Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

`` Time for books '', she yelled, jingling a little five-and-dime store bell in her right hand.

The books of the school hold a memorial to her ; ;

Catherine Marshall LeSourd, the insight that has made her books world-famous and Norm Mullendore, the keen perception of an advertising executive.

The dialogue is sharp, witty and candid -- typical `` don't eat the daisies '' material -- which has stamped the author throughout her books and plays, and it was obvious that the Theatre-by-the-Sea audience liked it.

Pictures in old Latin books returned to her: the Appian Way Today, the Colosseum, the Arch of Constantine.

She would see them, looking just as they had in the books, and this would make up a part of her delight.

Many of the settings for Agatha Christie ’ s books were directly inspired by the many archaeological field seasons spent in the Middle East on the sites managed by her second husband Max Mallowan.

Her time spent at the many locations featured in her books is very apparent by the extreme detail in which she describes them.

One such site featured in her books is the temple site of Abu Simbel in her book Death on the Nile, as well as the great detail in which she describes life at the dig site in her book Murder in Mesopotamia.

Of the characters in her books, Christie has often showcased the archaeologist and experts in Middle Eastern cultures and artifacts.

Christie ’ s life within the archaeological world not only shaped her settings and characters for her books but also in the issues she highlights.

During the war, Nin sent her books to Frances Steloff of the Gotham Book Mart in New York for safekeeping.

Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

She continued to write, illustrate and design spin-off merchandise based on her children ’ s books for Warne until the duties of land management and diminishing eyesight made it difficult to continue.

Working with Norman Warne as her editor, Potter published two or three little books each year for a total of twenty-three books.

Potter continued creating her little books until after the First World War when her energies were increasingly directed toward her farming, sheep-breeding and land conservation.

The immense popularity of Potter ’ s books was based on the lively quality of her illustrations, the non-didactic nature of her stories, the depiction of the rural countryside, and the imaginative qualities she lent to her animal characters.

She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

He treats her like she was dirt.

He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

`` I saw your fire '', she said, speaking slowly, making an effort to control her anger.

She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.

He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.

He side-stepped her blow and she fell, stumbling against the gelding.

He watched the girl until she had gone into the trees, and waited until he couldn't hear the sound of her horse any longer, then went up to where the children were sleeping.

If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it.

She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

Then she turned the station wagon around and headed it back down the hill, with the village as her ostensible destination.

As she drove, she thought about her plan.

That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.

Here, she dropped the keys on a small table beside the door and went upstairs to her bedroom.

I had no idea of what subjects one discussed when alone with a girl, or how one behaved: Should I hold her hand while walking or only when crossing the street??

She discussed in her letters to Winslow some of the questions that came to her as she studied alone.

He asked, trying to touch a part of her life Alberto hadn't discussed ; ;

Potter ’ s country life and her farming has also been widely discussed in the work of Susan Denyer and by other authors in the publications of The National Trust.

A much different theory is briefly discussed by Fabricius and elaborated more by Helga Bruhn in her book " Dannebrog " from 1949.

Her sister Millicent recalled Elizabeth ’ s weekly lectures, “ Talks on Things in General ”, when her younger siblings would gather her while she discussed politics and current affairs from Garibaldi to Macauley ’ s History of England.

In her three-headed representations, discussed above, Hecate often has one or more animal heads, including cow, dog, boar, serpent and horse.

Because of her outstanding intellect, she often discussed the classics and the affairs of state with ambassadors.

So unpopular was her campaign among fellow politicians that when she introduced the first bill proposing to liberalise the law on contraception into the senate, no other member would agree to ' second ' the initiative and so it could not be further discussed.

Classics professor Froma Zeitlin of Princeton University discussed misandry in her article titled " Patterns of Gender in Aeschylean Drama: Seven against Thebes and the Danaid Trilogy.

Balls occur in her novels and are discussed in her letters, but specifics are few.

She was a dealer in dolls, and her letters discussed the quantity and type of doll to ship.

In his autobiography, he discussed the years of problems they had experienced because of Leigh's illness: " Throughout her possession by that uncannily evil monster, manic depression, with its deadly ever-tightening spirals, she retained her own individual canniness – an ability to disguise her true mental condition from almost all except me, for whom she could hardly be expected to take the trouble.

" He recalled a conversation with Margaret, in which she discussed her public notoriety, saying, " It was inevitable: when there are two sisters and one is the Queen, who must be the source of honour and all that is good, while the other must be the focus of the most creative malice, the evil sister.

They later discussed teaching the " Gilbreth system " of motion study to members of industry, but it was not until after her husband's death that she created a formal motion study course.

In the interview, Judd discussed her efforts to raise awareness about how conflict minerals fuel sexual violence in Congo.

In 1979 an annotated edition of Julian's work was published, and after this her book was widely sold and discussed, at a time of renewed spiritual searching by many.

Her father allowed her to attend meetings of the council from the age of 14 but never discussed the affairs of state with her.

She was on good terms with her mother-in-law, Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, with whom she discussed religious works, such as the one written by Mechtilde of Hackeborn.