The role led to other, minor roles, including that of Mildred Hubble in The Worst Witch, and in 1988 she moved to Paris to work on Valmont with Miloš Forman.

Her name is similar to that of Jill Murphy's character Mildred Hubble, although Pratchett says this was not intentional.

Mildred Hubble is the worst student at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches.

The novel begins with Mildred Hubble and the upcoming traditional assembly where all of the first-years are given their own black cats that they will teach to ride on their broomsticks with them.

Mildred Hubble returns to Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches for the Summer Term of her first year.

Mildred Hubble returns to Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches for her second year, determined to lose her embarrassing reputation as " the worst witch in the school ".

Mildred Hubble returns to Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches for the Summer Term of her second year.

Mildred Hubble is returning to Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches on the first day of her third year.

Ethel spots Mildred Hubble crash-landed in a tree and manages to help her steady herself.

The Worst Witch, a TV series based on the books, starring Georgina Sherrington and Felicity Jones as Mildred Hubble and Ethel Hallow respectively, was broadcast from 1998 to 2001.

Georgina Sherrington ( born 26 July 1985 ) is an actress best known for her portrayal of the character of Mildred Hubble in the children's series The Worst Witch ( 1998 – 2001 ), as well as the spin-off series Weirdsister College-The further Adventures of The Worst Witch ( 2001 ), a British / Canadian co-production between ITV and TV Ontario, screened on HBO in North America, ABC in Australia, and on various other networks worldwide.

The 1990s continued to see new writers join Puffin and in the 21st-century the brand still shows heroes and heroines familiar with children such as Artemis Fowl, Percy Jackson, Max Gordon, Mildred Hubble and Scarlett, while stars such as Kylie Minogue and Madonna have written for Puffin.

When it was no longer realistic that Mildred would still be at school, the series relocated her to a magical university in Cambridge and was retitled Weirdsister College: The Further Adventures of the Worst Witch, and saw the return of Felicity Jones as a reinvented Ethel Hallow.

As of the end of The Worst Witch to the Rescue, Mildred, Maud, Enid and Ethel are in the second ( Summer ) term of their third year at the Academy.

In The Worst Witch Strikes Again Maud grows jealous of Mildred and Enid's budding friendship and turns on Mildred, siding with the friendless and vindictive Ethel.

She makes her debut in The Worst Witch Strikes Again after she is transferred to Miss Cackle's Academy and Mildred is assigned to look after her, to the irritation of Miss Hardbroom.

As Beatty is giving his monologue, Mildred tries to fluff Montag's pillow and nearly discovers the book hidden underneath.

Mildred tries to cover up Montag's actions by claiming that, once a year, firemen bring home one book and read it aloud as a form of mocking past literature.

Mildred then turns to a page in the book that has the poem Dover Beach on it and assures that none of her friends will understand any of the words.

Montag yells at the women to go home and reflect on their empty lives and burns the poetry book while Mildred locks herself in the bathroom to take her pills.

* The Mildred Wirt Benson Website: biography, book lists, photographs and more, at the NancyDrewSleuth. com archive.

Set in Glendale, California, in the 1930s, the book is the story of middle-class housewife Mildred Pierce's attempts to maintain her family's social position during the Great Depression.

The book details the everyday life of Mildred Lathbury, a spinster in her thirties in 1950s England.

* Song " Good Morning to All " by Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill first published in the book " Song Stories for the Kindergarten "

In 1970, Social Studies students at Sunset High School under the supervision of teacher Mildred McDow researched and wrote the book " A History of Hayward ".

For this reason, there is a book called the Vocabulario aguaruna del Amazonas ( Aguaruna's Vocabulary of the Amazon ) written by Mildred L. Larson and published by SIL International in 1966.

With him on Mercury are: Helene deSilva, the attractive station commander with whom Jacob develops a relationship over the course of the book ; Fagin ; Pila Bubbacub, the library representative ; his assistant Culla ( a Pring ); Dr. Dwayne Kepler ( the head of the Sundiver expedition ); Dr. Mildred Martine ( a psychiatrist ); and the exuberant journalist Peter LaRoque.

As soon as Mildred is convinced that Dix's motives are honorable, she describes the story and confirms what he had suspected — the book is trash.

Enid ( introduced in the second book ) is a practical joker who is more likely than Mildred to get them all into trouble.

The film followed the plot of the first book of the series, portraying the incidents of Mildred turning herself invisible and turning Ethel into a pig, Miss Cackle's evil twin sister Agatha plotting to take over the school, and the Grand Wizard viewing the Halloween Broomstick formation ( sabotaged by Ethel's faulty broom she lent to Mildred ).

In the first book of the series, it is revealed without explanation that Ethel and Mildred were enemies prior to the story.

The film was based on the book Undercover Cat by Gordon and Mildred Gordon and was directed by Robert Stevenson.

A children's book was written about him: Old Bones, the Wonder Horse written by Mildred Mastin Pace and published by McGraw-Hill in 1955 with illustrations by Wesley Dennis.

In the final series, however it was clear that their cheerfulness was a façade and, in a particularly dark scene, Mildred hung herself " during a game of Happy Families ".

When Mildred got a job as a John Cort showgirl, Ruby and Byron were placed in a series of foster homes ( as many as four in a year ), from which Ruby often ran away.

Edward Stratemeyer hired Mildred Benson in 1926 to assist in expanding his roughly-drafted stories in order to satisfy increasing demand for his series.

After that, the Syndicate focused on mystery series aimed again at its younger base: the Hardy Boys, which first appeared in 1927, ghostwritten by Leslie McFarlane and others, and Nancy Drew, which first appeared in 1930, ghostwritten by Mildred Wirt Benson, Walter Karig, and others.

A notable example is Three's Company, a US remake of the British Man About the House: not only was the original show re-created ( with very few character or situation changes made, at least initially ), but both series had spin-offs based on the Ropers ( in the UK, George And Mildred, in the US, The Ropers ), and both series were eventually re-tooled into series based on the male lead ( in the UK, Robin's Nest, in the US, Three's a Crowd ).

Eight actors have played more than one character in the series: Nicholas Farrell appeared as Donald Fraser in The ABC Murders ( 1992 ) and then as Major Knighton in The Mystery of the Blue Train ( 2005 ), Simon Shepherd appeared as David Hall in " Jewel Robbery at The Grand Metropolitan " ( 1993 ) and then as Dr Rendell in Mrs McGinty's Dead ( 2008 ) and Carol MacReady appeared as Mildred Croft in Peril at End House ( 1990 ) and then as Miss Johnson in Cat Among the Pigeons ( 2008 ).

Norman Eshley had a previous guest role in the series two years earlier playing a different character, and was also a member of the main cast of the spin-off series George and Mildred in which, he played The Ropers ' snobbish neighbour Jeffrey Fourmile.

All six series have been released on DVD in the UK by Network DVD, as have George and Mildred and Robin's Nest.

Series 1 and 2 were released in Australia in 2004, but then suffered a delay in releasing further series due to contract re-negotiations ( the same problem affected releases of George and Mildred and Bless This House ).

From 1971-76, she was also a regular on the successful Rock Hudson detective series McMillan & Wife, playing the McMillans ' housekeeper, Mildred.

Later Franklin had regular roles in several television series, including Crossroads, in which she played Myrtle Cavendish ; the short-lived soap Castle Haven ; the British sitcom, George and Mildred as Mildred's mother Mrs Tremble, and Rising Damp as Rigsby's Aunt Maud.

The premise of this series had George and Mildred leaving their flat as depicted in Man About the House and moving to a modern, upmarket housing estate.

Like many sitcoms of the day, George and Mildred was also turned into a film, which was dedicated to actress Yootha Joyce who died suddenly in 1980, just as the cast had been looking forward to recording a sixth series.

They have a young son called Tristram, who gets on well with Mildred and George, and in series 3 a second child called Tarquin is born.

In the first series, George buys Mildred a Yorkshire Terrier called Truffles ( played by dog actor Pussy Galore ) after the Ropers are unable to adopt a child.

Featuring the brilliant arrangements of Eddie Sauter and often featuring Mildred Bailey as vocalist, this series of recordings were among the more sophisticated and elegant swing records of the era.

The series made its debut with Welles ' adaptation of Rebecca, with guest stars Margaret Sullavan and Mildred Natwick.