After Dickens ' death, Margaret Oliphant deplored the turkey and plum pudding aspects of the book but admitted that in the days of its first publication it was regarded as " a new gospel " and noted that the book was unique in that it actually made people behave better.

This simple morality tale with its pathos and theme of redemption significantly redefined the " spirit " and importance of Christmas, since, as Margaret Oliphant recalled, it " moved us all those days ago as if it had been a new gospel.

Amongst the strongest critics of Froude's biographical work was novelist Margaret Oliphant, who wrote in the Contemporary Review of 1883 that biography ought to be the " art of moral portrait painting " and described the publication of Jane Carlyle's papers as the " betrayal and exposure of the secret of a woman ’ s weakness.

* Margaret Oliphant

It received acclaim from Blackmore's contemporary, Margaret Oliphant, and as well from later Victorian writers including Robert Louis Stevenson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Thomas Hardy.

* A memoire of the life of John Tulloch, Margaret Oliphant, 1888

* Margaret Oliphant – 19th century novelist and historical writer ; lived at Clarence Crescent.

* The Life Of Edward Irving by Margaret Oliphant Vol 1 & Vol 2

Margaret Oliphant, from the frontispiece of A Literary History of England from 1760 to 1825

The daughter of Francis W. Wilson ( c. 1788 – 1858 ), a clerk, and his wife, Margaret Oliphant ( c. 1789 – 1854 ), she was born at Wallyford, near Musselburgh, East Lothian, and spent her childhood at Lasswade ( near Dalkeith ), Glasgow and Liverpool.

Margaret Oliphant portrayed in 1881 by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys | Frederick Augustus Sandys.

* Works by Margaret Oliphant at Microsoft Books Live Search

* Margaret Oliphant at The Victorian Web

* The Margaret Oliphant Site

* Basketful of Fragments: Krystyna Weinstein's ' fictional autobiography ' of Margaret Oliphant

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* 1886 – Margaret Woodrow Wilson, American daughter of Woodrow Wilson ( d. 1944 )

The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew, played by Richard Wilson, and his long-suffering wife, Margaret, played by Annette Crosbie, in their battle against the trials of modern life.

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher accepted life peerages, although Douglas-Home had previously disclaimed his hereditary title as Earl of Home.

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

* May 11 – The Killing Time: Five Covenanters in Wigtown, Scotland, notably Margaret Wilson, are executed for refusing to swear an oath declaring King James of England, Scotland and Ireland as head of the church, becoming the ' Wigtown martyrs '.

* May 11 – Margaret Wilson and Margaret McLachlan, the Wigtown martyrs

On 2 January 1952, the 39-year-old Powell married 26-year-old Margaret Pamela Wilson, a former colleague from the Conservative Central Office, who provided him with the settled and happy family life that was essential to his political career.

His maternal grandparents were Benjamin Davis Wilson ( December 1, 1811 to March 11, 1878 ), mayor of Los Angeles in 1851 – 1852 and the namesake of Southern California's Mount Wilson, and his second wife, Margaret Hereford.

* 1924: The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson

By the second issue, the Dennis and Mr. Wilson series was re-christened Dennis the Menace and His Friends which now involved Dennis, Mr. Wilson and friends, Joey, Margaret and dog, Ruff.

Because of this, the Mr. Wilson stories were alternated with the three characters as Ruff, Joey and Margaret who each shared a # 1 issue with Dennis.

The current members of the parish council are: Jude Bissett, Bruce Corke, Peter Floyd, Judith Gray, Jane Hale, Dorothy Jones, Sarah Morris, Calvin Stubbs, Margaret Wallace, Linda Wilson & Stuart Wilson.

Eugenics was a concept adhered to by many thinkers in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s, such as Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Emile Zola, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling and Sidney Webb.

Amongst the hotel's more famous guests are King George V ; Jordan ’ s King Hussein ; U. S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush ( as well as then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama ); British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, and Tony Blair ; the Prince of Wales ; Elizabeth Taylor ; Richard Dreyfus ; Richard Gere ; and Madonna.

Margaret Wilson, who won the Pulitzer prize for fiction in 1924, was born in Traer.

During " The Killing Times " of the Covenanters in the 17th century, Margaret McLachlan, an elderly woman in her 60s, and Margaret Wilson, a teenager, were sentenced to be tied to stakes in the tidal channel of the River Bladnoch near its entrance to Wigtown Bay to be drowned by the incoming tide.

* Margaret Wilson ( Scottish martyr ), a 17th-century Covenanter and martyr for the Free Church in Scotland.

His mother, Margaret Mary " Peggy " ( née Burns ) worked as a cinema usherette, while his father, Haywood Stenton " John " Jones was a promotions officer for Barnardo's.

Born Allan George See in Mount Kisco, New York, the older of two children, born to Margaret ( née Shea ) See ( 1906-2004 ), who was a middle school dropout, who in turn worked for Reader's Digest.

Caron was born in Boulogne-sur-Seine, Seine ( now Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine ), France, the daughter of Margaret ( née Petit ), an American dancer on Broadway, and Claude Caron, a French chemist.

Margaret Meldrew ( née Pellow ) ( Annette Crosbie ) – Victor's long-suffering, tolerant and kind-hearted wife, Margaret tries to maintain a degree of calmness and to rise above her husband's frustrations.

Pippa Trench ( née Croaker ) ( Janine Duvitski ) – Patrick's wife sought friendly relations with the Meldrews and, after a while, became good friends with Margaret.

He was the only son and eldest of the three children of Alexander Edward ( Alec ) Cook ( 1906 – 1984 ), a colonial civil servant, and his wife Ethel Catherine Margaret, née Mayo ( 1908 – 1994 ).

Pepys was born in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, London on 23 February 1633, to John Pepys ( 1601 – 1680 ), a tailor, and Margaret Pepys ( née Kite ; d. 1667 ), daughter of a Whitechapel butcher.

More asked that his foster / adopted daughter Margaret Clement ( née Giggs ) be given his headless corpse to bury.

** Margaret Pemberton, née Hudson, English writer

Rickman was born in South Hammersmith, London, to a working-class family, the son of Margaret Doreen Rose ( née Bartlett ), a housewife, and Bernard Rickman, a factory worker.

He is married to Margaret ( née Leckie ).

Ramsay was married to Margaret Johnstone Marshall ( née Buchanan, daughter of George Stenenson Buchanan ) and had a daughter, Catherine Elizabeth ( Elska ) and a son, William George, who died at 40.

Born in London, Blunden was the eldest of the nine children of Charles Edmund Blunden ( 1871 – 1951 ) and his wife, Georgina Margaret née Tyler, who were joint-headteachers of a London school.

Margaret Rutherford was born in 1892 in Balham, the only child of William Rutherford Benn and his second wife Florence, née Nicholson.

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.

Rodolphe von Hofmannsthal, great-grandson of Hugo, is married to Lady Frances von Hofmannsthal, née Armstrong-Jones, daughter of the 1st Earl of Snowdon ( former husband of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon ) and his second wife, Lucy Mary Davies.

Douglas was born in Headington, Oxfordshire, the son of Professor Robert Langton Douglas and his wife Margaret Jane ( née Cannon ).

He was born in Tottenham, North London, England, the son of Cecelia Margaret ( née Newlove ) and Frederick Samuel Phillips, who worked at Glover and Main, manufacturers of cookers in Edmonton, London ; the " filthy, sulphurous " air of the factory gave him a weak heart and edema, leading to his death at the age of 44.

Benn's mother, Margaret Wedgwood Benn ( née Holmes ) ( 1897 – 1991 ), was a dedicated theologian, feminist and the founder President of the Congregational Federation.

Sarah, Duchess of York ( Sarah Margaret ; née Ferguson ; born 15 October 1959 ) is a British charity patron, spokesperson, writer, film producer, television personality and member of the British Royal Family.

* Mignot, Margaret ( née Bilotte ).

His mother, Margaret Hay ( née Neall ) was staying in the country without her father, Harry Hay, Sr .. His father was a mining engineer who had worked for Cecil Rhodes and the Guggenheim family.

Dame Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, DBE ( born 27 August 1932 ), née Pakenham, is an Anglo-Irish author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction, best known as Lady Antonia Fraser.

Pryce was born John Price in Carmel near Holywell, Wales, the son of Margaret Ellen ( née Williams ) and Isaac Price, a former coal miner who, along with his wife, ran a small general grocery shop.