Her daughter, born from her head as she was from Zeus's, demigod Annabeth Chase is one of the principal characters.

Her story The Land of Far-Beyond is a Christian parable along the lines of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, with modern children as the central characters.

Her Shakespearean heroines-Beatrice, Portia, Desdemona and Ophelia – were no less successful than her comic characters – Miss Hoyden, Biddy Tipkin, Lucy Lockit and Miss Prue.

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

Her first publication was The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, whose characters were largely based on her experiences from childhood.

Her decision to marry Edgar Linton over Heathcliff has been seen as a surrender to culture, and has implications for all the characters of Wuthering Heights.

Her beauty is commented on by all the characters, though it appears to work against her.

Her characters were more likely to be observers and commentators.

Her use of repetition is ascribed to her search for descriptions of the " bottom nature " of her characters, such as in The Making of Americans where the narrator is described through the repetition of narrative phrases such as " As I was saying " and " There will be now a history of her.

Her film choices were often unconventional ; she sought roles as manipulators and killers in an era when actresses usually preferred to play sympathetic characters, and she excelled in them.

Her clothing is skimpier than usual, which resulted in her being considered one of the " hottest video game characters " by GameDaily.

Her salary is the subject of several jokes, as she and other characters frequently point out that she " earns next to nothing ".

Her distinctive voice has been supplied for animated characters, film narration and AOL's " You have email " notification in the UK.

" Her texts usually take place in the South and revolve around morally flawed characters, while the issue of race often appears in the background.

" Her TV roles include characters on The Simpsons, where she voices Agnes Skinner, Brandine Spuckler and Lindsey Naegle, and Futurama, in which her main role is the character Mom.

Her book, " Stories of a Sanctified town ", was so true to life that the residents of Robards recognized her characters in spite of changed names and combination of locales.

Her shooting by Beth juxtaposes the two characters, with Alex becoming the victim and Beth taking violent action to protect her family.

Her agony inspired Dumas fils to write about tragic female characters.

Her main characters are named after the middle names of her husband and children.

Her novels are often much darker than the film adaptation of Chocolat would lead us to suppose, and characters are often emotionally damaged or morally ambivalent.

Her books have a very strong sense of place, with settings that play as significant a role as do the characters themselves.

Her brother called what she wrote " filth " and her sister, with whom she was no longer on speaking terms, strongly objected to The Camomile Lawn, claiming that some of the characters were based on their parents.

Her first, The Comforters ( 1957 ), concerns a woman who becomes aware that she is a character in a novel ; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1961 ), at times takes the reader briefly into the distant future to see the various fates that befall its characters.

Her duties included proofreading, answering reader questions, provide proper pronunciation of certain words, translation of foreign phrases, identifying characters and defining words.

Her beauty and flirtatiousness made her a common target for male characters, although she usually proved capricious and elusive.

Her services to the School for many years were of a very high character, and I have often thought that one of the buildings should be named for her ''.

Her mother Cassiopeia boasted that her daughter was more beautiful than the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus and often seen accompanying Poseidon.

Her films of the early and mid 1950s were generally lightweight romantic dramas, some historical, in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often in varying states of undress.

Her attire often consisted of " thrift shop " babydoll dresses, and her face adorned with smeared makeup ; MTV reporter Kurt Loder described her as looking like " a debauched rag doll ".

Her role in his conversion is not considered now to be as important as it is often represented in medieval chronicles.

Her husband ran the business end of the company and she managed the artistic side, often starring in the productions.

Her personal letters to leaders of the Revolution influenced policy ; in addition, she often hosted political gatherings of the Brissotins, a political group which allowed women to join.

Her paintings are often of flower designs above shops and stores in her local urban area of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Her classical education left its mark ; Christopher Stray has observed that " George Eliot's novels draw heavily on Greek literature ( only one of her books can be printed correctly without the use of a Greek typeface ), and her themes are often influenced by Greek tragedy ".

Her frequent visits to the estate also allowed her to contrast the wealth in which the local landowner lived with the lives of the often much poorer people on the estate, and different lives lived in parallel would reappear in many of her works.

Her brother, Marx's uncle Benjamin Philips ( 1830-1900 ), was a wealthy banker and industrialist, upon whom Karl and Jenny Marx would later often come to rely for loans while they were exiled in London.

Her role often involves premonitions of a particular warrior's violent death, suggesting a link with the Banshee of later folklore.

Her wardrobe included red so often that the fire-engine shade became known as " Reagan red ".

Her parents earned little and there was often a shortage of food in the household.

Her writing often makes use of alien cultures to examine structural characteristics of human culture and society and their impact on the individual.

Her dominant role has often been confused or associated to that of a high priestess which she is not.

Her irreverent and often bawdy sense of humour allowed her to establish a rapport with her co-star Marlon Brando ; but she had difficulty with director Elia Kazan, who did not hold her in high regard as an actress.

Her work often utilizes classical music, jazz and contemporary pop music.

Her vocals and singing style has often been compared to the contemporary English singer Kate Bush.

Her habits were often parodied ( with relative affection ) by the satirical 1980s television programme Spitting Image – which portrayed her with a Birmingham accent ( modelled on actress Beryl Reid ) and an ever-present copy of the Racing Post.

Her daughter Charlotte was placed in the care of a governess, in a mansion near Montagu House in the summers, and Caroline visited her often.

Her practical importance in the group, however, was often overstated by the media, the most obvious example being the common name Baader-Meinhof gang for the RAF.

Her refusal to love him more than a husband is often interpreted as a resistance from incest, but Kahn also inserts the image of a rejecting mother.

Her children could be legitimized by their father's acknowledgment before witnesses and were often adopted.

Her methods are unconventional by kingdom standards, for example forgoing the use of leeches and instead using alcohol to " the ill humours which can infect a wound ," but are more often than not successful.