Her earliest American ancestors were the immigrants John Anthony ( 1607 – 1675 ), who was from Hempstead, Essex, and his wife, Susanna Potter ( c. 1623-1674 ), who was from London, Middlesex.

Her earliest writings, some of which she adapted in Orsinian Tales and Malafrena, were non-fantastic stories of imaginary countries.

Her earliest comic strips were produced for productions including Lunkentus ( Prickinas och Fabians äventyr, 1929 ), Vårbrodd ( Fotbollen som Flög till Himlen, 1930 ), and Allas Krönika ( Palle och Göran gå till sjöss, 1933 ).

Her earliest films were produced in New York.

Her earliest writings were mainly retellings of her college experiences.

Her earliest professional work included greeting cards and juvenile magazine illustrations, and her first book, Flower Fairies of the Spring, was published in 1923.

Her cult dated to the earliest period of Roman religious history, since she was one the fifteen deities who had their own flamen, the Furrinalis, one of the flamines minores.

Her romance, The Blazing World, is one of the earliest examples of science fiction.

Her earliest professional stage appearances were as a chorus girl on tour with Guido Thielscher's Girl-Kabarett, vaudeville-style entertainments, and in Rudolf Nelson revues in Berlin.

Her earliest theatrical influences were the teenaged actress Deanna Durbin, screen star Irene Dunne and Lansbury's mother, who encouraged her daughter's ambition by taking her to plays at the Old Vic.

Her most popular books, Babies and Baby Animals, have sold over 1. 7 million copies in the U. S. Fujikawa is recognized for being the earliest mainstream illustrator of picture books to include children of many races in her work.

Her maternal forebears were some of the earliest settlers and government officials in South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania.

The track " Open My Eyes " has been said to be the inspiration behind one of the earliest songs written by KISS, " Love Her All I Can ", a song originally intended for the pre-KISS band Wicked Lester.

" She also states, " Her earliest schoolmasters were Fontenelle, the abbe de Saint-Pierre, and Montesquieu.

Her earliest work to appear under her own name was Arabi and His Household ( 1882 ), a pamphlet — originally a letter to The Times — in support of Ahmed Orabi Pasha, leader of what has come to be known as the Urabi Revolt, an 1879 Egyptian nationalist revolt against the oppressive regime of the Khedive and European domination of Egypt.

Her earliest known appearance as a Muppet is a 1970s sketch in which Grover speaks to the audience about being afraid of the dark.

Her earliest television appearances included guest roles on Danger Man, Adam Adamant Lives !, The Saint, Z-Cars and The Avengers in the 1960s.

Her use of a medieval Italian document is described as " one of the earliest uses of textual sources by field archaeologists.

Her four earliest plays, Downstairs ( produced 1958 ), You've No Need to be Frightened, Having a Wonderful Time ( 1960 ), and Easy Death ( produced 1962 ) were performed by Oxford-based theatrical ensembles-student drama groups.

Her earliest memory of her father is him dangling her over a balcony by her ankles, 30 feet up in the air, threatening to drop her unless her mother did what he wanted.

Her ability to entrance and hypnotise her victim with a spell was in the earliest stories seen as being literally supernatural ; hence, the femme fatale today is still often described as having a power akin to an enchantress, seductress, vampire, witch, or demon.

Her second album, SLA2 / Be Sample ( 1992 ), was one of the earliest Brazilian pop records to extensively employ the sampler, and had success with Rio 40 Graus, composed with Fausto Fawcett and Laufer, portraying Rio de Janeiro climate, people and lifestyle.

* Her earliest publications were " Sappho " and " Hammerstein ", two poems which appeared at Leipzig in 1880.

Her earliest known acting role was in a Johnson & Johnson's No More Tears baby shampoo television commercial at age 10 months in 1969.

Her earliest known public performance as a singer was at the age of five ( in 1964 ), when she sang " Early One Morning " for her uncle and aunt and various relatives at the couple's 25th wedding anniversary celebration.

Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848.

James Hadley Chase wrote a few novels with private eyes as the main hero, including Blonde's Requiem ( 1945 ), Lay Her Among the Lilies ( 1950 ), and Figure It Out for Yourself ( 1950 ).

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 stories and novels are humanistic, while her deep concern for male-female ( even human-alien ) harmony ran counter to the developing segregate-the-sexes drive amongst feminist writers ; What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, as if some lyric poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst for final polish.

Her novels Wifey ( 1978 ) and Smart Women ( 1983 ) shot to the top of The New York Times best-seller list.

Her reputation has been altered over the years according to changing social and political perspectives, especially after the Mexican Revolution, when she was portrayed in dramas, novels, and paintings as an evil or scheming temptress.

Her portrait of messianic ( self -) sacrifices of these figures make for entertaining speculation, but they have not been taken seriously as history even by her staunchest supporters, though they have been used in novels ( e. g. Katherine Kurtz's Lammas Night, Philip Lindsay's The Devil and King John ).

Her mother read Mary Johnston's novels to her before she could read.

Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big ( 1924 ), Show Boat ( 1926 ; made into the celebrated 1927 musical ), Cimarron ( 1929 ; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), and Giant ( 1952 ; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie ).

* Elizabeth von Arnim's novels Elizabeth and Her German Garden and Solitary Summer

Her youngest daughter Sara Cassidy has published young adult novels including SLICK 2010 and WINDFALL 2011.

Her works include novels, plays, stories, libretti and poems written in a highly idiosyncratic, playful, repetitive, and humorous style.

Her class is to a large extent about their work in progress, mainly novels which they started during the preceding term.

Her most famous novels include Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ), Death on the Nile ( 1937 ), and the world's best-selling mystery And Then There Were None ( 1939 ).

Her novels were romantic stories of the time and concentrated on women in the marriage market ; either beautiful and superficial, or unattractive with no hope of joining it, and the person telling the story and observing them is often an independent woman.

Her two novels were Wise Blood ( 1952 ) and The Violent Bear It Away ( 1960 ).

Her historical novels were noted for how extensively she researched the historical facts, and some of them were best-sellers: Dragonwyck ( 1944 ) and Foxfire ( 1950 ) were both made into Hollywood films.

Blofeld appears or is heard in three novels: Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and You Only Live Twice ; and six James Bond films from Eon Productions: From Russia with Love ( 1963 ), Thunderball ( 1965 ), You Only Live Twice ( 1967 ), On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ), Diamonds Are Forever ( 1971 ) and For Your Eyes Only ( 1981 ) ( the pre-title sequence of which marks his final appearance and apparent death ).

Her novels and mysteries are set in England, France, and Wales, and are about English and Welsh royalty during the Middle Ages.

Her work is generally well received, with the more recent novels reaching the New York Times Bestseller List.

) Her critically acclaimed short stories and novels have secured her reputation as a major American writer.

Her bestselling Mitford series of novels is set in a small town based on Blowing Rock ; she calls the town " Mitford ".

Her cover is research into Sheridan Le Fanu, an Anglo-Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels of the 19th century.

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.