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

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

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 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 mother had done it before her, and even her old grandmother, who had collected money for smallpox and unwed mothers.

Her mother also was a person of superior mind and broad interests.

Her eyes became bright as she talked about her father and mother, aunts and uncles, cousins.

Her mother and father, for instance.

Her mother would be fast asleep curled up against that wonderful, big, safe, solid shoulder next to her on the front seat.

Her mother was already considerably concerned over her daughter's future.

Her mother is the former Miss Stella Hayward.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

Her mother was a Greer and her father's family came from the Orkney Isles.

Her mother was Agnes of Rochlitz.

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 mother and her siblings had travelled with Agrippa.

Her remaining children were raised between her, Livia Drusilla and Germanicus ’ mother Antonia Minor.

Her mother was Anaxo, daughter of Alcaeus and Astydamia, daughter of Pelops and Hippodameia.

Her mother Cassiopeia boasted that her daughter was more beautiful than the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus and often seen accompanying Poseidon.

Her mother, Nadezhda Kalmykova, was the daughter of a former serf who had bought his freedom before serfdom was abolished in 1861, allowing him to become a wealthy Moscow merchant .< ref >

Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.

Her mother was born Countess Maria-Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss, French, and Egyptian ancestry.

His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.

Her mother was also named Marie-Madeline, and this plethora of " Maries " may have been the reason she went by Sophie.

Her mother was Ann Sophie Weigall née Hamilton.

Her personality as Sophie is initially somewhat timid, however, by the end of the book she becomes an adept magician and confident young woman.

She was born as the eighth child and sixth daughter of Paul I of Russia and Empress Maria Feodorovna ( born Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg ), and thus was Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia.

Her sister, Sophie, who was the more attractive child, represented a threat in the struggle for the affection of their father: ' the two young Freuds developed their version of a common sisterly division of territories: " beauty " and " brains "', and their father once spoke of her ' age-old jealousy of Sophie '.

In 1938-1939, she had her own radio program, Sophie Tucker and Her Show, broadcasting for 15 minutes on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays.

Her mother, the well-known Madame Sophie Gay, brought her up in the midst of a brilliant literary society.

Her maternal grandmother, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, and her paternal first-cousin Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom served as sponsors at her baptism ; her second given name came from Princess Augusta Sophie.

* 23 February 1847 – 28 September 1868 Her Royal Highness Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria

Her sisters included Eleonor Magdalene, Holy Roman Empress, Maria Sofia, Queen of Portugal, Maria Anna, Queen of Spain and Dorothea Sophie, Duchess of Parma and mother of the famous Elisabeth Farnese.

Her mother, Sophie, is established to have committed suicide when Susan was a child, which Ivanova blames on the Psi Corps.

Her paternal grandparents were John I, Duke of Lorraine and Sophie of Wurttemberg.

Her stepfather is Sir Nicholas Lloyd, former editor of the Daily Express, and her half-sister, from her father's second marriage, to children's author Cindy Black, is actress Sophie Winkleman, wife of Lord Frederick Windsor.

Her relationship with actor Julian Holloway produced one daughter, model and author Sophie Dahl.

Her partner, Sophie Allouache, a public servant and former University of Adelaide Students ' Association president, attended her swearing-in ceremony along with Wong's mother, Jane Chapman.

Her children were Dorothea Ackermann, Sophie Charlotte Ackermann and Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann.

Her finest moments on disc include her Eva in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Sophie in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier.

Her daughter Sophie Grigson ( b. 1959 ) is also a cookery writer and broadcaster.

Her roles at the Met included Susanna in Nozze di Figaro ; Despina in Così fan tutte ; The Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute ; Amore in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice ; Marzeline in Beethoven's Fidelio ; Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia ; Adina in Elisir d ' amore ; Norina in Don Pasquale ; Oscar in Ballo in maschera ; Nanetta in Falstaff ; Olympia in Les contes d ' Hoffmann ; Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier ; Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos ; and Adele in Die Fledermaus.

Her acquaintances praised Sophie d ' Houdetot for her generosity and intelligence rather than for her beauty.

* 3 July 1746-1 October 1766 Her Royal Highness Princess Sophie Magdalene of Denmark and Norway

Her three sisters were soprano Josepha Weber ( 1758 – 1819 ), who premiered the role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute ; Constanze Weber the wife of Mozart ; and Sophie Weber.

Her desire to continue her burgeoning career, she used the professional name Mary Gray for a while, and her faltering relationship with her husband prompted her to relocate to Chicago where she was noticed by a talent agent, Frank Westphal, who took her to New York and introduced her to his wife, singer Sophie Tucker.