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 novels Wifey ( 1978 ) and Smart Women ( 1983 ) shot to the top of The New York Times best-seller list.

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.

Her physical appearance was such that romantic heroines were out of the question, and she soon established her name in comedy, appearing in many of the most successful British plays and films.

Her then two plays, Eugene O ' Neill's Dynamo and See Naples and Die ( 1929 ), were unsuccessful.

Among his 60 plays, his most famous are: Une puce à l ' oreille ( A Flea in Her Ear, 1907 ), Le Système Ribadier ( 1892 ), La Dame de Chez Maxim ( The Girl from Maxim's, 1899 ), and Hortense a dit: " Je m ' en fous!

Some of his most memorable film roles include knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal ( the first of his eleven films with Bergman, and the film that includes the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death ), Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told, Oktober in The Quiller Memorandum, Father Merrin in The Exorcist, Karl Oskar in The Emigrants, Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor, Ming the Merciless in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon, the villain Blofeld in Never Say Never Again, Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters, and Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination.

Her theory proposed that the missing fourth part of Bacon's unfinished magnum opus, the Instauratio Magna had in fact survived in the form of the plays attributed to Shakespeare.

Her plays have been staged at the Dramaten ( the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre ), Stockholms stadsteater ( Stockholm City Theatre ) and at Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra, a. o.

Her earliest theatrical influences were the teenaged actress Deanna Durbin, screen star Irene Dunne and Lansbury's mother, who encouraged her daughter's ambition by taking her to plays at the Old Vic.

Her most recent film is The Gigolos ( 2006 ) by Richard Bracewell, in which she plays Lady James.

* David Berman of the Silver Jews sings the lyric " Her doorbell plays a bar of Stephen Foster " in the song Tennessee, which appeared on the 2001 album Bright Flight.

However, he ignored the fact that, according to the Internet Broadway Database, after the production of My Lady Friends and long before No, No, Nannette went into production in 1925, Frazee produced two other very successful plays, Dulcy ( 1921-1922 ) and Her Temporary Husband, facts that call Montville's conclusion into question.

Her later plays did not reach the stage.

When the filming of Pink Flamingos finished, Divine returned to San Francisco, where, along with fellow Dreamlander Mink Stole, he became the star in a number of small-budget plays at the Palace Theater as part of a drag troupe known as The Cockettes including Divine and Her Stimulating Studs, Divine Saves the World, Vice Palace, Journey to the Center of Uranus and The Heartbreak of Psoriasis.

Her brother Thomas also benefited from the marriage as he became house composer at Drury Lane, and wrote music for a number of plays and pantomimes over the next several years.

Her most recent stage appearance was at the sixth annual 24 Hour Plays alongside Jennifer Aniston, Rosie Perez, and Lili Taylor, in which six writers, six directors, twenty-four actors, and production crews have twenty-four hours to write, direct, and perform six ten-minute plays.

Her plays have been performed in theatres across Canada, as well as in the U. S. and Britain.

Her plays have been published by Scirocco Drama and Nuage Editions and are available through good bookstores and on Amazon.

Her plays include:

Her father, Abraham Quintanilla, Jr., is played by Edward James Olmos and Constance Marie plays Marcella Ofelia Samora – Quintanilla.

Her four earliest plays, Downstairs ( produced 1958 ), You've No Need to be Frightened, Having a Wonderful Time ( 1960 ), and Easy Death ( produced 1962 ) were performed by Oxford-based theatrical ensembles-student drama groups.

Xu was also a playwright, authoring the following four plays: The Heroine Mulan Goes to War in Her Father's Place ( 雌木蘭 Ci Mulan ): describes Hua Mulan, A Female Degree Holder ( 女狀元 Nüzhuangyuan ): The Adventures of the Intelligent Huang Chongjia ( 黃崇嘏 ), The History of the Mad Drum ( 狂鼓史 Kuanggu Shi ): crimes of Cao Cao, and A Zen Master's Dream of the Land of Green Jade ( 翠鄉夢 Cuixiang Meng ): a Buddhist story.

Her older brother, Nick Perri, is a lead guitarist formerly of Shinedown and Philly-based hard rock act Silvertide, and currently plays in SINAI.

The lost plays The Fatal Love and A Yorkshire Gentlewoman And Her Son were assigned to Chapman in Stationers ' Register entries in 1660.

BBC reviewed, " Mukerji plays the character of a middle class girl with great conviction ", and Udita Jhunjhunwala writing for Mid Day added, " Her expressions and acting are understated in a role that fits her like a glove.

Her father had turned out some one-act plays for the stock company, and encouraged Anita to work in the field herself.