A teenage girl, Abigail Williams, is being sharply questioned by her minister uncle, the Reverend Samuel Parris, about a wild night affair in the woods in which she and some other girls had seemed to have had contact with these evil beings.

Besides a number of appearances in films produced by her company, Flower Films, including Charlie's Angels, Barrymore had a dramatic role in the comedy / drama Riding in Cars with Boys ( 2001 ), playing a teenage mother in a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father ( based on the real-life story of Beverly D ' Onofrio ).

Some researchers have taken up speculative views, such as Jerzy Strzelczyk, who assumed that in the light of contemporary concepts and habits of marriage of that time ( when as a rule marriages were contracted with teenage girls ) is assumed that Dobrawa had passed her early youth, so, it's probable that she was in her late teens or twenties.

Heathers picks up 20 years later when Veronica returns home to Sherwood, Ohio with her teenage daughter, who must contend with the next generation of mean girls, all named " Ashley ".

At her sentencing hearing, Olson's teenage daughter Leila, her pastor, and her husband spoke in her defense, while Olson's mother claimed on the stand that Olson had never been a part of the SLA and spoke against prosecutors and police she asserted had harassed the family.

Now in her late thirties, Pickford was unable to play the children, teenage spitfires and feisty young women so adored by her fans, nor could she play the sleekly elegant heroines of early sound.

A teenage girl named Podkayne " Poddy " Fries and her younger brother Clark leave their home on Mars to visit Earth, accompanied by their uncle.

Deal's musical background was folk music and country ; she had formed a country-folk band with her sister in her teenage years, and played covers of artists such as The Everly Brothers and Hank Williams.

Active as a singer since her teenage years, Sherrié initially recorded as one half of the duo Colourhaus, which also featured Phil Radford.

* In a comic The Catherine Tate Show sketch, Catherine Tate's teenage character Lauren Cooper accuses her English teacher ( played by David Tennant ) of being " the Doctor ".

Slayers follows the adventures of teenage sorceress Lina Inverse and her companions as they journey through their world.

Their teenage daughter Lydia ( Winona Ryder ) has an obsession with death which allows her to see the deceased couple.

After various appearances in film and television, Ryder continued her career with the cult film Heathers ( 1988 ), a controversial satire of teenage suicide and high school life, which drew Ryder further critical and commercial attention.

Xavier's New Mutants grew up and became X-Force, and the next generation of students began with Generation X, featuring Jubilee and other teenage mutants led and schooled by Banshee and former villainess Emma Frost at her Massachusetts Academy.

She was lured away from her house and held captive by a group of teenage girls.

** Six Jesuit priests — among them Ignacio Ellacuría, Segundo Montes, and Ignacio Martín-Baró — their housekeeper, and her teenage daughter, are murdered by U. S. trained Salvadoran soldiers.

Born into an observant Jewish family but an atheist by her teenage years, she was baptized on January 1, 1922 into the Roman Catholic Church.

By her teenage years, however, Edith had become an atheist.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

Several years of her life have been spent in the homeland, and she had written to friends to alert them of our coming.

A few years before his death Papa had agreed with Mama to make a joint will with her in which it would be provided that in the event of the death of either of them an accounting would be made to their children whereby each child would receive a bequest of $5000 cash.

Not seeing her dark intelligent face, one would have gauged the voice as that of a Westwood Village matron, ten years out of Iowa.

Though this sculpture must take place thirty-three years after her moment of decision, he could not conceive of her as a woman in her mid-fifties, old, wrinkled, broken in body and face by labor or worry.

Twenty years ago, she would have been known as a golf widow, and the sum of her manner was perhaps one of bereavement.

It was not as though she noted clearly that her nephews had not been to see her for ten years, not since their last journey eastward to witness their Uncle Izaak being lowered into the rocky soil ; ;

She fell asleep leaning on her hand, hearing the house creaking as though it were a living a private life of its own these two hundred years, hearing the birds rustling in their cages and the occasional whirring of wings as one of them landed on the table and walked across the newspaper to perch in the crook of her arm.

Twenty years ago her daughter Betsey Long, then 13 years of age, won the Grand Challenge Trophy, Children's Handling Class ( as they were called then ) at Westminster.

Betty is 16 years of age and had several wins to her credit last year.

Again, I at first misconstrued this disconcertingly intense communication, and I quickly cast through my mind to account for her being able to speak, with such utter conviction, of an opinion held by my father, now several years deceased.

Another veteran telephone operator was Edith Fleming Blackmer, who had been in the office forty years at the time of her death in 1960.

Such understanding helps to explain why one matron celebrating thirty-five years of married life could declare with some pride that her husband had `` never seen her entirely naked '', while another woman, boasting an equal number of years of married life, is proud of having `` shared the nudist way of life -- the really free, natural nude life -- for most of that period ''.

Houston police got to know Diane two years ago when the vice squad picked her up for questioning about a call girl ring.

One can apply these facts to Britain in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she spread her dominion over palm and pine, and they can be applied again to the United States in more recent years.

After her father's death, Lucy and her youngest sister lived for a few years with Winslow in Washington, D.C..

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.

Born into a privileged Unitarian family, Potter, along with her younger brother, Walter Bertram ( 1872 – 1918 ), grew up with few friends outside her large extended family.

Although she was provided with private art lessons, Potter preferred to develop her own style, particularly favouring watercolour.

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

Potter at fifteen years with her English Springer Spaniel | springer spaniel, Spot

It describes Potter ’ s maturing artistic and intellectual interests, her often amusing insights on the places she visited, and her unusual ability to observe nature and to describe it.

Potter was eclectic in her tastes ; collecting fossils, studying archeological artifacts from London excavations, and interested in entomology.

It was introduced by Massee because, as a female, Potter could not attend proceedings or read her paper.

Potter later gave her other mycological drawings and scientific drawings to the Armitt Museum and Library in Ambleside where mycologists still refer to them to identify fungi.

Findlay included many of Potter ’ s beautifully accurate fungi drawings in his Wayside & Woodland Fungi, thereby fulfilling her desire to one day have her fungi drawings published in a book.

In 1997 the Linnean Society issued a posthumous apology to Potter for the sexism displayed in its handling of her research.

Although Potter was aware of art and artistic trends, her drawing and her prose style were uniquely her own.

Potter was pleased by this success and determined to publish her own illustrated stories.

In 1900, Potter revised her tale about the four little rabbits, and fashioned a dummy book of it-it has been suggested, in imitation of Helen Bannerman's 1899 bestseller The Story of Little Black Sambo.

The firm declined Rawnsley's verse in favour of Potter's original prose, and Potter agreed to colour her pen and ink illustrations, choosing the then-new Hentschel three-colour process for reproducing her watercolours.

Potter used many real locations for her book illustrations, the Tower Bank Arms, Near Sawrey appears in The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck.

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