In October 1847, Lucy Stone gave her first public speech on the subject of women's rights, entitled The Province of Women, at her brother Bowman Stone's church in Gardner, Massachusetts.

Lucy Stone's portrait as it appeared in History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II, in 1881

On 23 May a great meeting was held in the deaconry of St. Lucy, and Desiderius was again importuned to accept the papacy but persisted in his refusal, threatening to return to his monastery in case of violence.

Watson has argued that Charles's refusal to reveal his marriage to Lucy was due to James's knowledge that Charles was a secret Catholic.

The study of Greek was the distinctive mark of boys destined to go to college, and Lucy Upton too expected to go to college and take the full classical course offered to men.

Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.

As they sit on the beach, Orville reminds Jeff of his promise to Aunt Lucy, to take care of him.

Although at first Freund did not want anything to do with television, it was the personal plea of both Lucy and Desi that convinced Freund to take the job.

The lively instrumental, " Linus and Lucy ", associated originally with A Charlie Brown Christmas, is used at the beginning of this cartoon as Linus and Lucy prepare a pumpkin to be a jack-o-lantern, as Linus mails his letter to The Great Pumpkin, and when Lucy wakes up at 4 AM to take Linus home from the pumpkin patch.

In Act 4, Scene 7, twelve of Joan's sixteen lines are cut ; the entire seven line speech where she says John Talbot refused to fight her because she is a woman ( ll. 37-43 ); the first three lines of her five line mockery of Lucy's listing of Talbot's titles ( ll. 72-75 ); and the first two lines of her four line speech where she mocks Lucy about to take over Talbot's position ( ll. 86-88 ).

* In an episode of The Simpsons, " Treehouse of Horror X ", Comic Book Guy uses the persona " The Collector " as a supervillain and kidnaps Lucy Lawless from a comicbook convention to take her back to his lair to marry her.

Saint Lucy is one of the few saints celebrated by members of the Lutheran Church among the Scandinavian peoples, who take part in Saint Lucy's Day celebrations that retain many elements of Germanic paganism.

Lucy ( Lucille Ball ) suggests that Fred take a trial run on the Staten Island Ferry, and that he fortify himself with seasickness pills.

* After Guld goes after Isamu ( who had stolen the YF-19 to take on the new X-9 Ghost Fighter ) a new scene features Col. Millard and Lucy staring at the night sky.

Oppenheimer left I Love Lucy in 1956 to take an executive post at NBC, where he produced a series of TV specials, including the " General Motors 50th Anniversary Show " ( 1957 ), " Ford Startime " ( 1959 ), " The Ten Commandments " ( 1959 ), and the " 1959 Emmy Awards.

In Seven Years of Highly Defective People, Adams says that Dogbert was a combination of Lucy, a beagle owned by his family when he was a child, and the dark side of his own personality, which he describes as the part that " wants to take over the world and make all the people personal servants ".

Marisa Tomei voiced the character of Raquel Smashenburn in the show's unaired pilot episode, but scheduling problems saw Lucy Liu take over the role for the actual series.

Much later on in the story, when the winter has come to an end and Aslan is preparing an army to take on the White Witch, Lucy and Susan find Tumnus as a statue in the Witch's castle and he is restored by Aslan, following all of the other Narnians to the battle as the Witch is defeated and killed.

The movie ends with Lucy ordering take out in her apartment with George making jokes about the size of the apartment.

The question of how the unwanted Lucy nevertheless keeps getting into Schroeder's house is never addressed ; presumably Schroeder's unseen parents do not take his dislike for her very seriously.

While the rings were retrieved, Lucy and the others got on a train to take Eustace and Jill to school, intending to use the rings on the way.

The events in The Horse and His Boy take place after the siblings are crowned, and before they return to England, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Queen Lucy is a young woman who rides to the aid of Archenland.

Danae, and occasionally Kate, are the only ones who can talk to Lucy, and all three of them are fully aware that the conversations only take place in their imaginations.

* Uma Thurman wears a similar suit in Kill Bill Volume 1 when she travels to Japan to take on an underworld boss and assassin played by Lucy Liu.

The village was used as a setting in the 1985 Merchant Ivory film " A Room with a View ", in the scene where Lucy and Cecil take a walk after their engagement party.

Fouts would arrive at Lucy's home at 8: 30 every morning, when Lucy would greet him with a hug, go to the stove, take the kettle, fill it with water from the sink, find two cups and tea bags from the cupboard, and brew and serve the tea.

With four younger children at home, Lucy stepped into her mother's role, and even after the brothers and sisters were grown, she was her father's comfort and stay until he died in 1879.

But even so Lucy could not give up her intellectual pursuits.

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

There is reason to suppose that Lucy would have made a record as publicly distinguished as her brother had it not been that her mother's death occurred just as she was about to enter college.

Lucy suspected that Myra would never have come home if Gregg, Myra's husband, hadn't gone out to fetch her.

It seemed to Lucy that all their married life, she and Jim had been doing nothing but rescue his sister from the constant crises that were her way of life.

whenever Lucy saw her, she tried, without noise or fuss, to give her the warmth she had never had from Myra.

Lucy knew her too well to find it impossible.

since Myra had always put most of Greg's money on her own back, Lucy suspected that no more than a few of that long row would be needed.

The closet was faintly fragrant with lavender, and as Lucy shut the door an unhappy memory slipped into her mind, like a lavender ghost: Greg's house, on the day he was buried, and the child, pale, silent, baffled, watching the funeral guests with panicky eyes.

On her way to the airport, on her way to Paris -- you bet, Lucy said to herself.

Was she thinking along the same lines Lucy was -- that it was quite possible Cathy might be left with her for good??

* Lucy Irvine ( b. 1956 ), writer, lived very briefley in the Summer Isles Hotel with her father, who owned it and the Hydroponicum.

Its main character, Lucy Snowe, travels abroad to teach in a boarding school in the fictional town of Villette, where she encounters a culture and religion different to her own, and where she falls in love with a man (' Paul Emanuel ') whom she cannot marry.

Another similarity to Jane Eyre was the use of aspects from her own life as inspiration for fictional events, in particular reworking the time she spent at the pensionnat in Brussels into Lucy teaching at the boarding school, and falling in love with Constantin Heger into Lucy falling in love with ' Paul Emanuel '.

Having lost her short term memory in a car crash, Lucy can only remember the current day's events until she falls asleep.

A Lucy Swift gave birth in 1771 to a baby, also named Lucy, who was christened a daughter of her mother and William Swift, but there is reason to believe the father was really Darwin.

Her Shakespearean heroines-Beatrice, Portia, Desdemona and Ophelia – were no less successful than her comic characters – Miss Hoyden, Biddy Tipkin, Lucy Lockit and Miss Prue.