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Her father, a physical education teacher ( who had represented Great Britain in the 1912 Summer Olympics ), taught briefly at Sidcot School, and sometime during this period Simmons followed her elder sister on to the village stage and sang songs such as " Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow ".
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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 father wrote of it, " I see nothing in the way of a good appreciation of Louisa's merits as a woman and a writer.
Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.
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Her Journal reveals her growing sophistication as a critic as well as the influence of her father ’ s friend the artist Sir John Everett Millais who recognised Beatrix ’ s talent of observation.
Her father, unable to bear the grief of his loss, and feeling adrift in a foreign country, returned to his native France for 16 years, with only one visit back to Philadelphia.
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Her and physical
Her physical condition may have limited her mobility on the stage, but the charm of her voice, which had altered little with age, ensured her triumphs.
Her physical appearance was such that romantic heroines were out of the question, and she soon established her name in comedy, appearing in many of the most successful British plays and films.
Her childhood in Toulouse was marked by the physical decay of her father, due to the gas he had been exposed to in the trenches during the war in 1914.
Her British and continental counterpart Brigantia seems to have been the Celtic equivalent of the Roman Minerva and the Greek Athena ( Encyclopædia Britannica: Celtic Religion ), goddesses with very similar functions and apparently embodying the same concept of ' elevated state ', whether physical or psychological.
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Her distinguishing physical characteristics are a mop of red, curly hair, a red dress and vacant circles for eyes.
" Her style is notable by not displaying the more obvious attributes of the female star, with neither her face or physical makeup being considered " beautiful ".
Her audiences were struck by the contrast between her physical girlishness and the eloquence with which she spoke of spiritual matters, and found in that contrast support for the notion that spirits were speaking through her.
Her mother was the former Minnie Lee Pattillo ( 1874 – 1918 ), an opera lover who felt out of place in Karnack and who was often in " poor emotional and physical health.
Her mother, who was a cousin of Baroness Mary Vetsera, a mistress of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, said that Count Gizycki's main interest in life was " the pleasuring of women in a physical way ....
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Her physical beauty is sometimes distracting, but not enough to keep the audience awed by her acting.
Baum described her physical appearance in detail, in The Marvelous Land of Oz: " Her eyes sparkled as two diamonds, and her lips were tinted like a tourmaline.
Her choreography, as a reflection of her awareness of acting, reflected the angst and turmoil of the characters instead of simply focusing on a dancer's physical technique.
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