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She and publishing
Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.
She encountered some difficulty in publishing the first book, since most publishers would only offer her a deal if she agreed to remove the stories from the internet.
She took newspaper jobs at the Appleton Daily Crescent and the Milwaukee Journal before publishing her first novel.
She had already sent Pippi Longstocking to the Bonniers publishing house but it was rejected.
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 later worked as a literary adviser to Habimah, the national theater, and an editor for the publishing company Sifriyat HaPoalim (" Workers ' Library ").
She began publishing fiction in Danish periodicals in 1905 under the pseudonym Osceola, the name of the Seminole leader, possibly inspired by her father's connection with Native Americans.
She later became an author and founded the publishing company Pomegranate Press in 1986.
She wrote countless letters on his behalf and knocked on any doors that could provide Henry with financial assistance or a publishing deal.
She wrote three children's books, Speaking Terms and The Sixth Seal ( both 1969 ) and Haphazard House ( 1983 ), before publishing adult fiction.
She became a bestselling author, eventually publishing about 40 books.
She worked with her husband's notes and comments to create the story of a man she had never met, publishing it after Alfred's death.
She was still fighting to regain these rights 30 years after ending her business relationship with them, but was ultimately denied the publishing rights.
She expressed that " this battle wasn't just one man's struggle with a publishing house, but was a battle to preserve free speech and to stop censorship ".
She began writing at an early age, publishing her first poem at the age of ten and compiling a collection of poetry at 15.
She also wanted her label to turn over the rights of her music, video work, and publishing interests, and destroy all of her recordings that were currently available to the label at the time of the lawsuit.
She also helped with finance for Sylvia Beach's bookshop Shakespeare and Company and certain publishing ventures, and started a film company Pool Group.
She responded to the Italian invasion of Ethiopia by publishing The New Times and Ethiopia News from 1936, and became a supporter of Haile Selassie.
She went into exile, to Germany, in 1908 after publishing " Finland and Socialism ", which called on the Finnish people to rise up against oppression within the Russian Empire.
She also helped popularize biofeedback by publishing a series of books, including New Mind, New body ( 1974 ) and Stress and the Art of Biofeedback ( 1977 ).
She later became wealthy by publishing her own memoirs about her final years with Puyi.
She returned to NYU, edited the university literary magazine, publishing poems by Charles Simic and Grace Schulman, and graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in Romance languages.
She gained renown for her poetry in her early twenties, publishing in local newspapers, and winning awards for her work.
The literary output of this time was huge, with many writers who later became famous ( such as Mao Dun, Lao She, Lu Xun and Bing Xin ) publishing their first works.

She and Reef
She was influenced in using native plant species from: her many successful Reef Point experiences ; studying the contemporary books from the U. S. and abroad advocating the advantages of native palettes ; and from visiting the influential British garden authors William Robinson at Gravetye Manor in Sussex, and Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Hall in Surrey, both in England.
She had been certified in scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef for the movie's underwater scenes.
She even described a new species ( Nembrotha rutilans, Pruvot-Fol, 1931 ) on the basis of a painted illustration in a book by William Saville-Kent, ( 1893 ) entitled " The Great Barrier Reef of Australia ".
She was lost on Sumner Point Reef, Rum Cay, on December 13, 1861.
She steamed around the tip of South America to her first station at Blunts Reef in California, where she saved 150 people when their ship ran aground in dense fog.
She also guided ships near Umatilla Reef and the Columbia River Bar.
She was wrecked In the early hours of December 20th 1946 when she was driven aground on Bombay Reef by a typhoon.

She and Point
She continued to make minor and frequently nostalgic period musicals such as Starlift, The West Point Story, On Moonlight Bay, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, and Tea For Two for Warner Brothers.
She appeared in several films throughout the decade including Holes ( 2003 ), the M. Night Shyamalan horror film The Village ( 2004 ), Vantage Point ( 2008 ), and Baby Mama ( 2008 ).
She also recorded a lecture for Vision, a set of artist's lectures released by Crown Point Press as a set of 6 LPs.
She was the inspiration for Mrs Bidlake in Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point, for Hermione Roddice in D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love, for Lady Caroline Bury in Graham Greene's It's a Battlefield, and for Lady Sybilline Quarrell in Alan Bennett's Forty Years On.
She later wrote three mystery novels with Liz Nickles: The Total Zone ( 1994 ), Breaking Point ( 1996 ), and Killer Instinct ( 1997 ).
She retreated into the safety of Confederate-controlled waters off Sewell's Point for the night, but had killed 400 enemy sailors and had lost two.
She is last seen in the season three finale " Turning Point ," in which the Green Goblin discovers Spider-Man's true identity.
She served 17 months in the army, as " Robert Shurtliff ", of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was wounded in 1782 and honorably discharged at West Point in 1783.
She is best known for her roles in films such as The Godfather Part III, Single White Female, Point of No Return, It Could Happen to You, and Jackie Brown.
She helped organize communities on both sides of the city and stopped the construction of the road, saving Fells Point and Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
She moved to ABC initially as a correspondent for the news-magazine show Turning Point ( 1993 97 ).
On May 5, 1945, at 5: 40 p. m., the U-853 torpedoed the collier, SS Black Point, en route to Boston, She was within sight of the United States Coast Guard lighthouse station at Point Judith.
She was elected Labour Party member of Parliament for Castle Point in Essex in 1997, but lost her seat in the 2001 election, to Robert Spink, the man she had defeated in 1997, by under 1, 000 votes.
She sneaks out to meet him and they have sex at a secluded make-out spot, referred to as " The Point ".
She was cremated ; her ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean, off San Pedro's Point Fermin Light, in California.
She also orders all of her remaining ground forces on the planet to retreat to Reflex Point for a last stand.
She also played one of the leads on Point Pleasant.
She attended Ohio State University for a short time, and then transferred to Point Park College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she performed roles in the professional theatre scene there, including the role of Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar at Pittsburgh Musical Theater.
She graduated from Point Park in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in theater arts.
She was born at her family's holiday home in Kirribilli Point in Australia.
Early reports of the area suggested the region was " thick with honeysuckle and sheoak ", and that the area from Somers to Point Leo contained " good soil, good grass, and open forest timbered with Gums wattle and She Oak trees ".

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