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She commissioned some of her artist and designer friends to embellish Mottisfont, always with an eye on its history, which fascinated her.
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She commissioned Bernard Crick, a left-wing professor of politics at the University of London, to complete a biography and asked Orwell's friends to co-operate.
She is believed to have commissioned the renowned Ponte della Maddalena where the Via Francigena crosses the river Serchio at Borgo a Mozzano just north of Lucca.
She granted a royal charter to the Muscovy Company, whose first governor was Sebastian Cabot, and commissioned a world atlas from Diogo Homem.
She commissioned works such as terracotta busts of the kings and queens of England from Michael Rysbrack, and supervised a more naturalistic design of the royal gardens by William Kent and Charles Bridgeman.
She was purchased by the U. S. Navy, on 11 April 1900, after rigorous tests and was commissioned on 12 October 1900 as USS Holland.
She had a voice over role as Mrs. Beaver in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but more recently she has starred in Jam and Jerusalem, written by Saunders, and Lark Rise to Candleford, of which the fourth series has just been commissioned.
She was commissioned to produce a piece by the government of Chile as a gift to the government of Brazil which she called " Icarus and Daedalus " ( United in Glory and Peace ).
She is also co-producing Planet Earth, a musical CD featuring settings of Canadian women's poetry by well known composers like Violet Archer, Barbara Pentland, Chester Duncan, Jana Skarecky, Paul McIntyre, and others ( performed, commissioned for, and premiered at the Wider Boundaries conference / festival ), together with Barbara Godard, Jana Skarecky, and Brenda Muller.
She travelled to the United States for the first time in 1929, to paint a commissioned portrait for Rufus Bush and to arrange a show of her work at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.
She lived in an Arts and Crafts style house she commissioned from Richard Norman Shaw in Frognal, London, although she spent summers in Rolleston, near Southwell.
She is a prolific composer, who composes many of the group's songs, and has been commissioned to create music for dance, choral, film, and stage productions.
She was purchased from the Eastern Steamship Line of Boston, Massachusetts and commissioned 14 December 1917, at the Boston Navy Yard.
" She commissioned a serial, Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill, for safety, but also Bill Brand, one of the edgiest political dramas ever, and us ... Before we had even finished making the first series, Verity commissioned the second.
She is said to have commissioned a verse biography of King Henry ; if she did, it is no longer extant.
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She had been picked up by the Russians, questioned in connection with some pamphlets, sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage.
She gave me the names of some people who would surely help pay for the flowers and might even march up to the monument with me.
She was forty-nine at this time, a lanky woman of breeding with an austere, narrow face which had the distinction of a steeple or some architecture that had been designed long ago for a stubborn sort of prayer.
She walked back to the house and entered, feeling herself returning, sensing some kind of opportunity in the empty building.
She hesitated, she hopped, she rolled and rocked, skipped and jumped, but in some two weeks she started to pace, From that time to this she has shown steady improvement and now looks like one of the classiest things on the grounds.
She patronized Greenwich Village artists for awhile, then put some money into a Broadway show which was successful ( terrible, but successful ).
She had been moving in cafe society as Lady Diana Harrington, a name that made some of the gossip columns.
She seemed so anxious to go on the stage that some of her friends in the cocktail circuit set up a practical joke.
She teamed up with another beauty, whose name has been lost to history, and commenced with some fiddling that would have made Nero envious.
She told police about the prospective tenant she had heard quarreling with her father some weeks before the murders, but she said she thought he was from out of town because she heard him mention something about talking to his partner.
She discussed in her letters to Winslow some of the questions that came to her as she studied alone.
She might have been talking to some of her friends about her husband if they've been having any trouble ''.
She had caught him off guard, no preparation, nothing certain but that ahead lay some kind of disaster.
She put the violin away and took out some linen, needles and yarn to while away the long, idle days in Budapest.
She said, `` Well, those are the really interesting things, but if you don't like any of those I can turn over some of my extra typing jobs to you, if you think you can type well enough ''.
She lived alone in the older part of the city, in one of those renovated houses whose brick facade some early settler had constructed.
She seemed to work to grow close to her son in the few days he spent at home, talking to him about some of the more pleasant moments of his childhood and then trying to talk to him about those things in which he alone was interested.
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