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 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.

Her stories have been retold in song, film, ballet and animation.

Her Journal was an important laboratory for her creativity serving as both sketchbook and literary experiment where in tiny handwriting she reported on society, recorded her impressions of art and artists, recounted stories, and observed life around her.

Her early stories were notable for their emphasis on the senses and emotions, which was highly unusual at the time.

Her work involves children's adventure stories, and fantasy, sometimes involving magic.

* The Infinite Moment ( 1961 ) ( US edition of Consider Her Ways, with two stories dropped, two others added )

Her story " The Autobiography of My Mother " was one of the 1977 O. Henry Prize stories.

* " 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 stories have been included in numerous anthologies and a few have had radio and television adaptations.

Her 1951 marriage to Charles Dye ended in divorce a year later, but during that time, one of her stories was published under Dye's name.

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

Her stories and images can never be forgotten.

Her distinctive colours of blue with buff stripes were carried by horses such as Special Cargo, the winner of the 1984 Whitbread Gold Cup, and Devon Loch, which spectacularly halted just short of the winning post at the 1956 Grand National and whose jockey Dick Francis later had a successful career as the writer of racing-themed detective stories.

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

Her stories tended to be ecologically based and at one point featured giant killer flowers.

Her exit from the picture was also the most sympathetic when, after helping to assist two children to escape the disaster, her character fell 110 stories to her death from a scenic elevator on the outside of the building which was derailed following an explosion.

" Her story is part of the Ulster Cycle, the best-known stories of pre-Christian Ireland.

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 foibles are commonly featured in stories.

Her short stories were published in magazines and collected in four volumes.

Her long correspondence with the latter forms the subject of one of her short stories, " The Letter Writers " ( published in The Blush, 1951 ), but the letters were unfortunately destroyed, in line with her general policy of keeping her private life private.

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

Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy-drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begin and end with a family Thanksgiving dinner.

Her first assignments were stories that did not interest " the big boys.

Her stories often focus on moments of disruption and frequently open rather abruptly.