Hall's account provides much of the Styrian background and in particular a model for both Carmilla and Laura in the figure of Jane Anne Cranstoun, Countess Purgstall.

Hentzi accused Mendes and Ball of identifying too readily with Jane and Ricky, saying the latter was their " fantasy figure "— a teenaged boy who's an absurdly wealthy artist able to " finance own projects ".

While there has to be some elements of real life history to the setting under most definitions, the " detective " may be a real-life historical figure, e. g. Socrates, Jane Austen, Mozart, or a wholly imaginary character.

* Jane Grey Swisshelm, abolitionist and leading figure of the early woman's movement

In Jane Eyre, Cowan Bridge becomes Lowood, the pathetic figure of Maria is represented by the character of the young Helen Burns, the cruelty of the mistress Miss Andrews by that of Miss Scatcherd, and the tyranny of the headmaster, the Rev.

* She is a central figure in the collection of poetry, " Some Other Garden ", by Jane Urquhart, first published as: " I am Walking in the Garden of His Imaginary Place ".

In an " interview " on CBS Early Show on January 21, 2002, Daria was asked by Jane Clayson if she kept in touch with Beavis and Butt-head ; she responded " I'd like to " but first they'd " have to figure out that when the telephone makes that funny sound, you're supposed to pick it up and say hello ".

One response is from a Mr. " Carter ," a leading figure in a British intelligence agency, who provides the background to Jane Finn, all of which is earlier revealed to the reader in the book's prologue.

Born in Hampton, New Hampshire, the daughter of Reverend Jesse Appleton, a Congregationalist minister, and Elizabeth Means-Appleton, Jane was a petite, frail, shy, melancholy figure.

* Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, 3rd Marquess of Dorset ( 1517 – 1554 ), father of Lady Jane Grey ( disputed Queen of England ), was an important figure in Henry VIII's court.

A mysterious figure begins to use a Time Scoop to bring the previous incarnations of the Doctor, some of his former companions ( Susan Foreman, Sarah Jane Smith, and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart ) and archenemies ( including the Daleks and Cybermen ) into the Death Zone on Gallifrey.

In 2000 Esther Williams ' life and career was portrayed in the Swedish book Esther Williams — Skenbiografin ( i. E ~ " Esther Williams — The Fake Biography ") by Jane Magnusson ; in which the author shares with readers her own fascination for art swimming as a genre and, here, in particular, Williams as — to the author — both a bewildering and mesmerizing front figure and icon in this field.

Among them are the former residences of: Charles Manuel " Sweet Daddy " Grace, flamboyant founder of the United House of Prayer For All People ; John A. Lankford, the first African American architect in Washington, D. C .; Belford Lawson, Jr., lead attorney in the landmark case New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co .; Alain LeRoy Locke, the first African American Rhodes Scholar and central figure in the Harlem Renaissance ; Mary Jane Patterson, the first African American woman to earn a bachelor's degree ; Ella Watson, subject of Gordon Parks's famous photograph American Gothic, Washington, D. C .; and James Lesesne Wells, noted graphic artist and longtime art instructor at Howard University.

* Augusta Jane Chapin ( 1836 – 1905 ), US female religious figure and women's rights activist

The monuments include a recumbent figure of a knight dating from 1200 and an alabaster altar tomb with effigies to John Knottesford, 1589, his wife Jane and their daughter, Anne.

To his companions, especially Sarah Jane Smith, he was protective and somewhat of a father figure.

Maggiore became a controversial figure following the death of her 3-year-old daughter, Eliza Jane Scovill.

The structure is a kind of free-wheeling nightmare, held together by the central figure of the heroine, played by Lynn Seymour ".

* John Seymour ( author ) ( 1914 – 2004 ), author and influential figure in the self-sufficiency movement

Michael Seymour Sewell ( 1912 – 2000 ), usually now known by his religious name Brocard Sewell, was a British Carmelite friar and literary figure.

* Charlie Mayne ( Philip Seymour Hoffman )-A mysterious suitor to Miles ' mother and a symbolic figure in Miles ' life.

John Seymour ( 12 June 1914 – 14 September 2004 ) was an influential figure in the self-sufficiency movement.

Seymour was to become an influential figure for the next 40 years as player, manager and director.

He continued to work up until his death in Fordingbridge, Hampshire in 1961, his last work being a studio mural in three parts, the left hand of which showed a Falstaffian figure of a French peasant in a yellow waistcoat playing a hurdy gurdy while coming down a village street.

After Nelson issued a written warning to Rivera to replace the offending figure with an anonymous face, Rivera refused ( after offering to counterbalance Lenin with a portrait of Lincoln ), and so he was paid off and the mural papered over at the instigation of Nelson, who was to become the Center's flamboyant president.

The Trinity is a negative image of the revolution in which a revolutionary leader is the central figure in the mural, " blinded by the red Jacobian hat of the revolution " and threatening the very people he is supposed to be fighting for.

The main lobby entrance featured a, Venetian glass mosaic mural overhead, depicting major figures from the history of science such as Marie Curie and Charles Darwin under the protective hands of a God-like figure representing knowledge, with this quote from John Dewey: " Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

On November 17, 2008, a mural by Tarō Okamoto, " The Myth of Tomorrow ", depicting a human figure being hit by an atomic bomb, was unveiled in its new permanent location at the station, in the connecting passage to the Keiō Inokashira Line entrance.

There is a large carved statue of Peter Fidler ( a figure from fur trade days ) near Elk Point and a mural of Elk Point history near the town centre.

The mural painting of the figure of Christ wears a greyish, white robe with a blue mantle.

Sakisaka is quick to find out about Midori, and to Seiji and Midori's surprise, he reveals that he once discovered an old Egyptian mural which depicted a person with a miniature figure on the right hand-just the same as with them.

Cacaxtla conserves the oldest mural painting featuring a human figure and symbols from other cultures ( Teotihuacan, Maya, Mixtec and Totonaca ).

Nude study in graphite ; preparatory drawing for the allegorical figure of Romance in The Arts mural at the Library of Congress Jefferson Building.

For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby, at the moment of his collapse, all these elements come together in prophetic parody.

Though it centers around the brilliant and enigmatic figure of Charles 12,, the true hero is not finally the king himself.

An advantage of being exposed to such specificity about an important and recurring feature of social reality is that it can be taken advantage of by the reader to examine covert as well as overt resonances within himself, resonances triggered by explicit symbols clustering around the central figure of the Jew.

The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

It is a Whig history of the `` Tory reaction '' which preceded the Reform Bill of 1832, and it uses the figure of Grey to give some unity to the narrative.

For the figure of Vincent Berger Malraux has obviously drawn on his studies of T. E. Lawrence ( though Berger fights on the side of the Turks instead of against them ), and like both Lawrence and Malraux himself he is a fervent admirer of Nietzsche.

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

The national average is more than $4 and that figure is considered by experts in the mental health field to be too low.

Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 megatons.

Some government scientists say privately that the figure probably is closer to 80 megatons, and that the full 50-megaton bomb that Khrushchev mentioned may still be detonated.

Based on this figure and considering depreciation costs of vehicles, pool personnel have determined that travel in excess of 10,000 miles annually is more economical by state car than by payment of allowances for use of personally-owned vehicles.

The ideal girl -- possessed of talent, poise, intelligence, personality and beauty of face and figure -- is chosen each year to represent Rhode Island.

The shelter illustrated in figure 12 is based on such a room built in a new home in the Washington, D.C. area in the Spring of 1959.

Next to it is a copper section, with cooking utensils and a figure of the chief cook in an elaborate, floor-length robe.

The figure five is important in insurance.

This result is plotted along with the 8.6-mm observations of Gibson ( 1958 ) in figure 1, A.

Another anode holder used in the experiments is shown in figure 3.

The best way to determine the correct figure ( in captives ) is by direct observation of pairs isolated from birth, a method that produced surprising results: maturing of a male Indian python in less than two years, his mate in less than three ; ;

the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.

This expectation is what really `` sold '' point and figure.

If the patient can perceive figure kinesthetically when he cannot perceive it visually, then, it would seem, the sense of touch has immediate contact with the spatial aspects of things in independence of visual representations, at least in regard to two dimensions, and, as we shall see, even this much spatial awareness on the part of unaided touch is denied by the authors.

Or, he might remind Fromm that the 41 per cent figure is really astonishingly low: after all, the medieval guild system was dedicated to the proposition that 100 per cent of the workers ought to turn out only the average amount ; ;

After all, the henpecked husband with his shrewish wife is a comic figure of long standing, in literature and on the stage, as Dr. Schillinger points out.