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Even Harriet could boldly write, `` I know not how it is ; ;
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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.
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.
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Suffrage activists, especially Harriet Burton Laidlaw and Rose Livingston, worked in New York City's Chinatown and in other cities to rescue young white and Chinese girls from forced prostitution, and helped pass the Mann Act to make interstate sex trafficking a federal crime.

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.
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.
Harriet, herself a victim of poison-pen letters ever since her trial, reluctantly agrees to help, and spends much of the next few months resident at the college, ostensibly to do research on Sheridan Le Fanu and assist a don with her book.
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 ).
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.

Harriet and relationship
He entered into a relationship with – and subsequently became engaged to – Camille Moke, despite the symphony being inspired by Berlioz's obsession with Harriet Smithson.
A few days after the performance, Berlioz and Harriet were finally introduced and entered into a relationship.
As the relationship between Harriet and Bill begins to evolve, all of Sparta wonders how a relationship like that could exist and be accepted in the South.
Harriet also makes a critical decision at this point: not to let Eugene influence her relationship with Bill anymore.
After nearly three decades on the Sparta police force, the city council decided not to renew Bill's contract because of his open relationship with Harriet DeLong.
A year later he proposed, and Harriet, outraged at being deceived into giving up her public honour, broke off the relationship.
The part about the Bohemian relationship between Harriet and Boyes was inspired by Dorothy L. Sayers ' fraught relationship with fellow-author John Cournos.
Sayers had charted the developing relationship between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane over four published novels, culminating in Busman's Honeymoon, the action of which takes place immediately following the couple's marriage.
Angered by his hypocrisy and aghast at being offered marriage as " a bad-conduct prize ", Harriet breaks off the relationship.
Her cousin Harriet ( by then Lady Granville ), with whom Lady Caroline's relationship had deteriorated after childhood, visited her in December 1816 and was so incredulous at her unrepentant behavior that she ended her description of the visit in a letter to her sister with: " I mean my visit to be annual.
; choreographer Lucinda Childs, writers María Irene Fornés and Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, other women, and with photographer Annie Leibovitz with whom Sontag later engaged in a committed relationship throughout her last years.
Badaraka and Judah did have a relationship of several years, and they had Harriet and a son together.
Harriet Cohen's recently published letters reveal the turbulence and anguish of the relationship.
After a date, Harriet feels uncomfortable with the relationship and leaves him, but soon her husband Ian dumps her for having the affair.
" Ozzie and Harriet " tells of a one-on-one faltering relationship, "" Tzena, Tzena " is sung in Yiddish.
During his Character Quest after the main story, his story revolves around his daughter Harriet, of who he has a rough relationship.

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