The novel opens with the famous line, “ This is the saddest story I have ever heard .” Dowell explains that for nine years he, his wife Florence and their friends Captain Edward Ashburnham ( the “ good soldier ” of the book ’ s title ) and his wife Leonora had an ostensibly normal friendship while Edward and Florence sought treatment for their heart ailments at a spa in Nauheim, Germany.

Edward Ashburnham: Friend of the Dowells and husband of Leonora.

Captain John Underhill was one of three children of John Edward Underhill ( 1574 – 1608 ) and Leonora Honor Pawley.

Cecilia Helena Payne was one of three children born in Wendover, England to Emma Leonora Helena ( nee Pertz ) and Edward John Payne, a London barrister, historian and accomplished musician.

Elizabeth Kemble returned to Drury Lane for two seasons, playing Margaret in Philip Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts, Leonora in Edward Young's The Revenge, and Elvira in Love Makes a Man.

Edward and Leonora have a loveless, imbalanced marriage broken by his constant infidelities ( both of body and heart ) and Leonora ’ s attempts to control Edward ’ s affairs ( both financial and romantic ).

Florence ’ s affair with Edward leads her to commit suicide when she realizes that Edward is falling in love with his and Leonora ’ s young ward, Nancy Rufford, the daughter of Leonora's closest friend.

With that story told, Dowell moves on to tell the story of Edward and Leonora ’ s relationship, which appears normal but which is a power struggle that Leonora wins.

Edward ’ s philandering ends up costing them a fortune in bribes, blackmail and gifts for his lovers, leading Leonora to take control of Edward ’ s financial affairs.

Once Leonora knows that Edward intends to keep his passion for Nancy chaste, but only wants Nancy to continue to love him from afar, Leonora torments him by making this wish impossible — she pretends to offer to divorce him so he can marry Nancy, but informs Nancy of his sordid sexual history, destroying Nancy ’ s innocent love for him.

Nancy is only capable of repeating two things – a Latin phrase meaning “ I believe in an omnipotent God ” and the word “ shuttlecocks .” Dowell states that the story is sad because no one got what he wanted: Leonora wanted Edward but lost him and marries the normal ( but dull ) Rodney Bayham ; Edward wanted Nancy but lost her ; Dowell wanted a wife but has twice ended up a nurse to a sick woman, one a fake.

Leonora comes to resent Edward ’ s philandering as much for its effect on her life as on her marriage and asserts more and more control over Edward until he dies.

Dowell repeatedly affirms his lasting admiration for and exoneration of Edward, whilst Leonora endures a radical negativisation throughout the narrative.

The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly which had been used for the 1798 opera Léonore, ou L ’ amour conjugal by Pierre Gaveaux, and for the 1804 opera Leonora by Ferdinando Paer ( a score of which was owned by Beethoven ).

She would go on to portray Tosca, Countess Almaviva, Leonora, Giorgetta, and Madama Butterfly in some of the world ’ s most renowned houses.

Leonora O ’ Reilly ( 1870-1927 ) was an American feminist, suffragist, and trade union organizer.

Hayes renamed the ship the Leonora, ( the name of his favourite daughter ), painting her white in an effort to change her reputation from being the ‘ black ’ ship of the blackbirding trade.

In some he tells the story of Hayes that are based on first-hand experience although there may be some element of storytelling in his published accounts of his time with Bully Hayes: Captain ‘ Bully ’ Hayes, Concerning ‘ Bully ’ Hayes, The Wreck of the Leonora: A Memory of ' Bully ' Hayes.

His Leonor ( 1798 ) forms the basis for the libretto which Ludwig van Beethoven used for the opera Fidelio ; it was also set by Pierre Gaveaux as Léonore, ou L ’ amour conjugal, by Simon Mayr as L ' amor coniugale, and by Ferdinando Paer as Leonora.

* Leonora of England ( 1161 – 1214 ), wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile

He chose as his counselors Joseph F. Smith and George Q. Cannon, the latter being the nephew of his wife Leonora.

A nobleman native of Florence, Concini went to France with Maria de Medici, wife of Henri IV, and married the queen's lady-in-waiting, Leonora Dori, known as " Galigaï ".

Concini's wife, Leonora, was arrested, imprisoned in Blois and accused of sorcery.

He married as his second wife Dayang Leonora Margaret, eldest daughter of Vyner, the Rajah of Sarawak.

* Dayang Leonora Margaret, Countess of Inchcape, wife of firstly the Earl of Inchcape ( one son, Lord Tanlaw, and one daughter ) and, secondly of US Colonel Francis Parker Tompkins ( one son ).

He married his first wife, Gillian Leonora Strutt, with whom he had three children, John, David and Zara, they divorced however in 1959.

In addition to his brother, Orson Pratt and Sidney Rigdon, he was instrumental in introducing the Mormon faith to a number of future LDS leaders, including Frederick G. Williams, John Taylor and his wife Leonora, Isaac Morley and Joseph Fielding and his sisters, Mary and Mercy Fielding.

In April 1600, Leonora d ' Este, the more fortunate second wife of Gesualdo, wrote a letter to her brother, then Cardinal Alessandro d ' Este in Rome, in which she recommends Pomponio Nenna to him.

Zoltan killed his wives in grotesque distortions of their customs or habits ; Hortencia, who avoided Zoltan's abuse by secluding herself in her greenhouse, is stabbed with gardening tools and suffocated with mulch ; Victoria, an alcoholic, is killed when Zoltan impales her left eye with a wine bottle during an argument ; an overly-talkative third wife, Leonora, has her mouth gagged and her neck contorted in a torture device ; and finally ( in another of the game's most controversial film sequences ), the food-loving Regina is force-fed animal entrails through a funnel until she chokes to death.

In contrast his wife Leonora Christina has been admired because of her long time as a prisoner after his death.

Some years after becoming a member of the LDS church in 1830, he practiced plural marriage, taking Leonora Snow ( the older sister of Lorenzo and Eliza R. Snow ) and Hannah Blakesley ( also found as Blaixly or Blakeslee ) as his second and third wife in 1844 in Nauvoo, Illinois.

Upon the death of Ferdinand I with no male heir, the people might demand the crowning of the beloved Infante John as king, which would raise his wife to the throne, with grave consequences to herself ( Leonora ), hated as she was by the Portuguese people.

With the false imputation that his present wife María had been unfaithful to him, transmitted by Leonora through John Alfonso, Infanta John became so enraged that he stabbed her in Coimbra.

Leonora ( 1846 ) by William Henry Fry, the first European-styled " grand " opera composed in the United States of America, is based on Bulwer-Lytton's play The Lady of Lyons, as is Frederic Cowen's first opera Pauline ( 1876 ).

Critical SPR investigations into purported mediums and the exposure of fake mediums led to a number of resignations in the 1880s by Spiritualist members, but the Society continued to investigate mediums, studying Leonora Piper and Eusapia Palladino among others.

This gave the composer the opportunity to propose significant revisions, which were accomplished under his direction by the young librettist Leone Emanuele Bardare, and they are seen largely in the expansion of the role of Leonora.

Leonora had long carried on a relationship with the count of Ourém, who engaged in various intrigues with England and Castile, and who's influence was resented by the leaders of the aristocracy, while her tyrannical rule also aroused Rebellion of bitter opposition.

The performance was hampered by an off night for Leonora Braham as Rose Maybud and by George Grossmith's usual first night jitters, a week after which he fell dangerously ill and had to be replaced by his understudy, Henry Lytton, for almost three weeks.

* 1927: Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer

Félix was painted by many artists, including Diego Rivera, Leonor Fini, Leonora Carrington, Stanislao Lepri, Bridget Tichenor and Antoine Tzapoff.

The cienega itself is managed by the Santa Fe Botanical Garden as the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve.

' Art e Scienza ' exhibition with works by Eric Bainbridge, Alastair Brotchie, Anthony Caro, Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, Stephen Cox, Tony Cragg, Neil Cummings, Brian Eno, Barry Flanagan, Jeremy Gardiner, Eric Gidney, Jocelyn Godwin, Anthony Gormley, Paul Hayward, Allen Jones, Liliane Lijn, Peter Lowe, Kyeran Lyons, Conroy Maddox, Thomas Major, Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin, Alastair Morton, Hugh O ' Donnell, Andrew Owens, Digital Pictures, Mike Punt, Bridget Riley, Kurt Schwitters, Peter Sedgley, Jeffrey Steele, Paul Thomas, Philip West, and Alison Wilding.

She has recorded Tosca ( also made into a film in 2001, directed by the French director Benoît Jacquot ) and Leonora in Il trovatore for EMI and sang in her first Tosca at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 2006.

Khnopff accepted this commission but destroyed the work later because the famous soprano Rose Caron was offended by the imaginary portrait of Leonora d ' Este that Khnopff had designed to adorn the cover and in which Caron believed to recognise her own face.

" by Leonora Davidson Cohen Rosenfield

Leonora da Tolletto, Centro de Musique Ancienne di Genevra / Studio di Musica Rinascimentale di Palermo / Schola " Jacopo da Bologna ", conducted by Gabriel Garrido, ( TACTUS TC 500301 ).