When she made it, the results, starring Margaret Rutherford, were popular and successful light comedies, but were disappointing to Christie herself ; nevertheless, Agatha Christie dedicated the novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side to Rutherford.

Foster suggests that women would have encountered suspicion about their own lives had they used same-sex love as a topic, and that some writers including Louise Labé, Charlotte Charke, and Margaret Fuller either changed the pronouns in their literary works to male, or made them ambiguous.

Whitehouse created Enfield's character Stavros a London-based Greek kebab shop owner, and then Loadsamoney an archetypal Essex boy made good in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s ; he also appeared as Enfield's sidekick Lance on Saturday Live.

As close friend Margaret Mead explained, " Anthropology made the first ‘ sense ’ that any ordered approach to life had ever made to Ruth Benedict " After working with Goldenweiser for a year, he sent her to work as a graduate student with Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1921.

Such allegations have been made against two recent British Prime ministers, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair.

This ban was imposed by the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher on 19 October 1988, the reason given being to " starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend " after the BBC interviewed Martin McGuinness and Adams had been the focus of a row over an edition of After Dark, an intended Channel 4 discussion programme which was never made.

In an interview for Today shortly after her departure from office in 1991, Margaret Thatcher said that Powell had " made a valid argument, if in sometimes regrettable terms.

Marion Crawford explained, " Impulsive and bright remarks she made became headlines and, taken out of their context, began to produce in the public eye an oddly distorted personality that bore little resemblance to the Margaret we knew.

Anne made a good impression in the Netherlands with her manners and studiousness, Margaret reported that she was well spoken and pleasant for her young age (" son josne eaige ").

Alexander III made similar provisions when arranging the marriage of his son Alexander to Margaret, daughter of Guy de Dampierre, Count of Flanders, probably also in 1281.

This, according to the oaths taken, made Margaret the heir at three years of age, but within weeks John Balliol tried to take the crown with the aid of John Comyn, the Red Comyn.

Many of his works have been made into popular films and television serials, including Les Chouans ( 1947 ), Le Père Goriot ( 1968 BBC mini-series ), and La Cousine Bette ( 1974 BBC mini-series, starring Margaret Tyzack and Helen Mirren ; 1998 film, starring Jessica Lange ).

There, they made an alliance with Margaret of Anjou, and Warwick agreed to restore Henry VI in return for French support in an invasion, which took place in late 1470.

It also may have made an ultimate battle to the death between Margaret and the House of York inevitable by making manifest Richard's dangerous popularity with the Commons.

At around the time of Edward's secret marriage, Warwick was negotiating an alliance with France in an effort to thwart a similar arrangement being made by his sworn enemy Margaret of Anjou, wife of the deposed Henry VI.

Elizabeth's mother, Elizabeth Woodville, made an alliance with Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry Tudor, who was the closest to Royalty the Lancastrian party possessed.

However, Margaret declined to let Prince Edward land in England or to land there herself until Warwick had established a firm government and made the country safe for them.

In 1063, his father made him the count of Maine in view of his engagement to Margaret.

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

Also, and derived from the film they made together, a complete radio show ( 18 June 1945 ) of The Canterville Ghost was broadcast which featured Laughton and Margaret O ' Brien.

She was later made to resign when it was claimed she had sent a similar email following the death of Princess Margaret.

His mother was Queen Margaret I of Denmark which made him the grandson of King Valdemar IV of Denmark.

A seal was made for him, and he wrote to Queen Margaret informing her that he was her son and demanded the restoration of his lands and titles.

He could speak not a single word of Danish and on questioning admitted he was a Prussian who was the son of peasants: Adolph and Margaret from Eger.

The Rigsråd ( Danish Thing ) elected Queen Margaret as " all powerful lady and mistress and the Kingdom of Denmark's Regent ".

In 1359 the young Princess Margaret of Denmark, the daughter of the Danish King Valdemar IV, was bethroted to Haakon in a marriage contract intended to be a part of a larger alliance treaty between Magnus and Valdemar.

In 1386, Queen Margaret I of Denmark, younger daughter of Valdemar IV of Denmark and Helvig of Schleswig, granted Schleswig as a hereditary fief under the Danish crown to Count Gerhard VI of Holstein-Rendsburg, grandson of Gerhard III, provided that he swore allegiance to her son King Oluf, although Schleswig actually still was held autonomously by the Count of Holstein-Rendsburg.

His father Peder Jensen Skjellerup was Danish and died when he was young ; his mother was Margaret Williamson, born in England.

With his first wife, the Danish noble Benedicta Ebbesdatter ( Galen, apparently not Hvide as otherwise alleged, b. c. 1165 / 70, d. 1200 ), whom he married before 1190 when yet living in Denmark, Sverker had at least one well-attested daughter, Helena Sverkersdotter, as well as possibly further children, such as Karl ( who died in adolescence at the latest, if ever lived ; but his existence is from the record that he is alleged to have married a daughter of king Sverre of Norway ), and possibly even two other daughters ( if they existed, their names are given by reconstructive history research as Margaret and Kristina – however they may just have been Sverker's first wife's kinswomen ).

Risskov derives its name from Riis Skov, a forest the southern part of which was granted to the city of Aarhus by Margaret I of Denmark as the first, Danish public forest.

In 1386, Queen Margaret I of Denmark, the younger daughter of Valdemar IV of Denmark and Helvig of Schleswig, gave Schleswig as a hereditary fief under the Danish crown to Count Gerhard VI of Holstein-Rendsburg, provided that he swore allegiance to her son King Oluf.

Starting with Margaret I of Denmark, the throne of Norway was held by a series of non-Norwegian kings ( usually perceived as Danish ) who variously held the throne to more than one Scandinavian countries, or of all of them.

Margaret Sambiria, in Danish: Margrethe Sambiria or Sambirsdatter, ( 1230 ?– 1282 ) was the Queen consort of Christopher I of Denmark, and acted as regent for Eric V of Denmark.

In 1263, an unresolved rivalry between Eric V and the adherents of the former king of Denmark, Abel, forced Margaret to write Pope Urban IV, asking him to allow women to inherit the Danish throne.

She manoeuvred to have the Norwegian Council recognize him as heir to the throne of Norway, in spite of his not being first in the line of succession, and he was installed as king of Norway in 1389, still with Margaret as his guardian.

In addition to the Students ' Representative Council, students are commonly members of one of the University's two students ' unions, the Glasgow University Union ( GUU ) and the Queen Margaret Union ( QMU ).

In 1986, the Greater London Council was abolished by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.

Maurer also claims that Margaret appeared to accept York's regency and asserts there is no substantial evidence to back up the long-standing belief that she was responsible for the Yorkists ' exclusion from the Great Council following Henry's recovery ( see below ).

In May 1455, just over five months after Henry VI recovered from a bout of mental illness and Richard of York's regency had ended, Margaret called for a Great Council from which the Yorkists were excluded.

For example, Chan Fung Fu-chun ( 陳馮富珍 ) ( aka Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General ) and Legislative Council member Regina Ip ( Ip Lau Suk Yee, 葉劉淑儀 ).

Southall is made up of five electoral wards for local council elections: Dormers Wells, Lady Margaret, Norwood Green, Southall Broadway and Southall Green, which all elect councillors to Ealing Council.

Members of the Borough Council are Council President Curt Stollen, Margaret Drozd, Nicholas Poliseno, Ed Seely and Frank LoSacco.

Members of the Borough Council are Council President Michael Schumacher, Angela Anthony, Jean Hunter, Audrey Mount, Margaret Rose and Daniel Wimer.

The last dignitary to stay in the royal bedrooms was Margaret Thatcher, who spent a night there with her husband Dennis during one of the European Council meetings held in the 1980s.

The current mayor is Jackie Holcombe and current Council members include Liz Johnson ( Mayor Pro Tem ), Michael Schlink, District 1, Liz Johnson, Steve Diehl, Margaret Broadwell, Steve Rao and Mark Stohlman.

On his mother's side, he is the grandson of Margaret ( Kent ) and Herbert Morrison, the London County Council leader and Labour cabinet minister.

Lee De Forest was born in 1873 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the son of Anna Margaret ( née Robbins ) and Henry Swift De Forest.

He often attended meetings of the Council of State ( which dealt with foreign affairs ) and was in correspondence with the Netherlands regent, Margaret of Parma.

He was Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet minister, successively holding the posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, and finally Leader of the House of Commons, Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President of the Council.

* Margaret Atwood, Toronto Council of Teachers of English, Question and Answer Session, May 1995

Upon the re-election at the New Zealand general election, 2002, as part of the Labour Party's election manifesto, the Attorney-General, Labour's Margaret Wilson, introduced the Supreme Court Bill to create the Supreme Court and abolish appeals to the Privy Council on 9 December 2002.

" Margaret Wilson argued in favour of the Bill, stating " When reviewing the legal needs of the community appeals to the Privy Council seemed increasingly anomalous.

He was elected as a councillor to the Lothian Regional Council in 1982 where he supported large rates rises in defiance of Margaret Thatcher's rate-capping laws and even threatened not to set a rate at all.

on Margaret Forster )' Contemporary Writers ( British Council )

He was an Opposition whip from 1964 and served under Edward Heath as Government Chief Whip ( 1970 – 73 ) and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland ( 1973 – 74 ), and Margaret Thatcher as Defence Secretary ( 1979 – 81 ), Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council ( 1981 – 82 ).

In the late 1970s the then Mayor of Retford and Chairman of Bassetlaw District Council, Gerry McNeill, hosted a visit from Princess Margaret to Retford.