Her great-uncle Tiberius had already become emperor and the head of the family after the death of Augustus in 14.

Her great-uncle, John Tyler Morgan, served six terms in the United States Senate ; her paternal grandfather edited a newspaper in Montgomery ; and her maternal grandfather was Willis Benson Machen, who served a partial term as a U. S. senator from Kentucky.

Her great-uncle was the hymn-writing bishop Reginald Heber and her niece the writer Stella Benson.

Ginette Neveu was born in Paris into a musical family: Her brother Jean-Paul Neveu became a classical pianist, and the composer and organist Charles-Marie Widor was their great-uncle.

Her great-grandfather, the 8th Earl was brother-in-law of Alice Keppel, the mistress of King Edward VII and was the great-uncle of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.

Her seventh great-uncle is George Washington, the first president of the United States.

Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

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 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 mouth, which had been so much in my thoughts, was warm and moist and tender.

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 thick hair was the color and texture of charcoal.

Her laugh was hard.

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

Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to cut loose the lifeboat which dropped heavily into the water.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

( Her account was later confirmed by the Scobee-Frazier Expedition from the University of Manitoba in 1951.

Her mother was a good manager and established a millinery business in Milwaukee.

Her name was Esther Peter.

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 action was involuntary.

Her name was Mollie.

Her speech was barren of southernisms ; ;

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 hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.

Her voice was ripe and full and her teeth flashed again in Sicilian brilliance before the warm curved lips met and her mouth settled in repose.

Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show, as Betsy in Taxi Driver, as Madeleine Spencer in Psych, as Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting, as Cybill Sheridan in Cybill, and as Phyllis Kroll in The L Word.

Her first marriage, to U. S. naval officer Win Spencer, was punctuated with periods of separation and eventually ended in divorce.

Her pacifism was influenced by the writings of Immanuel Kant, Henry Thomas Buckle, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin and Leo Tolstoy ( Tolstoy praised Die Waffen nieder!

Her half brother Spencer is a director and directed the video for her single " Parting Gift ".

Her father, the 1st Earl Spencer, was a great-grandson of the 1st Duke of Marlborough.

For example, although there would be the same Y chromosome in the princes expected ( as of 2010 ) to be the next two Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ( HRH Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, son of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, and HRH Prince William, son of HRH Princess of Wales Diana Spencer ), that DNA would be inherited from the father of the current ( as of 2010 ) Prince of Wales ( HRH Prince Charles ), and not from the Queen or the prior Kings.

Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers such as Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence, and artists such as Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and Gilbert Spencer.

Her many films include Boom Town ( 1940 ) with Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, Comrade X with Gable, White Cargo ( 1942 ), and Tortilla Flat ( 1942 ) with Tracy and John Garfield, based on the novel by John Steinbeck.

Her first cousin Josalee Douglas was the first wife of Count Jean-François de Chambrun, who later married Raine, Countess Spencer, the former stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Her stepdaughter-in-law, Victoria, became Countess Spencer.

Her first book was published in 1960, Sonya-by-the-Shore, and the Jumbo Spencer series followed.

Her half-brother Jimmy Miller was a record producer during the late 1960s and early 1970s, working in support of the Rolling Stones, Traffic, the Spencer Davis Group and Delaney and Bonnie, among others.

Her movie Seducing Charlie Barker ( 2010 ), directed by Amy Glazer was in theather and in 2012, she stars on two news movies Changing Hearts with Brad Johnson and Birds of Paradise with Ryan Guzman, Misha Crosby and Spencer Grammer.

Her character Anna Devane, moving in with Luke Spencer.

Her first film of 2011 was The Help, a movie adaption of Kathryn Stockett's 2009 best-selling novel of the same name ; it also starred Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and Jessica Chastain.

Her mother was Anna Maria Wilhelmina Spencer Stanhope, the sister of the artist John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and a descendant of Coke of Norfolk who was an Earl of Leicester.

Her uncle, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, was a great influence on her works.

In addition, many episodes featured one-off guest stars, including Michael Crawford as Frank Spencer, who came in to find the whole audience dressed as Frank after Fantastic Stuart Henderson from Troon had performed as Frank singing The Beatles song " I Saw Her Standing There ", and Ken Dodd in a highwayman's outfit-' Going cheap at the Maxwell sale ' - as Noel's long lost ' twin ', Berasent.

Her husband was Spencer B. Moore of Portland, Oregon, and they had one son.

Her circle of friends in this period included Alan Moorehead, Freya Stark, Bernard Spencer, Patrick Kinross, Olivia Manning and Lawrence Durrell.

Her other books are Das Land der Menschen, Schilf ( translated into English as Dark Matter by Christine Lo ), Alles auf dem Rasen, Kleines Konversationslexikon für Haushunde, Spieltrieb, Ein Hund läuft durch die Republik and Corpus Delicti ( translated into English as The Method by Sally-Ann Spencer ).

Her cover of the Bob Dylan song " All I Really Wanna Do " was included on the Party Of Five soundtrack (' 96 ), and her compositions can also be heard in films including According to Spencer (" Something Else "), Forces of Nature (" A Rose By Any Other Name ") and The Price of Kissing (" Scandinavian Ladies ").

Her other children, including the late Cecelia Marjon Goodridge who resided in Ohio with her husband Spencer Goodridge and their 5 children, take residence in several states across the U. S. and some still live in the West African country of Liberia.