Winslow, as his daughters Eleanor and Margaret recall, used to characterize her as `` our iron sister ''.

When the Achaeans entertained Wednesday last at their annual Carnival masquerade ball, Miss Margaret Pierson was chosen to rule over the festivities, presented at the Muncipal Auditorium and chosen as her ladies in waiting were Misses Clayton Nairne, Eleanor Eustis, Lynn Chapman, Irwin Leatherman of Robinsonville, Miss. and Helene Rowley.

Alexander had married Princess Margaret of England, a daughter of King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence, on 26 December 1251.

King Philip II of France claimed that certain properties in Normandy belonged to his half-sister, Margaret of France, widow of the young Henry, but Henry insisted that they had once belonged to Eleanor and would revert to her upon her son's death.

On 27 May 1234, Louis married Margaret of Provence ( 1221 – 21 December 1295 ), whose sister Eleanor later became the wife of Henry III of England.

A comic parody of Faust, it stars Cook as George Spigott ( The Devil ) who tempts Stanley Moon ( Moore ), a frustrated, short-order chef, with the promise of gaining his heart's desire – the unattainable beauty and waitress at his cafe, Margaret Spencer ( Eleanor Bron ) – in exchange for his soul, but repeatedly tricks him.

They had three daughters: Margaret Woodrow Wilson ( 1886 – 1944 ); Jessie Wilson ( 1887 – 1933 ); and Eleanor R. Wilson ( 1889 – 1967 ).

For further details, see Margaret Howell, The Children of King Henry III and Eleanor of Provence ( 1992 ).

Romantic themes have also found their way in historical narrative i. e. historical romances, by mostly female authors, starting from the Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and others in the 20th century, like Eleanor Hibbert and Philippa Gregory.

He was the son of John II, Duke of Brabant and his wife Margaret, daughter of King Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile.

Eleanor and Sanchia's youngest sister Beatrice would marry Charles I of Naples, while their oldest sister Margaret had married Louis IX of France.

Tudur Fychan married Margaret ferch Thomas of Is Coeod, of the native and Ancient Royal Houses of Wales, Margaret and her sister Ellen and Eleanor were descended from Angharad ferch Llywelyn, daughter of Llewellyn the Great.

( Margaret was the daughter of Thomas ap Llewelyn, Lord of Is Coed, South Wales, and his wife Eleanor ferch Philip.

Eleanor Charlotte Butler ( 11 May 1739 – 2 June 1829 ) was a member of one of the dynastic families of Ireland, the Butlers, the Earls ( and later Dukes ) of Ormond, who number amongst their ancestors Queen Anne Boleyn ( through her paternal grandmother Lady Margaret Butler ).

* Mary, Eleanor and Isabella of Austria, nieces of Margaret of Austria

His eldest son Thomas Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley, married Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of King Henry VII, and also Eleanor Nevill.

Lord Derby married Margaret Clifford, daughter of Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland, and his wife Eleanor, younger daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and his wife Mary Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII.

He and his wife had five children, Christopher Joseph McCarthy ( April 30, 1940 – April 30, 1940 ), Eleanor McCarthy Howell ( born October 30, 1947 ), Mary Abagail McCarthy ( April 29, 1949 – July 28, 1990 ), Michael Benet McCarthy ( born April 5, 1952 ) and Margaret Alice McCarthy Brown ( born July 17, 1956 ).

When Elizabeth's only brother Gilbert, 7th Earl of Hertford was killed at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 aged only 23 and leaving no surviving issue, his property was equally divided between his three full sisters, Elizabeth, Eleanor and Margaret.

Margaret then strikes Eleanor, Gloucester returns, and he and his wife leave together.

Those who survived to adulthood were Joan, her younger brother, Edward of Caernarfon ( later Edward II ), and four of her sisters: Eleanor, Margaret, Mary, and Elizabeth.

Following the death of their brother, Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, Margaret and her sisters, Elizabeth and Eleanor de Clare received a share of the inheritance.

During the period that Margaret Thatcher led the Conservative Party, the Monday Club were prolific publishers of booklets, pamphlets, policy papers, an occasional newspaper, Right Ahead, and a magazine Monday World edited for some years by Sir Adrian FitzGerald, Bart., Sam Swerling, and later, Eleanor Dodd.

The magazine publishes fiction by emerging writers alongside more recognizable names, such as Woody Allen, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, Alice Munro, Don DeLillo, Mary Gaitskill, and Edward Albee ; as well as essays, including ones from Mario Vargas Llosa, David Mamet, Steven Spielberg, and Salman Rushdie.

Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, Barbara Gowdy, Timothy Findley and Margaret Atwood have all produced works that are notable exemplars of this form.

* 1939 – Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet, novelist, critic and essayist

* The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood ( 1985 ).

** Margaret Atwood, Canadian novelist

* Oryx and Crake ( 2003 ), a speculative fiction novel by Margaret Atwood, occasionally makes mentions of the protagonist and his friend entertaining themselves by watching reality TV shows of live executions, Noodie News, frog squashing, graphic surgery, and child pornography.

* Margaret Atwood: Penelopiad

* The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood retells the story of Odysseus from the point of view of Penelope.

Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Atwood is the second of three children of Margaret Dorothy ( née Killam ), a former dietitian and nutritionist, and Carl Edmund Atwood, an entomologist.

In June 2011, Margaret Atwood was conferred with an honorary degree of Doctor of Literature ( honoris causa ) from the National University of Ireland, Galway.

In 1984, she was the subject of a documentary film by Michael Rubbo, Margaret Atwood: Once in August.

Margaret Atwood is part of a long line of women with feminist involvement: she is related to Mary Webster, who survived being hanged for witchcraft in Connecticut in the seventeenth century.

Margaret Atwood has repeatedly made observations about our relationships to animals in her works.

" ( 1978 ) – as recited by Margaret Atwood ; included in all three most recent editions of her " Selected Poems " as listed above ( US, CA, UK )

* The Poetry and Voice of Margaret Atwood ( 1977 )

* Margaret Atwood Reads “ Unearthing Suite ” ( 1985 )

* Margaret Atwood Reading From Her Poems ( 2005 )

* Carrington de Papp, I. Margaret Atwood and Her Works.

" Margaret Atwood and Chaucer: Truth and Lies ," in: Cahier Calin: Makers of the Middle Ages.

* Cooke, N. Margaret Atwood: A Biography.

Margaret Atwood: A Reference Guide, 1988 – 2005.

Margaret Atwood.

The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood.