Her first book, Under the Window ( 1879 ), a collection of simple, perfectly idyllic verses about children, was a bestseller.

Her pictures were in great demand, verses were written to her and books published about her.

" Her verses were as simple and moving as ancient ballads ; her drawings were as genuine in their medieval spirit as much more highly finished and competent works of Pre-Raphaelite art ," wrote critic William Gaunt in The Pre-Raphaelite Dream.

Her verses were preserved with those of Tibullus in the third book of elegies, the appendix tibulliana, and were for a long time attributed to him.

" Her first verses were evoked two years later by the scenery about Tavistock in Devonshire.

Her verses enjoyed tremendous success among readers and her first collection Fairies and Chimneys ( 1918 ) was reprinted more than twenty times over the next decade.

Her legend is recounted in the 29 verses of the Sequence, in which she resists pagan threats, bribery and torture from the pagan emperor Maximian.

Her pictures were in great demand, verses were written to her and books published about her, and she was the most talked-of person in London.

* The song was parodied in The Two Ronnies skit The Plumstead Ladies ' Male Voice Choir, with funny verses such as: " Her old man, next to you / Needs a damn good talking to / Knick-knack, paddy-whack, now she's in the club / He's off boozing down the pub "; and " This old man, he played nine / He's as bad as your's or mine / Dick, Jack, Harry, Mack, Trevor, Doug or Mike / All old men are all alike.

Her husband's absence at the war inspired her heroic verses and his death her elegiac poems.

Her verses were first published in 1924.

Often she published books as ' Mrs. Henry Head ' and most of Head's poems are dedicated to his wife ; ' Destroyers and other verses ', for example, is inscribed ' To Her without whose touch the strings would have been mute '.

Her producer was present and suggested she include a version of it on her 1970 album Whales & Nightingales.

Her known works include hymns to the goddess Inanna, the Exaltation of Inanna and In-nin sa-gur-ra.

Her works also include landscapes, portraits, garden settings and boating scenes.

Her cult titles include Sito (: wheat ) as the giver of food or corn / grain and Thesmophoros (, thesmos: divine order, unwritten law ) as a mark of the civilized existence of agricultural society.

Her works include:

Her film credits also include a featured role in Marked For Death opposite Steven Seagal, Pass The Ammo with Tim Curry, and the CBS feature 83 Hours Till Dawn with Peter Strauss and Robert Urich.

Her many memorable screen roles include a supporting role as Joan Crawford's wise-cracking friend in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ) for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and James Stewart's wistful secretary in Otto Preminger's then-explicit murder mystery, Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ).

Her films include The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation.

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 other recent credits include Funny Bones ( 1995 ) with Jerry Lewis and Oliver Platt, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells ( 2000 ) with Judi Dench and Cleo Laine, and Le Divorce ( 2003 ) by Merchant / Ivory with Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts.

Northern European works include Johannes Vermeer's The Lacemaker and The Astronomer ; Caspar David Friedrich's The Tree of Crows ; Rembrandt's The Supper at Emmaus, Bathsheba at Her Bath, and The Slaughtered Ox.

Her credits include the TV series Ready or Not, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Seasons of Love, and Andromeda as Trance Gemini, and the movies Night of the Twisters, and Dear America: So Far From Home.

Her declared priorities include the diversification of the United States-Mexico agenda, heavily concentrated on immigration and security issues, and the rebuilding of diplomatic relations with Cuba and Venezuela, which were heavily strained during the Fox administration.

Her film credits also include Robert Altman's Kansas City ( 1996 ), Robert Duvall's The Apostle ( 1997 ) and Richard E. Grant's Wah-Wah ( 2005 ).

Other prominent academics associated with the University include Geoffrey Bennington, the creator of the MA programme in Modern French Thought ( Derrida, Lyotard ); Homi K. Bhabha ( postcolonialism ); Rachel Bowlby ( feminism, Woolf, Freud ); Geoff Cloke FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Jonathan Dollimore ( Renaissance literature, gender and queer studies ); Katy Gardner ( social anthropology ); Gabriel Josipovici ( Dante, the Bible ); Michael Land FRS ( Animal Vision-Frink Medal )); Michael Lappert FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Alan Lehmann FRS ( Genetics and Genome Stability ); ( Laura Marcus ( Woolf ); John Murrell FRS ( Theoretical Chemistry ); Peter Nicholls ( Pound, modernism ); John Nixon FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry )); Laurence Pearl FRS ( Structural Biology ); Guy Richardson FRS ( Neuroscience ); Jacqueline Rose ( feminism, psychoanalysis ); Nicholas Royle ( modern literature and theory ; deconstruction ); Alan Sinfield ( Shakespeare, sexuality, queer theory ); Norman Vance ( Victorian, classical reception ); Richard Whatmore & Knud Haakonssen ( intellectual historians ); Gavin Ashenden ( Senior Lecturer in English, University Chaplain, and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ; Cedric Watts ( Conrad, Greene ); Marcus Wood ( postcolonialism ).

Her other television roles include recurring appearances as Marelene on Dharma & Greg, and Penny in two episodes of Dead Like Me.

Her other roles include parts in Barry Levinson's Toys and James L. Brooks ' As Good as It Gets.

Her many credits include Picnic, The Bad Seed, A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, A Family Affair, Barefoot in the Park, Butterflies Are Free, You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running, Ladies at the Alamo and The Cemetery Club.

Her other awards include the 1953 Theatre World Award for Picnic.

Her nominations include a 1996 Drama Desk Award for Northeast Local and Tony nominations for Butterflies Are Free ( play ), Invitation to a March, and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.

Her other light-based powers include laser blasts, photonic force fields and solid light pressor beams.

Her ancestry was said to include Scots-Irish, English, Irish, French Huguenot, and American Indian ( Tuscarora ).

Her other notable film roles include Sara in Runaway Train in 1985, Helen McCaffrey in the thriller Backdraft in 1991, her portrayal of the chillingly twisted nanny Peyton Flanders in the popular 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and as Wendy Torrance in Stephen King's 1997 television adaptation of The Shining.

Her books, which include her autobiography, The Life of Teresa of Jesus, and her seminal work, El Castillo Interior ( The Interior Castle ), are an integral part of the Spanish Renaissance literature as well as Christian mysticism and Christian meditation practices as she entails in her other important work Camino de Perfección ( The Way of Perfection ).

Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show, as Betsy in Taxi Driver, as Madeleine Spencer in Psych, as Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting, as Cybill Sheridan in Cybill, and as Phyllis Kroll in The L Word.

Her poetry consists of three elegies in the style of the Heroides of Ovid, and twenty-four sonnets that draw on the traditions of Neoplatonism and Petrarchism.

Her sudden death only three years after her father shocked the country and was mourned in many elegies.

Her compositions include sonnets, hendecasyllabic verse, and prose poetry.

Her last poetical work was performed at Stratford-on-Avon, where the quiet loveliness of the Warwickshire scenery and the associations with Shakespeare inspired her with some very beautiful sonnets.

* Her sonnets were published in divers Italian books of anthology.