She later had her own series on a radio show sponsored by a local restaurant that paid her a " salary " in food.

She also starred in ads for Candie's shoes and Gitano jeans, who also sponsored her 1998 – 1999 Come On Over Tour.

She sponsored the Enconium Emmae Reginae, a work which eulogised her and attacked Harold, especially for arranging the murder of her son by Æthelred, Alfred Atheling, in 1036.

She loved dancing and pageants, activities often frowned upon in Presbyterian Scotland, but for which she found a vibrant outlet in Jacobean London, where she created a " rich and hospitable " cultural climate at the royal court, became an enthusiastic playgoer, and sponsored lavish masques.

She is the chair of the privately sponsored organization, Children of the Night, dedicated to rescuing America's children from prostitution.

She encouraged him to sign up for a city-wide debating competition sponsored by the New York Times.

She informally adopted a young Albanian boy named Rexh Meta, who she claimed saved her life on a dangerous mountain trek ; she later sponsored his education at Oxford University in England.

She returned to painting on canvas and developed a large body of work which was included in a retrospective, sponsored by the Arts Council in 1991, and exhibited in the R. H. A.

She and Johnny worked together on a touring cookery show, sponsored by the Gas Council, to show how gas could be used easily in the kitchen, and as their fame increased, Fanny ’ s shows transferred to television, where she enjoyed 20 years of success.

She won The Damon Runyon Award for outstanding contributions to journalism in 2000, and became the first Mary Alice Davis Lectureship speaker ( sponsored by the School of Journalism and the Center for American History ) at The University of Texas at Austin in 2005.

She was also sponsored by a newspaper, the Baltimore Post, which tried to create a rivalry between her and Ederle in the weeks spent training off the French coast.

" She later sponsored the Accountability in Government Contracting Act of 2007, approved unanimously by the Senate, which would create more competition between military contractors.

She and fellow Maine Senator Susan Collins sponsored a motion that would have allowed the Senate to vote separately on the charges and the remedy — a " finding of fact " resolution.

She successfully sponsored legislation providing for the early childhood education program.

She sponsored the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program Reauthorization Act of 2007, which helped low-income, underinsured and uninsured women pay for cervical and breast cancer-related medical services.

She is a supporter of homeopathy, having signed an early day motion in support of its continued funding on the National Health Service sponsored by Conservative MP David Tredinnick.

She became a junior minister in 1998 and was made Minister for Universities in 2001, where she sponsored the controversial Higher Education Act 2004, and remained there until 2003 when she was made Children's Minister.

She also gave other lectures on political, economic and social issues at conventions sponsored by powerful black institutions.

She sang frequently in the Musica Viva concert series sponsored by the New York Unitarian Church of All Souls during the 1980s.

She insisted on being sponsored by Robert Smillie and her old friend, James Maxton to be introduced to the commons, rather than by the leadership's preferred choice of sponsors.

She has been sponsored by the National Arts Collection Fund at the Royal Geographical Society, and had provided several of the annual talks for The National Trust at The Royal Festival Hall.

She led the parliamentary campaign for the introduction of paid parental leave from Opposition and as a Minister sponsored the legislation to introduce 12 weeks paid parental leave in 2002.

She began with her twice-a-week NBC series, Kate Smith Sings ( quickly expanded to six shows a week ), followed by a series of shows for CBS: Kate Smith and Her Swanee Music ( 1931 – 33 ), sponsored by La Palina Cigars ; The Kate Smith Matinee ( 1934 – 35 ); The Kate Smith New Star Revue ( 1934 – 35 ); Kate Smith's Coffee Time ( 1935 – 36 ), sponsored by A & P ; and The Kate Smith A & P Bandwagon ( 1936 – 37 ).

She was one of the first women to write in the genre, and paved the way for many other female writers in speculative fiction.

She was also one of the first major science fiction writers to take slash fiction and its cultural and literary implications seriously.

* " Sheldon was simply one of the best short-story writers of our day .... She has already had an enormous impact on upcoming generations of SF writers.

She helps Christine dispel her own self-consciousness and the negative thoughts of past writers.

She has been influenced by fantasy writers like J. R. R.

She later became one of the first independent female writers in Germany.

" She cites the goals of feminist criticism as: ( 1 ) To develop and uncover a female tradition of writing, ( 2 ) to interpret symbolism of women's writing so that it will not be lost or ignored by the male point of view, ( 3 ) to rediscover old texts, ( 4 ) to analyze women writers and their writings from a female perspective, ( 5 ) to resist sexism in literature, and ( 6 ) to increase awareness of the sexual politics of language and style.

She has written more than fifty novels including the much loved " Flambards " series of pony stories, for which she won both the 1969 Carnegie Medal in Literature from the Library Association and the 1970 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, judged by a panel of British children's writers.

She is considered by many to be one of the most important francophone writers in Canadian history and one of the most influential Canadian authors.

" She claims the NBA has become irrelevant to average readers and of more interest to professional writers.

" The Divine ", the " dream princess of eternity ", the " Sarah Bernhardt of films ", are only a few of the superlatives writers used in describing her over the years .... She played heroines that were at once sensual and pure, superficial and profound, suffering and hopeful, world-weary and life-inspiring.

She joined the " Communist Cultural Front ," a circle of artists, writers, and actors, and performed in Put Down Your Whip, a renowned popular play about a woman who escapes from the Japanese-occupied northeastern China and performs in the streets to survive.

She inspired and advised a large circle of key young Soviet writers.

She also maintained a wide correspondence, including such famous writers as Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.

She became known as " Lottie Deno ," the name which writers and storytellers would use in later years.

She believes that successful communication is possible in all languages and criticizes those who complicate communication ( particularly English writers ) as aiming to gain esteem from those who admire writing simply because they do not understand it, without considering that it may be nonsense.

She " found their sensibility and point of view to be refreshingly different, edgier and smarter " than those of most American comics writers, and worked with them and others on the superhero / science fiction series Animal Man, Doom Patrol vol.

She also explores research that identifies mood disorders in such famous writers and artists as Ernest Hemingway ( who shot himself after electroconvulsive treatment ), Virginia Woolf ( who drowned herself when she felt a depressive episode coming on ), composer Robert Schumann ( who died in a mental institution ), and even the famed visual artist Michelangelo.

Among the major writers of the period were Guo Moruo ( 郭沫若 ) ( 1892 – 1978 ), a poet, historian, essayist, and critic ; Mao Dun ( 茅盾 ) ( 1896 – 1981 ), the first of the novelists to emerge from the " League of Left-Wing Writers " and one whose work reflected the revolutionary struggle and disillusionment of the late 1920s ; satirist and novelist Lao She ( 老舍 ) ( 1899 – 1966 ); and Ba Jin ( 巴金 ) ( 1904 – 2005 ), a novelist whose work was influenced by Ivan Turgenev and other Russian writers.

She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories.

She immediately caught the attention of her editors not only through her talents as a writer in her own right, but also as a highly skilled editor for other writers.

She was also a patron of ( Jewish ) writers, and a diplomat on behalf of her people, who also attempted to start a modern state of Israel.