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.

Her first talkie was Untamed ( 1929 ), opposite Robert Montgomery, which was a box office success.

Her first talkie, New York Nights ( 1929 ), showed that she could speak and act acceptably in talkies.

Her first starring role was in a Warner Brothers talkie called Going Wild ( 1930 ).

Taylor is possibly best recalled for her roles in the 1922 drama Monte Cristo, opposite John Gilbert ; the enormously successful 1923 Cecil B. DeMille directed The Ten Commandments as Miriam, the sister of Moses ; as Lucrezia Borgia in the 1926 Warner Bros .' first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack Don Juan, with John Barrymore, Mary Astor and Warner Oland ; 1927's New York, featuring Ricardo Cortez and Lois Wilson ; 1931's Street Scene with Sylvia Sidney ; the Academy Award-winning Cimarron ; and the Clara Bow talkie Call Her Savage in 1932.

Her movie appearances include Jerry Maguire, Trial and Error and The Real Blonde.

Her most recent roles include her portrayal of the title character in true crime drama Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy and Kirby Reed in the slasher film Scream 4.

Their early material — From Her to Eternity ( 1984 ), The Firstborn Is Dead ( 1985 ), Your Funeral ... My Trial ( 1986 ) and Tender Prey ( 1988 )— had a primarily post-punk sound.

Her output continued with The Governor ( ITV 1995-96 ), a series focusing on the female governor of a high security prison, and was followed by a string of ratings-pulling mini-series: Trial & Retribution ( ITV 1997 -), Bella Mafia ( 1997 ) ( starring Vanessa Redgrave ), ( ITV 1998 ), Killer Net ( Channel 4 1998 ) and Mind Games ( ITV 2001 ).

He appeared on four of that band's albums: From Her to Eternity, The Firstborn Is Dead, Kicking Against the Pricks and Your Funeral, My Trial.

Her other films include Mary of Scotland ( 1936 ), The Letter ( 1940 ), The Trial of Mary Dugan ( 1941 ), You'll Never Get Rich ( 1941 ) and A Place in the Sun ( 1951 ).

Her father, Roy Dotrice, also guest starred on the show in season 4's " Trial By Ordeal ".

Her parents, pious Roman Catholics, christened her Mary Anne Elizabeth Magdalene Steichen.

Her two children by Philip II, Philip, count of Clermont ( died 1234 ), and Mary, who married Philip I of Namur, were legitimized by the pope in 1201 at the request of the king.

Her name is Mary spelled backwards.

Her testimonial launch of the Second Crusade from Vézelay, the rumored location of Mary Magdalene ´ s burial, dramatically emphasized the role of women in the campaign.

Her half-brother, Edward VI, bequeathed the crown to Lady Jane Grey, cutting his two half-sisters, Elizabeth and the Catholic Mary, out of the succession in spite of statute law to the contrary.

Her older half-sister, Mary, had lost her position as a legitimate heir when Henry annulled his marriage to Mary's mother, Catherine of Aragon, in order to marry Anne and sire a male heir to ensure the Tudor succession.

Her silence, however, strengthened her own political security: she knew that if she named an heir, her throne would be vulnerable to a coup ; she remembered that the way " a second person, as I have been " had been used as the focus of plots against her sister, Queen Mary.

Her fifth child, Catherine, married King Henry VIII of England and was mother to Queen Mary I of England.

Her mother, Marie de Guise, stayed in Scotland to look after the interests of Mary — and of France — although the Earl of Arran acted officially as regent.

Mary Cassatt, Lydia Leaning on Her Arms ( in a theatre box ), 1879

Her father was Herbert Bradley, a lawyer and naturalist, and her mother was Mary Hastings Bradley, a prolific writer of fiction and travel books.

Her third and longest-lasting marriage ( 1936 – 1950 ) was to the British Anthropologist Gregory Bateson with whom she had a daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, who would also become an anthropologist.

Her mother died in 1671, and her father remarried in 1673, taking as his second wife Mary of Modena, a Catholic who was only four years older than Mary.

Her opponents gave her the sobriquet " Bloody Mary ".

Her father, Eugene Muse Mitchell, was an attorney, and her mother, Mary Isabel " May Belle " ( or " Maybelle ") Stephens, was a suffragist.

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

Her father then reveals that his wedding with her mother, which Mary had always seen as the perfect marriage, was actually arranged and only became a loving relationship months later, leaving Mary feeling very confused.

Her peacemaking also helped reconcile Henry with his daughters Mary and Elizabeth and fostered a good relationship between her and the crown prince.

Her father was Prince Albert, Duke of York ( later George VI ), the second son of King George V and Queen Mary.

Her mother Fanny separated from her father Henry in 1840, when Mary was five.

Her parents, Mary Elizabeth " Mollie " ( née Baker ) and Jonas Bailey Gardner, were poor cotton and tobacco farmers.

Her testament of June 6, 1939 states, " I beg the Lord to take my life and my death … for all concerns of the sacred hearts of Jesus and Mary and the holy church, especially for the preservation of our holy order, in particular the Carmelite monasteries of Cologne and Echt, as atonement for the unbelief of the Jewish People and that the Lord will be received by his own people and his kingdom shall come in glory, for the salvation of Germany and the peace of the world, at last for my loved ones, living or dead, and for all God gave to me: that none of them shall go astray.

Her strategy worked, and MGM cast her in the film where she first made an impression on audiences, Edmund Goulding's Sally, Irene and Mary ( 1925 ).