In 1924 Nettie published Modern Australian Fiction, at that time the most important critical study of Australian literature.

Nettie published Henry Handel Richardson: A Study, which did a great deal to establish the reputation of Henry Handel Richardson ( the pen name of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson ) and her monumental trilogy The Fortunes of Richard Mahony.

In 1996, Ladd published a children's book, The Adventures of Little Nettie Windship.

Life's Testament, c. 1914, A Wreath, c. 1916, and Seven Tales, 1916, were also privately printed, and attracted no notice, but in 1919 a volume of Selected Poems was published by Gordon and Gotch in Brisbane which slowly made its way, helped by a literary group at Melbourne of whom Vance and Nettie Palmer and Frank Wilmot were the leaders.

The list includes Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman president of Harvard University ; Hanna Holborn Gray, the first woman president of a major research university ( University of Chicago ); modernist poets H. D., and Marianne Moore ; classics scholar Edith Hamilton ; social activist and feminist Grace Lee Boggs ; Nobel Peace Prize winner Emily Greene Balch ; geneticist Nettie Stevens ; artist Anne Truitt ; author Ellen Kushner ; federal judge Ilana Rovner ; economist Alice Rivlin ; personal finance reporter Jennifer Westhoven ; and movie actress Katharine Hepburn.

They had 5 children, Nettie, Ella, Richard, Alice Gertrude, and Robert E. Lee, the latter named for the King family friend, Robert E. Lee.

" Among the better-known contributors were the writers Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, Bernard O ' Dowd, Joseph Furphy, Miles Franklin, Harrison Owen, Robert Kaleski and Vance and Nettie Palmer, the cartoonists Livingston Hopkins (" Hop "), David Low, Phil May, D. H. Souter, Norman " Heth " Hetherington, and the illustrator and novelist Norman Lindsay.

He was well-served by his first biographer, his niece Nettie Palmer, whose Henry Bournes Higgins: A Memoir ( 1931 ) created an enduring Higgins mythology.

Vance and Nettie Palmer were two of Australia's best-known literary figures from the 1920s to the 1950s.

The conference also saw the establishment of a working party to thrash out details of the new group, consisting of Austen Brooks, Rosine de Bounevialle, Avril Walters and Nettie Bonner from the LEL and Philip Maxwell, Bernard Simmons and Gerald Kemp from the BNP.

In series 2 this was Annette Lynton (" Nettie ") and from series 3 onwards, TV-am weather girl Wincey Willis.

She later originated the role of Nettie in The Color Purple, the Broadway musical adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel of the same name, from November 2005 to mid-January 2006.

At the conference a working party was established to finalise details of the new group, consisting of Philip Maxwell, Bernard Simmons and Gerald Kemp from the BNP and Austen Brooks, Rosine de Bounevialle, Avril Walters and Nettie Bonner representing the LEL.

They include Granbury High School, STARS Academy, Transition Center ( BTC ), Granbury Middle School, Acton Middle School, Mambrino School, Brawner Intermediate, Oak Woods Intermediate, Crossland Ninth Grade Center, Acton Elementary, Nettie Baccus Elementary, and Emma Roberson Elementary.

Nick is visited in prison by Nettie Cavallo ( Coleen Gray ), a young woman who used to babysit his girls.

* H. A. Kellow, Queensland Poets ( Lond, 1930 ); T. I. Moore, Six Australian Poets ( Melb, 1942 ); C. H. Hadgraft, Queensland and its Writers ( Brisb, 1959 ); N. Macainsh, Nietzsche in Australia ( Munich, 1976 ); Southerly, 16 ( 1955 ), 35 ( 1975 ); Australian Literary Studies, 7 ( 1975-76 ), no 2 ; Quadrant, Mar-Apr 1975 ; Westerly, Mar 1975 ; Sydney Morning Herald, 19 Jan 1935, 17 Oct 1936, 4 May 1940, 16 May 1942, 22 May 1943 ; The Bulletin, 10 Aug 1938 ; W. Baylebridge manuscripts ( State Library of New South Wales ); H. M. Green manuscripts ( National Library of Australia ); Vance and Nettie Palmer papers ( National Library of Australia ); P. R. Stephensen correspondence ( State Library of New South Wales )

In 2011, the winers of the main five categories-fiction ( the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction ), non-fiction ( the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction ), poetry ( the CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry ), drama ( the Louis Esson Prize for Drama ), and young adult ( the Prize for Writing for Young Adults )-contested for the Victorian Prize for Literature.

Stone was asked to speak at and promote Temperance meetings because Stanton and Anthony were very interested in alcohol reform, and her best friend " Nettie " Brown, newly appointed pastor in the spring of 1853, was preaching against alcohol abuse.

While her brother Esmonde Higgins was a prominent early Australian Communist, neither Nettie nor Vance ever joined any political party: they were much more interested in broad social change.

Her father, William Beck, was a West Point graduate and retired U. S. Army Colonel, while her mother, Nettie ( Grove ) Beck was a school teacher and part-time newspaper correspondent.

She released her debut album, Love & Life, in September 2005 and recently completed a starring role as Nettie in the national tour of the Broadway musical The Color Purple.

Nettie also stars as a much more menacing and manipulative character, not to mention her newfound distinguishing accent.

Soon after, Nick is freed on parole at D ' Angelo's behest, and visits Nettie, pledging his love to her.

In 1994, she made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater, playing Nettie Fowler.

The blast instantly killed Rita Smith and her servant Nettie Brookshire.

Their last surviving daughter, Nettie, died on her 96th birthday in March 1989 in Vulcan, Alberta.

She was buried at 11 p. m. by her servant Bingley, family friend Major Eber Cave, and her two daughters Nettie and Mary Willie.

He married Nettie B. Bowen on October 10, 1867, at her home in Newport, New York.

Although that may be, serving as his comrade, Maj. Foxhall Daingerfield's, best man as Daingerfield's Nov., 1864 wedding, when Daingerfield said the part of the Episcopal service, to Nettie Gray, his bride, " I do thee with all my worldly good endow ," Conrad blurted out, " There goes DiVernon!

Edgerton was born in Fremont, Nebraska on April 6, 1903, the son of Mary Nettie Coe and Frank Eugene Edgerton, a direct descendant of Richard Edgerton, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut and a descendent of Governor William Bradford ( 1590 – 1657 ) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

The XY sex determination system was first described independently by Nettie Stevens and Edmund Beecher Wilson in 1905.

Edmund Beecher Wilson and Nettie Stevens are credited with discovering, in 1905, the chromosomal XY sex-determination system ; the fact that males have XY sex chromosomes and females have XX sex chromosomes.

Frederick's wife Henrietta ( Nettie ) was the daughter of Leander J. McCormick, a brother of Cyrus.

During the late 1930s-early 1940s, Leander McCormick-Goodhart, son of Frederick and Nettie, served as personal assistant to Ambassador Lord Lothian and supervisor of American Relief to Great Britain through the British embassy.

The other six council members are Markel Whittenton, Jim Newll, Nettie Davis, Jonny Davis, Mike Bryan, and Willie Jennings.

The Scott Covered Bridge, Shriver Covered Bridge, and Nettie Woods Covered Bridge are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Mike Moses Middle School, Nacogdoches High School, Nettie Marshall Elementary School, Raguet Elementary School and Thomas J. Rusk Elementary.

Mrs. Iva Linkous, Mrs. C. E. Ward, Mrs. Perdita Agee and Mrs. Nettie Meredith served as lunchroom personnel.

Later Nettie Maria Stevens was able to prove this hypothesis by examining the chromosomes of the fruit flies.

Beebe continued to battle depression during this trip to Kartabo, both over his earlier loss of Blair, and over the death of his mother Nettie, who had died shortly before the beginning of the expedition.

Though his parents, John and Nettie, seem to be happy, the peace proves to be a facade.

She was born October 27, 1904, in Fremont, Nebraska, the daughter of Mary Nettie Coe and Frank Eugene Edgerton, a direct descendant of Richard Edgerton, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut and a descendant of Governor William Bradford ( 1590 – 1657 ) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.