, after Carleton's wife, Adora Niles Goodell Carleton, died suddenly.

After the Fassbinder adaptation Gouttes d ' eau sur pierres brûlantes ( 2000 ) came the movie which made his name outside France, 8 femmes, starring such icons of French cinema as Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant, Isabelle Huppert and Emmanuelle Béart.

When Warner was a young child, her mother died, and her father's sister Fanny came to live with the Warners.

One project that came to be known as ' Harvard Fanny Study ', for instance, involved measuring buttock spread and buttock-knee lengths in order to design more comfortable chairs for the Pennsylvania railroad.

He was the fifth child of the former Reichskommissar to German South-West Africa and German Consul General to Haiti, Heinrich Ernst Göring, and Franziska " Fanny " Tiefenbrunn ( 1859 — 15 July 1923 ), who came from a Bavarian peasant family.

The poem came to be forever associated with the " Bright Star " Fanny Brawne-with whom Keats became infatuated.

Soon after, Fanny grudgingly thanked her for not revealing that her fall from the mulberry tree came about because Fanny had pushed her.

But Jessamy managed to slip the penknife to Kitto, and the danger to Mrs Rumbold passed when Fanny came clean about why Jessamy was up the forbidden tree.

`` Fanny and Mrs. Godwin will probably be glad to hear that Mary has safely recovered from a very favorable confinement, and that her child is well ''.

* John Cleland's early erotic novel Fanny Hill ( 1748 ) is written as a series of letters from the titular character to an unnamed recipient.

She also had a half-brother, Robert ( 1802 – 64 ), and half-sister, Fanny ( 1805 – 82 ), from her father's previous marriage to Harriet Poynton (? 1780 – 1809 ).

In October he was too ill to take the President's chair and in November Fanny Burney recorded that " I had long languished to see that kindly zealous friend, but his ill health had intimidated me from making the attempt ": " He had a bandage over one eye, and the other shaded with a green half-bonnet.

His son, Hermann Christian Wittgenstein — who took the middle name " Christian " to distance himself from his Jewish background — married Fanny Figdor, also Jewish, who converted to Protestantism just before they married, and the couple founded a successful business trading in wool in Leipzig.

On his deathbed, Mr. Dashwood extracts a promise from his son, that he will take care of his half-sisters ; however, John's selfish and greedy wife, Fanny, soon persuades him to renege.

* In John Cleland's Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Fanny goes from poor orphaned country girl to wealthy skilled courtesan eventually finding her one true love and retiring to marriage.

The court decisions that legalised the publication of Fanny Hill had an even more important effect: freed from fears of legal action, nonfiction works about sex and sexuality started to appear more often.

Her mother Fanny separated from her father Henry in 1840, when Mary was five.

Soon Flo hires Fanny Brice ( playing herself ) away from vaudeville and gives stagehand Ray Bolger ( also playing himself ) his break as well.

Austen almost never refers to specific dates or historical events in her novels, but wartime England forms part of the general backdrop to several of them: in Pride and Prejudice ( 1813, but possibly written during the 1790s ), the local militia ( civilian volunteers ) has been called up for home defence and its officers play an important role in the plot ; in Mansfield Park ( 1814 ), Fanny Price's brother William is a midshipman ( officer in training ) in the Royal Navy ; and in Persuasion ( 1818 ), Frederic Wentworth and several other characters are naval officers recently returned from service.

There were parodies of popular British TV entertainers such as Eamonn Andrews (" Seamus Android ", played by Pertwee ), Simon Dee, Wilfred Pickles ( both played by Williams ), and " Daphne Whitethigh ", presumably based on journalist Katharine Whitehorn and played by Marsden, a development of Fanny Haddock, her Fanny Cradock take-off from Beyond Our Ken.

Six weeks before the Championships, Blankers-Koen gave birth to Fanny Junior, but this had not stopped her from resuming training shortly afterwards.

Hearing the loud noises coming from the second floor hallway, Fanny opened the door to see her brother slumped on the floor and a wide-eyed Powell charging directly towards her, a dagger in his hand.

In 1880, attorney Henry Tifft Gage, a transplant from Michigan, married one of Lugo ’ s great granddaughters, Francis " Fanny " Rains.

Part of the film's structure and background is borrowed from Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander.

Fanny shared the early musical education and upbringing of her younger brother Felix, including tuition from Carl Friedrich Zelter and others.

Grave of Fanny Hensel in BerlinFanny Hensel died in Berlin in 1847 of complications from a stroke suffered while rehearsing one of her brother's oratorios, The First Walpurgis Night.

In a letter from Rome, Fanny Mendelssohn described the process behind composing Das Jahr:

This led to a serious breach with other family members, notably his former Pre-Raphaelite colleague Thomas Woolner, who had once been in love with Fanny and had married Alice, the third sister of Fanny and Edith.

Most notably, Tibbett took over the Italian operatic bass Ezio Pinza's role in Fanny during its original Broadway run.

Most notably, they develop the British radical-democratic models of Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and Holcroft and combine these with elements of German " Schauer-romantik " gothic from Friedrich Schiller, the enlightened sentimental fictions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau or Laurence Sterne, women's domestic novels by writers such as Fanny Burney or Hannah Webster Foster, and other genres such as captivity narrative.

His father was a past president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and his mother was a hymn writer, credited with over 500 hymns, most notably " Blessed Assurance " with Fanny Crosby.

Both Ingmar Bergman ( notably with Fanny and Alexander but with other films as well ) and Lars von Trier have created long television films that they then recut for international distribution.

By extension, he revealed that she was born Fanny Grady and from a tempestuous family background.

While in Rome during the winter of 1820-21, Severn wrote numerous letters about Keats to their mutual friends in England, in particular William Haslam and Charles Armitage Brown, who then shared them with other members of the Keats circle, including the poet's fiancée, Fanny Brawne.

Around the imperturbable establishment figure of Horne the other performers played a gallery of grotesque characters, including the exaggeratedly upper class Rodney and Charles, the genteel pensioners Ambrose and Felicity, the cook Fanny Haddock, and the gardener Arthur Fallowfield.

In the early 1960s, he made eight films, including Can-Can in 1960 and Fanny the following year.

During the 1940s, Benny Bell recorded several " party records " that contained double entendre including " Everybody Wants My Fanny " where the lyrics state " Everybody wants to seize my fanny, everybody likes to squeeze my fanny, they do everything to please my fanny, still she loves no one but me ", where " Fanny " could be either a girl's name or a slang for someone's backside.

A few music and family-oriented theaters make their homes in Gatlinburg as well, including the Sweet Fanny Adams Theatre, which hosts a musical comedy.

There were many local pits including the Fanny, the Rose, and Rothwell Water Haigh.

* Ruth Hall ( 1854 ) by Fanny Fern ( Sarah Payson Willis ) describes Fern's own struggle to become a successful newspaper columnist, and puts her family ( including her brother, Nathaniel Parker Willis ) and two of her early editors in a most unflattering light.

Due to her husband's financial status, she was able to enter London society, as a result of which she met Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Bishop Thomas Percy, Oliver Goldsmith and other literary figures, including the young Fanny Burney, whom she took with her to Gay Street, Bath.

Their house was a weekly gathering point of the Berlin artists and scientists, including Abraham's children Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Fanny Mendelssohn, both outstanding musicians, and the painter Wilhelm Hensel ( Fanny's husband ).

There he wrote the poems inspired by Fanny ( Mme Laurent Lecoulteux ), including the exquisite Ode à Versailles.

Many of the top entertainers of the era ( including W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Josephine Baker, Fanny Brice, Ann Pennington, Bert Williams, Will Rogers, Ruth Etting, Ray Bolger, Helen Morgan, Marilyn Miller, Ed Wynn, Gilda Gray, Nora Bayes, Sophie Tucker, and others ) appeared in the shows.

Although many, including his wife Fanny, urged Chamberlain to resign, he was determined to serve through the end of the war.

Numerous books have been written about Fanny Kemble and her family, including Deirdre David's A Performed Life ( 2007 ) and Vanessa Dickerson's inclusion of Kemble in Dark Victorians ( 2008 ).

* A Wild Salience: the Writing of Rae Armantrout ( Burning Press, 2000 ; ISBN 1-58711-025-3 ) — featuring essays and poems on or inspired by her work including pieces by Robert Creeley, Susan Wheeler, Hank Lazer, Bob Perelman, Lydia Davis, Lyn Hejinian, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Ron Silliman, Brenda Hillman, Fanny Howe and others

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Imperial Russian Ballet soon rose to prominence and would employ some of the most influential and famous names in ballet history including Charles Didelot, Marie Taglioni, Christian Johansson, Enrico Cecchetti, Jules Perrot, Fanny Cerrito and Carlotta Grisi.

" As a staff writer on those programs, Oppenheimer wrote sketch comedy for many Hollywood stars, including Fred Allen, Talullah Bankhead, Charles Boyer, Fanny Brice, George Burns and Gracie Allen, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, and Spencer Tracy.

However, American Girls featured veterans of the all-women band scene including Brie Howard who had played drums for Fanny and Miiko Watanabe who played bass with the Screamin ' Sirens.

Comox town is located in the Comox Valley, along with several other communities, including Courtenay, Cumberland, and the unincorporated hamlets of Royston, Union Bay, Fanny Bay, Black Creek and Merville.

Since then he has presented television shows such as Win, Lose, or Draw, Pets Win Prizes and TV Heroes, which was a series of 10-minute homages to some of Baker's entertainment idols including Fanny Cradock, Peter Glaze ( from Crackerjack ) and the Top of the Pops audience.

Although, according to Schwanz: " Many of Fanny ’ s hymns emerged from her involvement in the city missions ", including " More Like Jesus " ( 1867 ); " Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour " ( 1868 ); and " Rescue the Perishing " ( 1869 ), which became the " theme song of the home missions movement ", and was " perhaps the most popular city mission song ", with its " wedding of personal piety and compassion for humanity ".

During the next three decades, Crosby would dedicate her time as " Aunty Fanny " to work at various city rescue missions, including the McAuley Water Street Mission, the Bowery Mission, the Howard Mission, the Cremore Mission, the Door of Hope, and other skid row missions.

After securing Crosby's permission to solicit funds for her benefit, in June 1904 the religious press ( including The Christian Advocate ), carried McCabe's request for money for Crosby under the heading " Fanny Crosby in Need ".