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A similar story of a young girl transformed into a white deer can be found in Yorkshire, where it formed the basis for Wordsworth's poem The White Deer of Rylstone.
Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus ( 251 – 183 BC ), specifically Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus and Mostellaria, the musical tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door.
It tells the story of a Jewish girl named Esther who became queen of Persia and thwarted a plan to commit genocide against her people.
Despite the setbacks, Chaplin was soon writing a new film script, The Freak, a story of a winged girl found in South America, which he intended as a starring vehicle for his daughter, Victoria Chaplin.
The story about a high society girl wrongly accused of manslaughter starred Frederick Burton and Sydney Shields.
Also suggested as a possible influence on Poe is ‘ The Secret Cell ’, a short story published in September 1837 by William Evans Burton, describing how a London policeman solves the mystery of a kidnapped girl.
:" I call your own kind self to witness [...] the last pages of Heart of Darkness where the interview of the man and the girl locks in — as it were — the whole 30000 words of narrative description into one suggestive view of a whole phase of life and makes of that story something quite on another plane than an anecdote of a man who went mad in the Centre of Africa.
The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.
Laputa: Castle in the Sky ( 1986 ) recounts the adventure of two orphans seeking a magical castle-island that floats in the sky ; My Neighbor Totoro ( Tonari no Totoro, 1988 ) tells of the adventure of two girls and their interaction with forest spirits ; and Kiki's Delivery Service ( 1989 ), adapted from a novel by Eiko Kadono, tells the story of a small-town girl who leaves home to begin life as a witch in a big city.
Spirited Away is the story of a girl, forced to survive in a bizarre spirit world, who works in a bathhouse for spirits after her parents are turned into pigs by the sorceress who owns it.
In the center of the story is an attractive servant girl.
" I've been working on a detective story that starts at the St Giles in the Fields church in London for the last two years ," she told NME adding that she " loved detective stories " having been a fan of Sherlock Holmes and US crime author Mickey Spillane as a girl.
Inspired by the basic scenario of David Pinner's 1967 novel Ritual, the story centres on the visit of Police Sergeant Neil Howie to the isolated island of Summerisle, in search of a missing girl the locals claim never existed.
The story of a girl being groomed to be a courtesan by her grandmother made Freed doubt making it as a straight drama would be acceptable to the American censors, so they " cleaned it up " and turned it into a musical.
It also presents another story of redemption and forgiveness, as he takes in a young runaway Arab girl, Fara.
During the trip the Reverend Dodgson told the girls a story that featured a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure.
Polly enters the story as a girl next door who is unable to understand the speech of non-human creatures.
His cautionary fables include " The Beautiful People " ( 1952 ), a futuristic short story about a rebellious adolescent girl who lives in a largely conformist society in which people obligatorily alter their physical appearance ( adapted as an episode of The Twilight Zone: " Number 12 Looks Just Like You "), and " Free Dirt " ( 1955 ), about a frugally gluttonous man who gorges on his entire vegetable harvest, but instead dies from having consumed the magical soil he used to grow it.
In the oldest version of the story, Mulan uses her father's name Li and she was never discovered as a girl, unlike the film.
While DeWar is gone, Perrund tells Lattens a story about a girl named Dawn, who spent most of her life locked in a basement by her cruel family and was eventually rescued by a traveling circus.
" Searchlight " is a very short science fiction story by Robert A. Heinlein about a little blind girl whose spaceship crashes on the Moon.
The " menace " of the title is a beautiful woman tourist who visits the Moon colony and is assigned a young guide named Holly, a 15-year-old girl and aspiring starship designer who is the first person narrator of the story.
In a story conference, when her name was suggested to him for the part of a girl threatened with rape, Thalberg shook his head and, with a wry smile, said, " She looks too well able to take care of herself.
The sacrifice was related to the belief that the first human being was a girl, born of the mating of the Morning Star, the male figure of light, and Evening Star, a female figure of darkness, in their creation story.

girl and became
A conscientious girl became the secretary of a doctor.
" This girl became Aphrodite.
With a legendary Hollywood " girl next door " image, and capable of delivering comedy and romance as well as heavy drama, she appeared in 39 films, released 29 albums, spent 460 weeks in the Top 40 charts and eventually became one of America's most beloved entertainers.
Within the successive editions of Edmé Boursault's Letters of Respect, Gratitude and Love ( Lettres de respect, d ' obligation et d ' amour ) ( 1669 ), a group of letters written to a girl named Babet was expanded and became more and more distinct from the other letters, until it formed a small epistolary novel entitled Letters to Babet ( Lettres à Babet ).
When girl ex-students became a reality, the home was renamed as the Alumni Building ”.
Both Isabella and Amalric died in 1205 and again an underage girl, Isabella and Conrad's daughter Maria of Montferrat, became queen of Jerusalem.
In 1953's The Actress, Gordon's film adaptation of her own autobiographical play, Years Ago, became a Hollywood production, with Jean Simmons portraying the girl from Quincy, Massachusetts, who convinced her sea captain father to let her go to New York to become an actress.
In a break with Ottoman tradition, Suleiman married a harem girl, Roxelana, who became Hürrem Sultan ; her intrigues as queen in the court and power over the Sultan made her quite renowned.
More became the guardian of a young girl named Anne Cresacre, who would eventually marry his son, John More.
* April 8 – Kathy Fiscus, girl who became famous after falling down a well in San Marino, California ( b. 1945 )
* Faith Lehane — A troubled girl who became a Slayer as a result of Kendra's death, Faith arrives in Sunnydale in Season Three after her Watcher is killed.
To escape the many temptations to which he was exposed, with the knowledge of two friends, he became engaged in the year 1544 to a young girl of humble descent, Claudine Denoese, promising to publicly marry her as soon as his circumstances would allow it.
" " Fortune hunting became a disease " with the frequent result of a peculiarly American kind of crime, a form of " murder for money ", when " the young ambitious lover of some poorer girl " found " a more attractive girl with money or position " but could not get rid of the first girl, usually because of pregnancy.
Marta was considered a very beautiful young girl, and there are accounts that Frau Glück became fearful that she would become involved with her son.
She became convinced that Elizabeth was " the one girl who could make Bertie happy ", but nevertheless refused to interfere.
It has also been revealed that the Phoenix Force was once wielded by a young red-headed girl who became an heir to the legacy of the Iron Fist.
Jason became a father for the first time at age 61, after his girlfriend, 41-year-old Gill Hinchcliffe, gave birth to a baby girl in 2001 ; they married in 2005.
All of the sisters were known for their beauty ; her sister Irene later married the artist Charles Dana Gibson and became a model for the Gibson girl.
But the " queer, wayward little Indian girl " quickly became known as a mischief-maker.
It is unclear when she and Bizet became emotionally attached, but in October 1867 he informed Galabert: " I have met an adorable girl whom I love!
In 1954, after having drawn slightly risqué, single-panel " good girl art " cartoons for magazines, using the pen name " Jake ", Cole became the premier cartoon illustrator for Playboy.

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