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.

James Hadley Chase wrote a few novels with private eyes as the main hero, including Blonde's Requiem ( 1945 ), Lay Her Among the Lilies ( 1950 ), and Figure It Out for Yourself ( 1950 ).

Her classical education left its mark ; Christopher Stray has observed that " George Eliot's novels draw heavily on Greek literature ( only one of her books can be printed correctly without the use of a Greek typeface ), and her themes are often influenced by Greek tragedy ".

* " Her stories and novels are humanistic, while her deep concern for male-female ( even human-alien ) harmony ran counter to the developing segregate-the-sexes drive amongst feminist writers ; What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, as if some lyric poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst for final polish.

Her reputation has been altered over the years according to changing social and political perspectives, especially after the Mexican Revolution, when she was portrayed in dramas, novels, and paintings as an evil or scheming temptress.

Her portrait of messianic ( self -) sacrifices of these figures make for entertaining speculation, but they have not been taken seriously as history even by her staunchest supporters, though they have been used in novels ( e. g. Katherine Kurtz's Lammas Night, Philip Lindsay's The Devil and King John ).

Her mother read Mary Johnston's novels to her before she could read.

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 ).

* Elizabeth von Arnim's novels Elizabeth and Her German Garden and Solitary Summer

Her youngest daughter Sara Cassidy has published young adult novels including SLICK 2010 and WINDFALL 2011.

Her works include novels, plays, stories, libretti and poems written in a highly idiosyncratic, playful, repetitive, and humorous style.

Her class is to a large extent about their work in progress, mainly novels which they started during the preceding term.

Her most famous novels include Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ), Death on the Nile ( 1937 ), and the world's best-selling mystery And Then There Were None ( 1939 ).

Her novels were romantic stories of the time and concentrated on women in the marriage market ; either beautiful and superficial, or unattractive with no hope of joining it, and the person telling the story and observing them is often an independent woman.

Her two novels were Wise Blood ( 1952 ) and The Violent Bear It Away ( 1960 ).

Her historical novels were noted for how extensively she researched the historical facts, and some of them were best-sellers: Dragonwyck ( 1944 ) and Foxfire ( 1950 ) were both made into Hollywood films.

Blofeld appears or is heard in three novels: Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and You Only Live Twice ; and six James Bond films from Eon Productions: From Russia with Love ( 1963 ), Thunderball ( 1965 ), You Only Live Twice ( 1967 ), On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ), Diamonds Are Forever ( 1971 ) and For Your Eyes Only ( 1981 ) ( the pre-title sequence of which marks his final appearance and apparent death ).

Her novels and mysteries are set in England, France, and Wales, and are about English and Welsh royalty during the Middle Ages.

Her work is generally well received, with the more recent novels reaching the New York Times Bestseller List.

) Her critically acclaimed short stories and novels have secured her reputation as a major American writer.

Her bestselling Mitford series of novels is set in a small town based on Blowing Rock ; she calls the town " Mitford ".

Her cover is research into Sheridan Le Fanu, an Anglo-Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels of the 19th century.

Her novels are often much darker than the film adaptation of Chocolat would lead us to suppose, and characters are often emotionally damaged or morally ambivalent.

Almost all the women who attended this service walked out with her, as well as a few men .” Her works include: The Church and the Second Sex ( 1968 ), Beyond God the Father ( 1973 ), Gyn / ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism ( 1978 ), Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy ( 1984 ), Webster ’ s First Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language ( 1987 ), and Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage ( 1992 ).

Her second marriage to Geoffrey Planer lasted from 1977 to 1978.

Her occasional acting ventures were limited to theater and included performances on Broadway and in London in The Irregular Verb to Love ( 1963 ); The Kingfisher ( 1978 ) in which she co-starred with Rex Harrison, and Frederick Lonsdale's Aren't We All?

Her memoirs, Nostalgia Isn't What It Used To Be, were published in 1978.

Her parents divorced in 1978.

Her daughter Holly Randall ( born September 5, 1978 ) is an erotic photographer who now works with her mother and has her own erotic website.

Her achievements were recognized and honored with many prizes, including the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1939 ; University of Pennsylvania Glee Club Award of Merit in 1973 ; the United Nations Peace Prize, New York City's Handel Medallion, and the Congressional Gold Medal, all in 1977 ; Kennedy Center Honors in 1978 ; the George Peabody Medal in 1981 ; the National Medal of Arts in 1986 ; and a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1991.

Her posthumous book, The Life of the Mind ( 1978, edited by Mary McCarthy ), remained incomplete.

Her mother, Miriam, died late in the summer of 1978.

* 1978 Cause Celebre ( Best Actress Award, Variety Club ), Her Majesty's Theatre

Her break came when she was discovered by Jack Nicholson in the reception room of Paramount's New York office and was cast as the female lead in his second directorial effort, the 1978 Western Goin ' South.

Her film appearances also include The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne ( 1987 ), Stiff Upper Lips ( 1997 ), Howards End ( 1992 ), and BBC Theatre Night in Joe Orton's farce What the Butler Saw ( 1987 ) playing Mrs Prentice, where the cast included husband Timothy West with Dinsdale Landen and Tessa Peake-Jones, as well as a cameo in The Boys From Brazil ( 1978 ).

Her autobiography, No Bed of Roses, was published in 1978.

Her research interests focused on endocrinology, and she received certification as a pediatric endocrinologist in 1978.

Her Rhode Island home, Oak Glen, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Her first published poems appeared in the Malahat Review in 1978.

Her first released recording, in 1978, was of the song " Tomorrow ", owned by McCartney's music publishing company, from the musical Annie.

Her first single was on Rocket, " For You ", was released in 1978.

Her book The Talmadge Girls ( 1978 ) is about the actress sisters Constance Talmadge and Norma Talmadge.

Her three major championships all came at the LPGA Championship, in 1978, 1985, and 1989.

Her first specials were in 1978 / 1979 on the BBC.

Her official White House portrait, painted in 1978 by Henriette Wyeth | Henriette Wyeth Hurd

He was the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands ( Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos ) in 1978.

Her most famous book was The Far Pavilions ( 1978 ).