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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.
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She and commissioned
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 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.
She and works
She had, of course, been exposed to and enjoyed a music appreciation course which had included the better known classical works such as `` Tristan und Isolde '', `` Candide '', `` Oklahoma '', `` Nozze de Figaro '', the atomic age singers, Eileen Farrell, Elvis Presley and Geraldine Todd, as well as the curious rhythmic progressions of the Venusians, Capellan visual chromatics and the sonic concerti of the Altairians.
" She spent the next three years investigating the law of God according to the Bible, especially in the words and works of Jesus.
She also bought more than 400 works by Dutch artist Bart van der Leck, but his popularity did not take off like van Gogh's.
She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny.
She developed this in in Isis Unveiled ( 1877 ) and The Secret Doctrine ( 1888 ), her major works and exposition of her Theosophy.
Anna Pinney, a young woman who sometimes accompanied Anning while she collected, wrote: " She says the world has used her ill ... these men of learning have sucked her brains, and made a great deal of publishing works, of which she furnished the contents, while she derived none of the advantages.
She symbolizes regrowth when she helps the starving stranger ( see also Roman Charity, works of art based on the legend of a daughter as wet nurse to her dying father ).
She also employed other mystical ascetic works such as the Tractatus de oratione et meditatione of Saint Peter of Alcantara, and perhaps many of those upon which Saint Ignatius of Loyola based his Spiritual Exercises and possibly the Spiritual Exercises themselves.
She became acquainted with her husband, the poet and author Johann Christoph Gottsched, when she sent him some of her own works.
She wrote several popular comedies, of which Das Testament is the best, and translated The Spectator ( 9 volumes, 1739 – 1743 ), Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock ( 1744 ) and other English and French works.
She supports Lucien, a childlike young man who works for Mr. Collignon, the bullying neighborhood greengrocer ; by playing practical jokes on Collignon, whose confidence she undermines until he questions his own sanity.
She was showcased by the famed Japanese animation film company, Studio Ghibli, which is known for works such as Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.
She was on good terms with her mother-in-law, Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, with whom she discussed religious works, such as the one written by Mechtilde of Hackeborn.
She works with the Robert and Heather Urich Fund for Sarcoma Research at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
She has also published four collections of stories and three collections of unclassifiable short prose works.
She read the Odyssey at the age of nine and enjoyed the works of John Bunyan, especially his 1678 story The Pilgrim's Progress.
She engages in charitable works and attempts to guide her girls ' morals and to shape their characters, usually through experiments.
She also meets and becomes deeply involved with several characters: Rosa, a young nun who works in a shelter for battered prostitutes and is pregnant by Lola ; Rosa's mother ; Huma Rojo, the actress her son had admired ; and the drug-addicted Nina Cruz, Huma's co-star and lover.
She returned with some of her works near completion, but settled in Quebec to earn a living as a sketch artist while continuing to write.
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