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Harriet and herself
Harriet is forced to re-examine her relationship with Wimsey in the light of what she has discovered about herself.
Other movie roles of the era include Lane Bellamy in Flamingo Road ( 1949 ); a role in the violent film noir The Damned Don't Cry ( 1950 ), and the title role of Harriet Craig ( 1950 ), a movie which she herself claimed during a David Frost interview, reflected her own brand of control freakery-a movie made at Columbia Pictures.
" Ole Golly replies that she had planned to leave soon because she believes Harriet is old enough to care for herself.
The two heroines, Belinda and Harriet Bede, are Barbara herself and her sister, Hilary.
Once at the inn, Sophia and Harriet share a bed as do the two maids, everyone being exhausted from their journey, and the landlord and his wife come to the conclusion that they are supporters of the rebel Charles Stuart, fleeing the Duke of Cumberland, and that Sophia is Jenny Cameron herself ( the daughter of a highland supporter of Charles ).
She makes her farewell, repeating their aunt's maxim to Harriet that ' whenever the matrimonial alliance is broke, and war declared between husband and wife, she can hardly make a disadvantageous peace for herself on any conditions ' but Mrs Fitzpatrick contemptuously dismisses this advice.
It was in this form that he criticized the " atheistic mesmerism " to which his sister Harriet had committed herself, and she never forgave his criticism.
She ruled herself out of the Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party, declaring her support for Harriet Harman, who was the successful candidate.
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 the years before the Civil War, Harriet Tubman, a runaway slave herself, freed more than 70 slaves over the course of 13 secret rescue missions to the South.
Harriet never fully recovered from son Rick's death and she herself died of congestive heart failure and emphysema in 1994.
The Furies capture Superman and take him to Apokolips, followed by Supergirl, who manages to trounce Lashina, Mad Harriet, Stompa, and Granny herself.
The leading characters, Harriet and Guy Pringle ( the latter a lecturer and a passionate communist ), are based on Manning herself and her husband R. D.
However, a character like Harriet is able to express herself fully, and it is possible that Grandison is prohibited from doing likewise because of his epistolary audience, the public.

Harriet and victim
The death has been made to look like suicide, but Wimsey and Harriet discover that he was the victim of an ingenious and complex murder plot.

Harriet and letters
* A translation of the letters of Gerbert ( 982 – 987 ) with introduction and notes, Harriet Pratt Lattin, tr., Columbus, OH, H. L. Hedrick, 1932.
He knew that Harriet had children and was living in Maryland, but she and Beverly stopped responding to his letters and they lost touch.
In May 2007, Harriet Swift, an anti-logging activist from New South Wales was convicted and reprimanded for contempt of Parliament, after she wrote fictitious press releases and letters purporting to be Federal MP Gary Nairn as an April Fools ' Day prank.
Another friend, Harriet Winslow Sewall, arranged Child's letters for publication after her death.
These are just two quotes from the recently published love letters between Sir Arnold Bax and Harriet Cohen.
Harriet Cohen's recently published letters reveal the turbulence and anguish of the relationship.
Harriet Cohen is highly likely to have been one of these, as various letters from her private collection and interviews suggest.
Friends comfortably furnished his cell, and he received letters and several hundred visitors including both Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman.
When the Dorchester County sheriff searched Green's house, he found the letters from Samuel Jr. naming Jackson and Bailey, two slaves who had escaped to Canada with Harriet Tubman.
) Martineau, Harriet: selected letters ( 1990 )

Harriet and ever
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 1944, the United States Maritime Commission launched the SS Harriet Tubman, its first Liberty ship ever named for a black woman.
After getting into trouble for some of her plans, Harriet tries to resume her friendship with Sport and Janie as if nothing had ever happened, but they both reject her.
In a funeral tribute to Roach, then-Lieutenant Governor of New York David Paterson compared the musician's courage to that of Paul Robeson, Harriet Tubman and Malcolm X, saying that " No one ever wrote a bad thing about Max Roach's music or his aura until 1960, when he and Charlie Mingus protested the practices of the Newport Jazz Festival.
He was an Oxfordshire County Councillor between 1973 and 1977, the youngest ever at the age of 21, and contested Southwark, Peckham in October 1982 at the Peckham by-election, 1982 which also brought Harriet Harman into public view.
They include mountain climbers ( Heidi Howkins, class of 1989, the only woman to lead expeditions to both Everest and K-2 ), authors ( such as Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, class of 1914, pen name Carolyn Keene ), astronomers ( including Annie Jump Cannon, class of 1884, who developed the well-known Harvard Classification of stars based upon temperature ), screenwriters, ( including Nora Ephron, class of 1962, famous for such films as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle ), journalists ( Linda Wertheimer, class of 1965, Lynn Sherr, class of 1963, Diane Sawyer, class of 1967, and Cokie Roberts, class of 1964, being a few notable examples ), entrepreneurs ( including Robin Chase, class of 1980, the co-founder of ZipCar ), mathematicians ( Winifred Edgerton Merrill, class of 1883, was the first woman to ever receive a PhD in mathematics ), judges ( including Jane Bolin, class of 1928, the first African-American woman to become a judge, and current federal appeals judges Reena Raggi, Amalya Kearse, and Susan P. Graber ).
Whether these ' outrigger novels ' will ever be published will ultimately be at the discretion of Harriet McDougal, the late Mr. Jordan's widow and former editor.
Darwin's brother Erasmus thought it " the most interesting book I have ever read " and sent a copy to his old flame Miss Harriet Martineau who, at 58, was still reviewing from her home in the Lake District.
Harriet ( turtle ) | Harriet, the second oldest tortoise ever authenticated, lived at Australia Zoo
As the reaction to Darwin's theory began following publication of The Origin of Species at the end of 1859, Erasmus thought it " the most interesting book I have ever read ", and sent a copy to his old flame Harriet Martineau who at 58 was still reviewing from her home in the Lake District.

Harriet and since
On 10 March 1923 he wrote a letter to his patron, Harriet Weaver: " Yesterday I wrote two pages — the first I have since the final Yes of Ulysses.
She has not participated in candidates ' debates since her 1987 race against Harriet Ross.
His mother was a relative of aviator Harriet Quimby ; some of her family had been in the U. S. since the 1600s.
Its first and only Member of Parliament,, is Harriet Harman, the Deputy Leader of the party and Shadow Culture Secretary, who had been the MP for the preceding constituency of Peckham since a by-election in 1982.
He has been married to Harriet Helberg ( née Birnbaum ) since April 6, 1975, and has 2 sons, Mason and actor Simon Helberg.

Harriet and her
At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:
In view of the success of her novels, particularly Jane Eyre, Charlotte was persuaded by her publisher to visit London occasionally, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in a more exalted social circle, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell, and acquainted with William Makepeace Thackeray and G. H. Lewes.
In these cases, the position has been filled by a female relative or friend of the president, such as Martha Jefferson Randolph during Jefferson's presidency, Emily Donelson and Sarah Yorke Jackson during Jackson's, Mary Elizabeth ( Taylor ) Bliss during Taylor's, Mary Harrison McKee during Harrison's presidency, upon her mother's death, and Harriet Lane during Buchanan's.
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.
The dons of Harriet Vane's alma mater, the all-female Shrewsbury College ( a thinly veiled take on Sayers ' own Somerville College ), have invited her back to attend the much anticipated annual ' Gaudy ' celebrations.
Desperate to avoid a possible murder in college, Harriet asks her old friend Wimsey to investigate.
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.
There is an attempt to drive a vulnerable student to suicide, and a physical assault on Harriet that almost kills her.
In the frame of the book's plot, Wimsey's diplomatic obligations serve as a plot device to keep him away from Britain, and leave Harriet on her own for most of the book, to try to resolve the mystery at Oxford without his help.
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 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.
Harriet Vane contacts him about a problem she has been asked to investigate in her college at Oxford ( Gaudy Night ).
The Wimseys honeymoon at Talboys, a house in east Hertfordshire near where Harriet had lived as a child, that Peter has bought for her as a wedding present.
She started her career as " Happy Hotpoint ", a tiny elf dancing on Hotpoint appliances in TV commercials during the 1950s series Ozzie and Harriet.
Friends and those close to her remarked that, while fashionable like Kennedy, she would be different than other first ladies ; close friend Harriet Deutsch was quoted as saying, " Nancy has her own imprint.
In Dorothy L. Sayers's novel Gaudy Night, set in 1935, the main character Harriet Vane, a crime fiction writer, covers her investigation on a mystery case at her fictional Oxford college, Shrewsbury, with research on Sheridan Le Fanu.
In 1854, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the chapter " Poor White Trash " in her book A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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