Her sister claimed the crown, but Sigismund retained it without much difficulty.

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 unofficial status and the unequal payments offered to black soldiers caused great difficulty in documenting her service, and the U. S. government was slow in recognizing its debt to her.

Her weak ankles led to difficulty while performing as the fairy Candide in Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty, leading the ballerina to revise the fairy's jumps en pointe, much to the surprise of the Ballet Master.

Her autobiographical first novel Ryder would not only present readers with the difficulty of deciphering its shifting literary styles — a technique inspired by Ulysses — but also with the challenge of piecing together the history of an unconventional polygamous household, far removed from most readers ' expectations and experience.

Her last years were spent in financial difficulty and physical decline.

Her writing impairment consisted of difficulty remembering motor movements associated with the letters she was supposed to write.

Her instincts about the musical were wrong ; audiences had difficulty accepting her as an avaricious woman who double-crosses her lover, and it ran for only 68 performances.

Her husband, having difficulty making money as a painter, left her again in 1849 to join the California Gold Rush.

Her attempts to build the library ’ s Braille collection were frustrated by the high price of the books and the difficulty of transporting them, but by 1928 the Library had a collection of six thousand Braille texts.

Her life, meanwhile, had been decidedly irregular, even if not to the degree indicated by the libellous pamphlet Histoire de la demoiselle Cronel ', dite Frétillon, actrice de la Comédie de Rouen, écrite par elle-mme ( The Hague, 1746 ), or to be inferred from the disingenuousness of her own Mémoires d ' Hippolyte Clairon ( 1798 ); and she had great difficulty in obtaining an order to make her debut at the Comédie-Française.

Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.

Her face was pale but set and her dark eyes smoldered with blame for Ben.

Her miraculous progress in material achievements flows from other qualities far more worthy and substantial: adherence to principles and methods consonant with our religious philosophy ; ;

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.

Her voice shook with feeling, and he thought it lovely.

Her father, James Upton, was the Upton mentioned by Hawthorne in the famous introduction to the Scarlet Letter as one of those who came into the old custom house to do business with him as the surveyor of the port.

Her education in the United States, not just in a classroom, but also in an American house with an American housekeeper, stands her in good stead.

Her eyes were bright with anticipation.

Her fiance, who is with a publishing firm, translates many books from English into Italian.

Her husband, who was sentenced to 15 years in the federal prison at McNeil Island last April for robbery of the Hillsdale branch of Multnomah Bank, also was charged with the store holdup.

Her acting began with the Birmingham Repertory Company and she soon became the toast of the West End.

Her words remained with him, worrying him for hours.

Her little brown face wrinkled up, her brown eyes gleamed, and with her little gestures she said all the courteous things.

Her face turned pink with pleasure and a smothered cough.

Her first class wasn't until ten, but she always got up to have breakfast with me.

Her little speech was totally out of character with the sort of person I thought she was.

Her friends and professional associates would sympathize with her, not because she had lost a beloved husband, but because she had been married to a man who thought unrealistically.

Her whole body is made of highly advanced synthetic jelly silicon and with 60 artificial joints in her face, neck, and lower body ; she is able to demonstrate realistic facial expressions and sing while simultaneously dancing.

Her unhappiness with her marriage caused Aphrodite to seek out companionship from others, most frequently Ares, but also Adonis.

According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

Her mother and her siblings had travelled with Agrippa.

Her practice of accompanying Germanicus on campaigns was considered inappropriate, and her tendency to take command in these situations was viewed with suspicion as subversively masculine.

Her friend, Acerronia Polla, was attacked by oarsmen while still in the water, and was either bludgeoned to death or drowned, since she was exclaiming that she was Agrippina, with the intention of being saved, unfortunately she did not know that this was an attempt of Agrippina's life, not a mere accident.

Her final work was a poem eulogizing Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who took a very public role in organizing French military resistance to English domination in the early 15th century.

Her strategy, to support the Dutch on the surface with an English army, while beginning secret peace talks with Spain within days of Leicester's arrival in Holland, had necessarily to be at odds with Leicester's, who wanted and was expected by the Dutch to fight an active campaign.

Almost all the women who attended this service walked out with her, as well as a few men .” Her works include: The Church and the Second Sex ( 1968 ), Beyond God the Father ( 1973 ), Gyn / ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism ( 1978 ), Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy ( 1984 ), Webster ’ s First Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language ( 1987 ), and Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage ( 1992 ).

Her 1872 work, Middlemarch, has been described as the greatest novel in the English language by Martin Amis and by Julian Barnes.

Her essays and articles have been published in Women's Studies Quarterly, Signs, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Science Fiction Studies, and College English.

Her work is widely taught in courses on science fiction and feminism throughout the English speaking world.

He became interested in an Arapaho woman whose name, Waa-Nibe, is approximated in English as " Grass Singing " Her tribe was camped nearby the rendezvous.

Her father, John Charles Smith, was the son of English Methodist immigrants, and worked a variety of odd jobs.

Other prominent academics associated with the University include Geoffrey Bennington, the creator of the MA programme in Modern French Thought ( Derrida, Lyotard ); Homi K. Bhabha ( postcolonialism ); Rachel Bowlby ( feminism, Woolf, Freud ); Geoff Cloke FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Jonathan Dollimore ( Renaissance literature, gender and queer studies ); Katy Gardner ( social anthropology ); Gabriel Josipovici ( Dante, the Bible ); Michael Land FRS ( Animal Vision-Frink Medal )); Michael Lappert FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Alan Lehmann FRS ( Genetics and Genome Stability ); ( Laura Marcus ( Woolf ); John Murrell FRS ( Theoretical Chemistry ); Peter Nicholls ( Pound, modernism ); John Nixon FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry )); Laurence Pearl FRS ( Structural Biology ); Guy Richardson FRS ( Neuroscience ); Jacqueline Rose ( feminism, psychoanalysis ); Nicholas Royle ( modern literature and theory ; deconstruction ); Alan Sinfield ( Shakespeare, sexuality, queer theory ); Norman Vance ( Victorian, classical reception ); Richard Whatmore & Knud Haakonssen ( intellectual historians ); Gavin Ashenden ( Senior Lecturer in English, University Chaplain, and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ; Cedric Watts ( Conrad, Greene ); Marcus Wood ( postcolonialism ).

Her mother has German, English, and Cherokee ancestry.

Her ancestry was said to include Scots-Irish, English, Irish, French Huguenot, and American Indian ( Tuscarora ).

Her pro-Catholic propaganda in England was one of the contributing factors for the English Civil War.

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

Her birth was registered at Hitchin, Hertfordshire, near the Strathmores ' English country house, St Paul's Walden Bury, which was also given as her birthplace in the census the following year.

Her desire to moderate the religious persecutions of previous Tudor reigns — the persecution of Catholics under Edward VI, and of Protestants under Mary I — appears to have had a moderating effect on English society.

Her book Prayers or Meditations became the first book published by an English queen under her own name.

Her work displays a simplicity of metre and rhyme shared with Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Thom Gunn, all members of the group of English poets known as The Movement.

Her mother, Joan ( Bridge ) Baez, referred to as Joan Senior or " Big Joan ", was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the second daughter of an English Anglican priest descended from the Dukes of Chandos.

Her next role would significantly reinforce her position as a bona fide international movie star, The English Patient, based on the prize winning novel by Michael Ondaatje and directed by Anthony Minghella, was a worldwide hit.

Her tendency to be witty and saucy in conversation, yet religiously devout and almost prudish in behavior, confused many of the English men but pleased some of the older socialites.

Her second husband, Waldorf Astor, was born in the United States but his father had moved the family to England when Waldorf was twelve and raised his children as English aristocrats.

Her mother was a fluent English speaker so Colbert could quickly learn English.

Her one attempt at Shakespeare, performing Lady Macbeth opposite Alec Guinness at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1966 proved to be ill-advised, although some critics were harsher and one referred to her English as " impossibly Gallic ".