* 1895 – Harriet Cohen, British pianist ( d. 1967 )

* December 2 – Harriet Cohen, English pianist ( d. 1967 )

* November 13 – Harriet Cohen, English pianist ( b. 1895 )

As his Ireland — a haven and a retreat — was lost to bitter conflict and war, he sought refuge in a liaison with the younger pianist Harriet Cohen.

* December 2 – Harriet Cohen, pianist ( died 1967 )

Harriet Cohen bequeathed a large collection of paintings, some photographs and her gold bracelet to the Academy, with a request that the room in which the paintings were to be housed was named the " Arnold Bax Room ".

and more than thirty other annual awards in honour of, among others, Harriet Cohen, Harry Mortimer, John Christie, and Priaulx Rainier.

Harriet Cohen CBE ( 2 December 189513 November 1967 ) was a British pianist.

Harriet Cohen was born in London and studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music under Tobias Matthay, having won the Ada Lewis scholarship at the age of 12.

Harriet Cohen dedicated an important effort to the performance of the Tudor composers at a time when this was unusual, and gave recitals of works by William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons and also of Henry Purcell.

The Harriet Cohen International Music Award was introduced in her honour in 1951.

Harriet Cohen met the American journalist Dorothy Thompson in 1930 on her first tour of America, a tour which took in New York, Washington and the Library of Congress and Chicago, thus finally establishing a name for herself on the International stage.

In 1933 Harriet Cohen traveled to Vienna to play a number of concerts, staying with Dorothy Thompson.

Harriet Cohen had met Albert Einstein in Germany in 1929 when she had afternoon tea at his house.

In 1934, after Einstein moved to USA, Harriet Cohen did finally play that duet concert with Einstein to raise funds to bring Jewish scientists out of Nazi Germany.

Harriet Cohen believed passionately in a Jewish homeland but with justice to the Arab Palestinians.

These are just two quotes from the recently published love letters between Sir Arnold Bax and Harriet Cohen.

It was Arnold Bax who gave Harriet Cohen the name " Tania " for which she was affectionately known by close friends and family.

Harriet Cohen became close to MacDonald during the period when he was Prime Minister from 1929 – 1935, at a time of economic instability and depression which saw the rise of Nazism and Fascism in Europe.

Ralph Vaughan Williams was an intimate lifelong friend of Harriet Cohen.

Harriet Cohen first played for Edward Elgar in 1914 at a party when she was 18.

Harriet Cohen was portrayed in three novels.

D. H. Lawrence based the main character of Harriet in his novel Kangaroo on Cohen.

Rebecca West based the main character of Harriet in her novel Harriet Hume ( 1929 ) on Harriet Cohen.

Even Harriet could boldly write, `` I know not how it is ; ;

Week in, week out, there is more sex to be seen in `` The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet ''.

Writer Harriet Martineau, for example, wrote dubiously that, " the master presupposes his little pupils possessed of all truth ; and that his business is to bring it out into expression ".

Harriet Van Horne alleged that " he got where he is not by having a personality, but by having no personality.

Gaudy Night ( 1935 ) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the tenth in her popular series about aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third featuring crime writer Harriet Vane.

As she wrestles with the case, trying to narrow down the list of suspects and avert a major scandal, Harriet is forced to examine her ambivalent feelings about love and marriage, along with her attraction to academia as an intellectual ( and emotional ) refuge.

Harriet is forced to re-examine her relationship with Wimsey in the light of what she has discovered about herself.

There is an attempt to drive a vulnerable student to suicide, and a physical assault on Harriet that almost kills her.

The best-selling anti-slavery novel from the 19th century is Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852.

This part of his life remains hazy: it is hardly ever mentioned in the books set in the same period ; most of the scanty information on the subject is given in flashbacks from later times, after he met Harriet Vane and relations with other women became a closed chapter.

In " Strong Poison ", she is the first person other than Wimsey himself to realize that he has fallen in love with Harriet.

In Strong Poison Lord Peter encounters Harriet Vane, a cerebral, Oxford-educated mystery writer, while she is on trial for the murder of her former lover.

In Have His Carcase, he finds Harriet is not in London, but learns from a reporter that she has discovered a corpse while on a walking holiday on England's coast.

In the final Wimsey story, the 1942 short story " Talboys ", Peter and Harriet are enjoying rural domestic bliss with their three sons when Bredon, their first-born, is accused of the theft of prize peaches from the neighbour's tree.

In the original series, which ran on Radio 4 from 1973 – 83, no adaptation was made of the seminal Gaudy Night, perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter ; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and Joanna David.

Pirsig was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Maynard Pirsig and Harriet Marie Sjobeck, and is of German and Swedish descent.

He works for a while as a substitute teacher and comes to the town of Ames Crossing, where he meets a girl named Harriet Ames who is no taller than he is.

A president may also withdraw a nominee's name before the actual confirmation vote occurs, typically because it is clear that the Senate will reject them, most recently Harriet Miers in 2006.

* March 20 – Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published.

Tubman changed her name from Araminta to Harriet soon after her marriage, though the exact timing is unclear.

The character of Becky Sharp is based in part on Thackeray's maternal grandmother Harriet Becher.

Harriet O ' Brien feels this is enough to indicate that Harold died of natural causes, but not to determine the nature of the disease.

It became the best-selling American novel of the 19th century, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and is considered " the most influential Christian book of the ...