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 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.

Her parents were William Edward Nightingale, born William Edward Shore ( 1794 – 1874 ) and Frances (" Fanny ") Nightingale née Smith ( 1789 – 1880 ).

Her work includes the " Conan Flagg " mystery series and the post-apocalyptic novel A Gift Upon the Shore, set along the Oregon coast.

Shore maintenance and mooring facilities bear the name Her Majesty's Canadian Dockyard ( HMC Dockyard ) ( in French L ’ arsenal canadien de Sa Majesté ( Arsenal CSM )).

Her first novel was The Dark Shore ( 1965 ).

Her first extensive travels after the war were in Turkey, which were the basis of her books Ionia a Quest ( 1954 ), The Lycian Shore ( 1956 ), Alexander's Path ( 1958 ) and Riding to the Tigris ( 1959 ).

Her success in film continued as Jane Shore in Laurence Olivier's Richard III ( 1955 ) and opposite Kirk Douglas in the Van Gogh biopic Lust for Life ( 1956 ).

Her most recent work of nonfiction, The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples ( 2008 ) is a collection of writings on Naples, Italy, co-authored by her late husband, Francis Steegmuller.

Her late brother Bruno Adams was the vocalist in the band named " Once Upon A Time ", who were produced by Mick Harvey, and he was later in the band named " Fatal Shore " ( Prague / Berlin ).

Her TV Series have included This Year, Next Year about Yorkshire hill farmers, General Hospital, playing the gynaecologist, with Lynda Bellingham, Strike it Rich-two series in the 1980s-and guest appearances in The Sweeney, Minder, Jemima Shore Investigates, House of Eliot, and Campion.

Her last film appearance was in 1995's Jury Duty, with Pauly Shore.

Her vocals have also featured on shows such as the UK Music Hall of Fame, Bollywood films “ Yuva ” and “ Zubeidaa ,” the theatrical trailer for “ Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life ,” “ Charlie's Angels ,” US sitcoms “ North Shore ” and “ Kevin Hill ,” and Sky News broadcasts.

According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

Her 1995 re-recording of " I Will Always Love You " ( performed as a duet with Vince Gill ), from her album Something Special won the Country Music Association's Vocal Event of the Year Award for Parton and Gill.

Her ambition, personal wit and cleverness won her a distinguished position in society, in spite of her humble origin.

Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.

In 2000, Encore une fois, si vous le permettez ( For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again ) won a Chalmers Award and a Dora Mavor Moore Award.

Her retirement coincided with the ending of her party's federal parliamentary representation ; the Democrats ' support had collapsed after 2002 and they won no seats at the 2004 and 2007 half-senate elections.

Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big ( 1924 ), Show Boat ( 1926 ; made into the celebrated 1927 musical ), Cimarron ( 1929 ; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), and Giant ( 1952 ; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie ).

Her performance won her a Youth In Film Award.

Her outstanding performance won her the attention of producers, who cast her in a series of films.

Her portrayal of main antagonist Cathy Ames won her a Golden Globe.

Hawn is known for her roles in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Shampoo, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Her second book, A Way of Looking, won the Somerset Maugham award and marked a turning point, as the prize money allowed her to spend nearly three months in Rome, which was a revelation.

Her next event was the 2000 Australian Open, which she won in singles without the loss of a set.

Her performance won her her first Academy Award nomination.

Her early films cast her as the girl-next-door but for most of the Pre-Code film era beginning with the 1930 film The Divorcee, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress, she played sexually liberated women in sophisticated contemporary comedies.

Her performance won her widespread acclaim ; Hal Hinson of the Washington Post saw Pfeiffer's role as " the least obvious and the most difficult.

Her environmentalism has been especially well received ; several episodes featuring her have won Genesis and Environmental Media Awards, including a special " Board of Directors Ongoing Commitment Award " in 2001.

Her aristocratic manners and artistic integrity won her the titles " Queen of the Neva " and " Soul of the Silver Age ," as the period came to be known in the history of Russian poetry.

Her first year back she won eight of eighteen events, but the following year she won every event she entered, a total of twenty-two races.

Her role as the grand Russian princess in a huge commercial success, Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ), won her international acclaim and the Evening Standard British Film Award as Best Actress.

Her big break came in 1983 when she was cast by Martin Scorsese to star as stalker and kidnapper Masha in the film The King of Comedy for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Her father, Walter Augustus de Havilland ( 31 August 1872 – 23 May 1968 ; aged 95 ), was a patent attorney with a practice in Japan, and her mother, Lilian Augusta ( née Ruse ; 11 June 1886 – 20 February 1975 ; aged 88 ) was a stage actress who had left her career after going to Tokyo with her husband – she would return to work after her daughters had already won fame in the 40s, with the stage name of Lillian Fontaine.

Her victory won her the respect and admiration of her peers, among them her own sister Joan Fontaine, who later commented, " Hollywood owes Olivia a great deal ".