I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

Her mother is the former Miss Stella Hayward.

His father Isamu, a member of a former samurai family from the Akita Prefecture, worked as the director of the Army's Physical Education Institute's lower secondary school, while his mother Shima came from a merchant's family living in Osaka.

His mother married a former governor of Syria, Lucius Marcius Philippus.

During 1228, Andrew's two sons started again to take back the former royal domains in their provinces, and they persuaded Andrew to confiscate the estates of the barons who had taken part in the conspiracy against their mother.

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 >

His mother, Abiah Folger, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on August 15, 1667, to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher and his wife Mary Morrill, a former indentured servant.

In 1972, her mother purchased a farm in New Zealand and moved the family there, but left Love in the United States under the care of her former stepfather and various friends due to her increasingly hostile behavior.

Bowman contacts his former girl friend, Betty Fernandez, appearing on her television screen by manipulating the tube, and in a more physical way to his elderly mother, who lies dying.

Instead, his mother and the sister of Kōtoku, the former Empress Kogyoku ascended to the throne under another name, Empress Saimei.

His father was a Cherokee Indian, and his mother was a former slave of mixed Cherokee, African-American, and French-American descent.

In 1989, von Trier's mother revealed on her deathbed that the man who he thought was his father was not, and that she had had a tryst with her former employer, Fritz Michael Hartmann ( 1909 – 2000 ), who descended from a long line of Roman Catholic classical musicians ( his grandfather was Emil Hartmann, his great grandfather J. P. E.

These are now independent and many of them are stronger than the former " mother " churches.

His father, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck ( Schönhausen, 13 November 1771 – 22 November 1845 ), was a Junker estate owner and a former Prussian military officer ; his mother, Wilhelmine Luise Mencken ( Potsdam, 24 February 1789 – Berlin ), the well-educated daughter of a senior government official in Berlin.

He left letters to Wilson's mother, Bowers ' mother, a string of notables including his former commander Sir George Egerton, his own mother and his wife.

But the Ravenswoods and the wealthy Ashtons, who now own the former Ravenswood lands, are enemies, and Lucie's mother forces her daughter to break her engagement to Edgar and marry the wealthy Sir Arthur Bucklaw.

The Jay Treaty of 1794, led by Hamilton, brought peace and trade with Britainwhile Madison, with strong support from Jefferson, wanted " to strangle the former mother country " without going to war.

As a result, former mother company Renault is AB Volvo's biggest shareholder with a 20 % stake ( in shares and voting rights ).

* Domitia Lepida, widow of Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus, mother of Valeria Messalina and former mother-in-law of Claudius

After Henri's death in 1520 the printing establishment was maintained by his former partner Simon de Colines who also married Robert's mother, the widow Estienne.

Adam of Bremen in Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum is unique in equating Cnut's mother ( for whom he also produces no name ) with the former queen of Sweden, wife of Eric the Victorious and by this marriage mother of Olof Skötkonung.

But since Adam is the only source to state the identity of Cnut's with Olof Skötkonung's mother, this is often seen as an error of Adam, and it is often assumed that Sweyn had two wives, the first being Cnut's mother, and the second being the former queen of Sweden.

Jewish tradition relates that Esther was the mother of a King Darius and so some try to identify Ahasuerus with Artaxerxes I and Esther with Kosmartydene.

" Esther 2: 7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful ; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

According to the Talmud there were also seven women who are counted as prophets whose message bears relevance for all generations: Sarah, Miriam, Devorah, Hannah ( mother of the prophet Samuel ), Abigail ( a wife of King David ), Huldah ( from the time of Jeremiah ), and Esther.

His mother, Esther Stoddard, daughter of the Rev.

However, Leeson's mother ( Esther Dale ) does not approve of her.

* Esther " Grandma " Walton ( Ellen Corby, appears regularly in season 1 until Corby's stroke midway through season 5 ; returns in the last episode of season 6 and remains through the end of season 7 ; then appears only occasionally in seasons 8 and 9 ( and subsequently in five of the six sequels ), John's mother

* Katherine Jackson ( born Katherine Esther Scruse on May 4, 1930 ) the mother of music superstars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson was born in the same county as Eufaula.

The following year Mills ' mother, Orra Boydston, and her sister, Esther Warner arrived.

* Esther Hunt ( 1751 – 1820 )-a pioneer who lived on America's frontier as a wife, a mother and a leader in her Quaker faith.

He was survived by his wife, the former Esther J. Quintana ; his mother, and a brother, William Denzal Smith.

mother had been a Villareal, and whose wife, Esther, was

Her mother encourages, or perhaps forces, her to see a psychiatrist, Dr. Gordon, whom Esther mistrusts because he is attractive and seems to be showing off a picture of his charming family rather than listening to her.

* Mrs. Greenwood, Esther ’ s mother, is a woman who only wants the best for Esther, but is not always sure how to go about giving her that.

* Mrs. Willard is Buddy Willard's mother, a dedicated homemaker, who is determined to set up Buddy and Esther.

Her mother, Ann ( née Cordell ), was a model, an actress, and a swimmer who appeared in several Esther Williams films.

" His mother, Rita, is also friends with Lamont's aunt Esther.

His mother died in childbirth one year after his birth, and his father died of pneumonia when Eddie was two, leaving him to be raised by his beloved grandmother, Esther Kantrowitz.

* Grace Zabriskie as Esther Pokrifki ( Paula's mother )

Esther Dyson's father is the physicist Freeman Dyson ; her mother is mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson ; and her brother is digital technology historian George Dyson.

The novel centers on four archetypal characters: Miss MacIntosh ; Vera's mother, the Opium Lady ; her trustee, Mr. Spitzer ; and Esther Longtree, the waitress.