The decision of Female Gothic writers to supplement true supernatural horrors with explained cause and effect transforms romantic plots and Gothic tales into common life and writing.

Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances.

Female performers played both men and women in comic playlets about ordinary life.

Henry Fielding wrote a pamphlet titled The Female Husband in 1746, based on the life of Mary Hamilton, who married women on three separate occasions, and was sentenced to public whipping in four separate towns and six months in jail.

Category: Female life peers

Female mallard and ducklings – reproduction is essential for continuing life

Female life expectancy was 77. 41 years, in comparison to 70. 57 years for males.

Female members of the mendicant orders ( Dominican, Augustinian and Carmelite nuns and Poor Clares ) continued to observe the same enclosed life as members of the monastic orders.

At the 1987 Tejano Music Awards, Selena won Best Female Vocalist, an award she would dominate for the rest of her life.

Female fleas can lay 5000 or more eggs over their life, allowing for phenomenal growth rates.

In 1858, an institution of learning called the " Savannah Male and Female Academy " was started, which seemed to put new life into the town.

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The decade started with Rob Reiner's Misery ( 1990 ), based on the book by Stephen King, with Kathy Bates as an unbalanced fan named Annie who terrorizes, in her care, an incapacitated author named Paul ( James Caan ); in one horrifying scene, she ' hobbles ' his ankles so that he can't escape, a battered wife who left her sadistic husband to find a better life was vengefully pursued in Sleeping with the Enemy ( 1991 ), Curtis Hanson's The Hand That Rocks the Cradle ( 1992 ), with Rebecca De Mornay as a nanny intent on seeking revenge against her dead obstetrician husband's patient ( Annabella Sciorra ), Unlawful Entry ( 1992 ) with Ray Liotta as cop being obsessed with a woman he saved, Barbet Schroeder's suspenseful Single White Female ( 1992 ), with Bridget Fonda and her obsessed roommate-from-hell Jennifer Jason Leigh, Harold Becker's Malice ( 1993 ) with Alec Baldwin and Nicole Kidman, and lastly Anthony Minghella's psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley ( 1999 ) with Matt Damon being obsessed with, and then assuming the identity of, Jude Law.

Category: Female life peers

Category: Female life peers

Category: Female life peers

Category: Female life peers

Category: Female life peers

Category: Female life peers

Category: Female life peers

Category: Female life peers

Category: Female life peers

Category: Female life peers

Category: Female life peers

Females are olive above and yellowish below. Female Sunbird on Nectar Hunt, from Attappadi, Kerala

Category: Female authors who wrote under male or gender-neutral pseudonyms

Ariel Levy used the term in similar, but opposite sense in her book, Female Chauvinist Pigs, in which she argues that many young women in the United States and beyond are replicating male chauvinism and older misogynist stereotypes.

Category: Female authors who wrote under male or gender-neutral pseudonyms

Female houses differed from male Dominican houses in a lack of apostolic work for the women.

Category: Female authors who wrote under male or gender-neutral pseudonyms

Miriam Hanson, in “ Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification: Valentino and Female Spectatorship ” ( 1984 ) put forth the idea that women are also able to view male characters as erotic objects of desire.

Characteristic of the Female Gothic, the natural cause of terror is not the supernatural, but rather female disability and societal horrors: rape, incest and the threatening control of the male antagonist.

Category: Female authors who wrote under male or gender-neutral pseudonyms

Female Chinese and Syrian hamsters are known for being aggressive toward the male if kept together for too long after mating.

Female homosexuality has not received the same negative response from religious or criminal authorities as male homosexuality or adultery has throughout history.

Category: Female authors who wrote under male or gender-neutral pseudonyms

Female median age is estimated at 22. 5 years, and male median age at 20. 7 years.

Category: Female authors who wrote under male or gender-neutral pseudonyms

Female players often use lighter mallets than male players.

Female mating preferences are widely recognized as being responsible for the rapid and divergent evolution of male secondary sexual traits.

Female to male ratio is 4: 1.

** Female – S. pandora is the same size as the male in this stage.

Female plants, which produce the hops flowers used in brewing beer, often are propagated vegetatively and grown in the absence of male plants.

Female characters were generally distressed damsels to be rescued or protected, or otherwise served as an inducement or reward for a male hero's adventures.

Female volunteers traditionally wore pink-and-white jumpers, while male volunteers traditionally wore light-blue tunics or shirts over dark slacks.

Category: Female authors who wrote under male or gender-neutral pseudonyms

Female flowers produce 2-3 times more nectar than male flowers.

Female fireflies of the genus Photuris, for example, copy the light signals of other species, thereby attracting male fireflies which are then captured and eaten ( see aggressive mimicry ).

Female names end with-a, e. g. Dragan -> Dragana, though several male names exist that end with-a ( e. g. Andrija, Vanja, etc.

Female genitals are distinguished by a Y-shaped configuration formed from a vulvar flap ; while the male genitals may look similar with the penis and anus forming a like shape, the penis will protrude if pressure is applied to the surrounding hair.