Her family is Jewish, and her grandparents emigrated from Russia.

Her grandparents were in a band that played throughout Ireland, her father was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band before opening Leo's Tavern, and her mother played in a dance band and later taught music at Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair.

Her maternal grandparents were immigrants from England.

Her maternal grandparents were of mixed European and Eastern Cherokee ancestry ; of particular importance to her as a child was her grandfather, Calvin Clinton Copeland, who was a great source of inspiration and guidance to her as a young child, offering a more pantheistic spiritual alternative to her father and paternal grandmother's traditional Christianity.

Her paternal grandparents were immigrants from Russia and Romania ; many of her father's family perished in the Holocaust.

Her paternal grandparents were Emperor Charles IV and Elizabeth of Pomerania.

Her maternal grandparents were Malcolm III of Scotland and Saint Margaret of Scotland.

Her paternal grandparents were William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders.

Her maternal Polish Catholic grandparents were imprisoned at Auschwitz because they were considered to be intellectuals by the Nazi occupiers.

Her maternal grandparents were Millicent Green, a dancer with the George White's Scandals, a series of 1920s musical revues similar to the Ziegfeld Follies, and Johnny McAfee, a multireedist and vocalist of the big band era ; her grandparents met while touring with Johnny Hamp and his orchestra.

Her parents were likely brother and sister and hence she had only one set of grandparents.

Her paternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants and two of her maternal great-grandparents were Danish.

Her maternal grandparents were Guy of Dampierre and his first wife Matilda of Bethune.

Her maternal grandparents were John II of France and Bonne of Bohemia.

Her maternal grandparents were John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and his second wife Lady Margaret Beauchamp.

Her maternal grandparents were Otto-William, Duke of Burgundy and Ermentrude of Rheims.

Her " maternal grandparents were Unitarians – a non-conformist faith with a strong emphasis on social reform ...".

Her paternal grandparents were natives of Wales, and her maternal grandparents were Swedish and Scottish.

Her maternal grandparents were John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and Katherine Swynford.

Her paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother were Russian Jews, and her maternal grandfather was Chinese Filipino.

Her maternal grandparents were Eric II, Duke of Schleswig ( reigned 1312 – 1325 ) and Adelaide of Holstein-Rendsburg.

Her paternal grandparents were Archduke Charles of Austria and Princess Henriette Alexandrine of Nassau-Weilburg.

Her maternal grandparents owned theatres.

“ Nancy Friday ’ s successful fantasy revelations ( My Secret Garden, Forbidden Flowers ) have seen her placed among the feminist erotic pioneers .” Her writings argue that women have often been reared under an ideal of womanhood, which was outdated and restrictive, and largely unrepresentative of many women ’ s true inner lives, and that openness about women ’ s hidden lives could help free women to truly feel able to enjoy being themselves.

# Her pet little owl Athena which she rescued in Athens and hand reared, he became her constant companion, travelling everywhere in her pocket.

Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.

Her own body protested, aching painfully where the blood in her veins had congealed, where cold demon wisps still clung and caressed.

Her impact in the zing commercials had led to her being considered for an excellent part in an upcoming TV series, Underwater Western Eye, a documentary-type show to be sponsored by Oatnut Grits.

Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.

Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.

Her white blond hair was clean and brushed long straight down to her shoulders.

Her face was pale but set and her dark eyes smoldered with blame for Ben.

Her long thin arms moved in a slow rhythmical gesture over the family possessions which were placed in front of her.

Her clothes, her hair, everything about her is both graceful and simple.

Her mother called her Paus'l, a Luxemburg endearment meaning `` pussycat ''.

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

Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.

Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.

Her house stood on a rise of ground, and before she got into her car she looked at the houses below.