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Her husband, who is the son of Alton John Mason of Shreveport, La., and the late Mrs. Henry Cater Parmer, was president of Alpha Tau Omega and a member of Delta Sigma Pi at Lamar Tech, and did graduate work at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, on a Rotary Fellowship.
Her Latin origins and culture however led to creeping resentment from her Greek subjects ( who felt insulted enough by the late Manuel's Western tastes, let alone being ruled by his Western wife ), building up to an explosion of rioting that almost became a full civil war.
Her books in the late 1920s included the semi-autobiographical The Fairy Caravan, a fanciful tale set in her beloved Troutbeck fells.
Her age at the time is unknown ; however, assumptions have been made that she was in her late teens or early twenties.
Her remains were interred at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York, pending an eventual burial with her late husband who was entombed in Cihu, Taiwan.
Her parents were born on São Miguel Island and emigrated to Canada in the late 1960s.
Her primary concern in late 1787 and 1788 was instead the improved health of the Dauphin.
Her brother, Ben Davis, played defensive back for the Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
In the late 1990s, Her Majesty's Government and the Scottish Executive re-examined the definition of a city and produced a list of approved cities, from which Perth was omitted.
Her stage work in the late 1950s laid the foundation for her film career in the 1960s.
Her late siblings, Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, were also acclaimed actors.
Her writing prowess suggests that she did not suffer from the mental degeneration of late stages of syphilis, nor from cerebral poisoning due to mercury treatments.
Her outspokenness led the Hanoi regime to refuse to allow her into the country late in 2004 when she applied for an entry visa to meet with dissidents.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, von Sydow appeared in such films as Flash Gordon ( 1980 ), Strange Brew ( 1983 ), David Lynch's Dune ( 1984 ), and Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ).
Her mythic connections to Dionysus are minimal and late, but both cults focused on the foreigner-deity's arrival in a chariot, drawn by exotic big cats – Dionysus by tigers, Cybele by lions.
Her paternal grandfather was actor John Carradine and she is the niece of Robert and the late David Carradine.
During this time he completed the screenplay for If I Catch Her, I'll Kill Her, a live-action feature he had been developing since the late 1960s.
Her embroidered pictures were much admired by friends and relatives, so when arthritis eventually made it painful to wield a needle, her sister suggested that it might be easier to paint — the pivotal suggestion that spurred her painting career in her late 70s.
Her late older sister, Princess Hedvig Sophia, had left a son, Charles Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp, who had the better claim by primogeniture.
Her mother, Miriam, died late in the summer of 1978.
Her annual world tours and Italian TV shows, however, continued to include her best of the late sixties.
Her entries begin late into her first year of marriage and finish just before her death, and consist of more than a thousand pages of entries.
Her late husband had been William Longespee, an illegitimate son of King Henry II.
After signing to Columbia Records, the group released perhaps one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the late 1960s, Child Is Father to the Man, featuring the Harry Nilsson song, " Without Her ", and perhaps Kooper's most memorable blues number, " I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know ".

Her and novel
Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.
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 award-winning 1974 novel The Dispossessed, a book in the Hainish Cycle, tells of the invention of the ansible.
Her 1872 work, Middlemarch, has been described as the greatest novel in the English language by Martin Amis and by Julian Barnes.
Her first complete novel, published in 1859, was Adam Bede and was an instant success, but it prompted an intense interest in who this new author might be.
Her last novel was Daniel Deronda, published in 1876, whereafter she and Lewes moved to Witley, Surrey ; but by this time Lewes's health was failing and he died two years later on 30 November 1878.
Her latest and third adult novel Summer Sisters ( 1998 ) was widely praised and has sold more than 3 million copies.
Her subsequent novel The Dispossessed made her the first person to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel twice for the same two books.
Her novel The Farthest Shore won the 1973 National Book Award in category Children's Books.
Her 1971 novel The Lathe of Heaven has been adapted twice: first in 1980 by thirteen / WNET New York, with her own participation, and again in 2002 by the A & E Network.
* Pervical Everett, For Her Dark Skin ( novel, 1990 )
Her most famous novel was Madame de ..., published in 1951, which was adapted into the celebrated film The Earrings of Madame de ... ( 1953 ), directed by Max Ophüls and starring Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux and Vittorio de Sica.
Her novel Quartet in Autumn ( 1977 ) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Her comeback novel, Quartet in Autumn ( 1977 ), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and her work found new audiences in the United States.
Her next role would significantly reinforce her position as a bona fide international movie star, The English Patient, based on the prize winning novel by Michael Ondaatje and directed by Anthony Minghella, was a worldwide hit.
Her first novel, Les variations Goldberg ( 1981 ), was awarded the Prix Contrepoint and was shortlisted for the Prix Femina.
Her latest novel is Infrarouge ( 2010 ).
* A race of vampire-like creatures in the Tim Powers novel The Stress of Her Regard
Her last novel, Unless ( 2002 ), was nominated for the 2002 Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award, the Booker Prize and the 2003 Orange Prize for Fiction.
Her last novel, Unless, contains a passionate defense of female writers who write of ' domestic ' subjects.
Her first novel, Bonheur d ' occasion ( 1945 ), gave a starkly realistic portrait of the lives of people in Saint-Henri, a working-class neighbourhood of Montreal.
Her first novel, Seven Poor Men of Sydney ( 1934 ) dealt with the lives of radicals and dockworkers, but she was not a practitioner of social realism.
Stead's Letty Fox: Her Luck, often regarded as an equally fine novel, was officially banned in Australia for several years because it was considered amoral and salacious.
Her novel La plaça del diamant (' The diamond square ', translated as ' The Time of the Doves ', 1962 ) has become the most acclaimed Catalan novel of all time and since the year it was published for the first time, it has been translated into over 20 languages.

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