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In the biography, The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina, historian Gerda Lerner writes that “ It never occurred to that she should abide by the superior judgment of her male relatives or that anyone might consider her inferior, simply for being a girl .” More so than her elder sister ( and later, fellow abolitionist ), Sarah, Angelina seemed to be naturally inquisitive and outspoken, a trait which often offended her rather traditional family and friends.
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Because Bright's speeches were so much a part of him, there are long and numerous quotations, which, far from making the biography diffuse, help to give us the feel of the man.
( The only critical edition of Ibn Sina's autobiography, supplemented with material from a biography by his student Abu ' Ubayd al-Juzjani.
The rest of Aeneas's biography is gleaned from Livy: Aeneas was victorious but Latinus died in the war.
According to 20th-century scholar Walther Ludwig, the poems were spuriously inserted into an early biography of Plato sometime between 250 BC and 100 BC and adopted by later writers from this source.
In addition to the scarcely documented and confirmed biography of Cuyp ’ s life, and even more so than his amalgamated style from his three main influences, there are yet other factors that have led to the misattribution and confusion over Aelbert Cuyp ’ s works for hundreds of years.
In Philip Norman's biography it is stated that his mother's family claimed to be descended from the English navigator Francis Drake.
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There survives no ancient biography of Catullus: his life has to be pieced together from scattered references to him in other ancient authors and from his poems.
* God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church by Caroline Fraser ( 2000 ), a biography of Mary Baker Eddy and a history of the Christian Science church from its founding to the present day, with a detailed section on the " child cases " of the 1980s.
Richard Zacks in the biography The Pirate Hunter ( 2002 ) says Kidd came from Dundee.
Other miracles recounted in Raymond of Capua's biography include her reception of the stigmata and her receiving communion from Christ himself.
In other words, by the simple fact that he was regarded as a hero, de Gozon was identified with a category, an archetype, which equipped him with a mythical biography from which it was impossible to omit combat with a reptilian monster.
Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) was said by Orson Welles to not be a biography of William Randolph Hearst, but a composite of many people from that era.
" The news reached readers of The New York Times the next day ; Victor K. McElheny, in researching his biography, " Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution ", found a clipping of a six-paragraph New York Times article written from London and dated 16 May 1953 with the headline " Form of ` Life Unit ' in Cell Is Scanned.
The success of the work bears comparison with his achievements in opera, but his comparative silence during the period from 1832 to his death in 1868 makes his biography appear almost like the narrative of two lives — the life of swift triumph and the long life of seclusion, of which biographers give us pictures in stories of the composer's cynical wit, his speculations in fish culture, his mask of humility and indifference.
This last possibility seems to be supported by the 2007 oral biography of Thompson, which states that the term is taken from a song by Booker ; though, it does not explain why Thompson or Cardoso would have chosen the term to describe Thompson's journalism.
He viewed the world from outside the charmed circle of aristocratic rulers, protesting against their injustices in a tone of voice that has been described as having a " grumpy quality redeemed by a gaunt dignity " but, as stated in the biography section, he could also change to suit the audience.
* The Humanae Vitae controversy, chapter from George Weigel's biography of Karol Wojtyła
From the first Africans that were brought to Lagos for sale in 1444 ( see his contemporary biography by Zurara ), he received from the merchants the value corresponding to the fifth part ( o quinto ) as the expedition had been sponsored by the shipowners.
The traditional accounts of his biography describe the beginnings of his life as a public teacher and leader of the Jewish people from his 36th birthday.
In Pola Baytleman ’ s biography on Albéniz, she discerns four characteristics of the music from the middle period as follows: “ 1.
Joseph Goebbels: Life and Death, Palgrave Macmillan ; biography based partly on his diary from 1923 to 1945 released in recent years from former Soviet archives.
Bolsec was banished from the city, and after Calvin ’ s death, he wrote a biography which severely maligned Calvin ’ s character.
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In the context of the global struggle for the release of political prisoners in our country, our movement took a deliberate decision to profile Nelson Mandela as the representative personality of these prisoners, and therefore to use his personal political biography, including the persecution of his then wife, Winnie Mandela, dramatically to present to the world and the South African community the brutality of the apartheid system.
In her biography of Harold Washington, Florence Hamlish Levinsohn surmises that the three years Washington spent fighting for his country in the South Pacific while experiencing racial prejudice and discrimination helped shape his views on racial justice in the mayoral run to come.
* Ivor Novello biography on BBC South East Wales
For an example of the form that morganatic unions tend to take amongst African royalty, we have only to look at the biography of the continent's favourite son: President Nelson Mandela, the former leader of South Africa.
* Bartlett, Irving H. John C. Calhoun: A Biography ( 1994 ), 413pp, the best one-volume scholarly biography ; Bartlett, while hostile to slavery, portrays Calhoun as a principled, consistent, and often admirable champion of slavery and the South.
The public memory of Francis Marion has been shaped in large part by the first biography about him, " The Life of General Francis Marion " written by M. L. Weems ( also known as Parson Weems, 1756 – 1825 ) based on the memoirs of South Carolina officer Peter Horry.
He is also the author of Last Orders at the Liars ' Bar, the official biography of The Beautiful South, and Stay Sonic, a book giving background history for the Sega character Sonic the Hedgehog.
The biography sheds light upon what ' really ' happened to Captain Sawyer on HMS Renown ( including a confession that Hornblower pushed Captain Sawyer down the hatchway ), as well as subsequent careers of Lord Hornblower's descendants, ending with the present Lord Hornblower's emigration to Apartheid South Africa in the late 1960s.
** Bonwick transcripts, biography ( State Library of New South Wales ).
Hagiographies continued to be written, adapted and translated: for example, The Life of Saint Audrey, Eadmer's contemporary biography of Anselm of Canterbury, and the South English Legendary.
He developed an interest in biography and published Augustus Baldwin Longstreet: A Study in the Development of Culture in the South in 1925 and published a biography of Methodist Church leader John Wesley in 1930.
No sooner was he out than he produced a biography of Dr. Robert South, former head of Westminster School.
* Bonwick transcripts, biography, vol 3 ( State Library of New South Wales ).
In 1948, Mirrlees moved to South Africa and remained there until 1963, when the first volume of her " extravagant biography " of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton was published ( the second volume is unpublished ).
According to his biography, he published " some of the finest haiku penned by well-off pre-teens in all of South Carolina's lowcountry ".
In August 1919 a Columbia faculty member named Raymond M. Weaver, doing research for what would become the first biography of Melville, paid a visit to his granddaughter Eleanor Melville Metcalf at her South Orange, New Jersey home.
Literary scholar Vincent Carretta argued in a 2005 biography that Equiano was born in colonial South Carolina, not in Africa.
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It was at this time that the crew was informed of the John Brown Raid and, according to Parker's biography, he had already come to the conclusion that civil war between the North and South was inevitable.
At this time he began work on his authoritative biography of the South African Prime Minister Jan Smuts, which appeared in two volumes in 1962 and 1968, and editing for publication, with Jean van der Poel, the first four volumes of the Smuts papers.
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Bancroft was the author of two well-regarded books on the South, " Slave-Trading in the Old South ," and " A sketch of the Negro in politics, especially in South Carolina and Mississippi " He also wrote a biography of William H. Seward.
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