Her temper sparked like charcoal when it first lights up.

Her first day at work she was puzzled by an entry in the doctor's notes on an emergency case.

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

Her first actual flight, for she and her kind had made mock flights on dummy panels since she was eight, showed her complete mastery of the techniques of her profession.

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

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.

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.

Her goal was to become the first Christian singer-songwriter who was also successful as a contemporary pop singer.

Her father's grandfather had fled France during the Revolution, going first to Saint-Domingue, then New Orleans, and finally to Cuba where he helped build that country's first railway.

Her first published work was a critical evaluation of D. H. Lawrence called D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study, which she wrote in sixteen days.

Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until, in 1874, she joined the " rejected " Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions, which included Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley.

Her first school was located in a 17th-century house.

Her first act surprises Odrade greatly.

Her mother, Kay Calista, reversed her own first and middle names in naming her Calista Kay.

Her report, Work Accidents and the Law ( 1910 ), became a classic and resulted in the first workers ' compensation law, which she drafted while serving on a New York state commission.

Her first stories appeared in pulp magazines in the 1930s, including two significant series in Weird Tales.

Her first name, Drew, was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother, Georgie Drew Barrymore ; her middle name, Blyth, was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore.

Her recording of " Sentimental Journey " was the first song placed in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Her first country single, " Dumb Blonde " ( one of the few songs during this era, that she recorded but did not write ), reached number twenty-four on the country music charts in 1967, followed the same year with Something Fishy, which went to number seventeen.

Her first entirely self-produced effort, 1977's New Harvest ... First Gathering, highlighted Parton's pop sensibilities, both in terms of choice of songs-the album contained covers of the pop and R & B classics " My Girl " and " Higher and Higher " – and the album's production.

* Cradle of Filth, a popular British extreme metal band, has produced an album called Dusk ... and Her Embrace inspired by " Carmilla ", and have also recorded an instrumental track titled " Carmilla's Masque ".

Her nightlife and constant partying became a popular subject with the media.

Her books were and still are enormously popular throughout the Commonwealth and across most of the globe.

Her 1986 album, The Power of Gloria Gaynor, was almost entirely composed of cover versions of other songs that were popular at the time.

Her social background was similar to what Ventris ' had been: her family was well-to-do, she had travelled in Europe, and she was interested in architecture, in addition to which she was popular and was considered very beautiful.

Her top billing reflected her status in Hollywood, and the film was popular with audiences and critics.

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 ).

Her cult was popular throughout Egypt, but her most important temples were at Behbeit El-Hagar in the Nile delta, and, beginning in the reign with Nectanebo I ( 380 – 362 BCE ), on the island of Philae in Upper Egypt.

Her other notable film roles include Sara in Runaway Train in 1985, Helen McCaffrey in the thriller Backdraft in 1991, her portrayal of the chillingly twisted nanny Peyton Flanders in the popular 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and as Wendy Torrance in Stephen King's 1997 television adaptation of The Shining.

Her children are popular science writer and co-author Dorion Sagan, software developer and founder of Sagan Technology, Jeremy Sagan, New York City criminal defense lawyer Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma, and teacher and author Jennifer Margulis.

Her symbol was the owl which is still a popular representation of wisdom, because it can see in darkness.

Her father was Teackle Wallis Warfield, fifth and youngest son of Henry Mactier Warfield, a flour merchant described as " one of the best known and personally one of the most popular citizens of Baltimore " who ran for mayor in 1875.

Her research interests are in feminism, African American studies, critical theory, Marxism, popular music and social consciousness, and the philosophy and history of punishment and prisons.

Her image was much satirized and taken up as camp, and today, the " Carmen Miranda " persona is popular among drag performers.

Her most popular song is Échale guindas al pavo.

Her writings are considered classics of Israeli literature and remain very popular among Hebrew speaking Israelis.

It has aspects of Barrie's The Old Lady Shows Her Medals and also more than a mere suggestion of Shaw's Pygmalion, set forth, as might be anticipated, in a more popular vein.

Her risqué routines captivated Paris, and she went on to become the most popular French entertainer of her time and the highest paid female entertainer in the world, known for her flamboyance and a zest for the theatrical.

Her homemade mayonnaise became so popular that her company began to focus exclusively on producing and selling the mayonnaise, eventually selling out to the C. F.

Her name is added to a list of great artists and notables in the popular Broadway musical " Rent " in the song " La Vie Boheme ".

Her appearances were popular ; Lindsay Anderson observed that the public enjoyed seeing her behaving " so bitchy ".

Her mastery is unparalleled when it comes to the seduction of certain powerful individuals, but popular criticism supports the notion that " as far as Cleopatra is concerned, the main thrust of the play's action might be described as a machine especially devised to bend her to the Roman will ... and no doubt Roman order is sovereign at the end of the play.

Her second collection, The Rosary ( or Beads – Chetki ) appeared in March 1914 and firmly established her as one of the most popular and sought after poets of the day.

Her first album, entitled Al Ahavot Shelanu ( Our Love ), was released in 1980 and yielded a string of popular radio hits, including Hageshem ( The Rain ), Shir Ahava La ' chayal ( Love Song For The Soldier ), Kmo Tzipor ( Like A Bird ) and what ultimately became her signature song in Israel, Shir Ha ' frecha ( The Bimbo Song ).

Her singles " Take Me High " ( 1975 ) and " Lovin ' You " ( 1976 ) were mainly popular in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.