The Brontë sisters had adopted pseudonyms for publication: Charlotte was Currer Bell, Emily was Ellis Bell and Anne was Acton Bell.

Her parents died within a few hours of each other from malignant fever, whereupon Grace and her two sisters were adopted by John Tonkin, a surgeon in the town.

For example, Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill, English sisters who adopted the country as their own, moved to Canada in 1832.

In 1785, Kinzie helped rescue two American sisters, who had been kidnapped in 1775 from Virginia by the Shawnee and adopted into the tribe.

Other characters include Falco's mother, his sisters, their husbands and their never-ending crowd of offspring ; his father Geminus ( the shady antiques dealer ); his two children and their British nursemaid Albia, whom Marcus and Helena have adopted ; Helena's mother and two brothers Aulus Camillus Aelianus and Quintus Camillus Justinianus ; Falco's one-time landlord Smaractus ; the laundry proprietor Lenia, Smaractus ' wife and Falco's former neighbour ; Falco's personal trainer Glaucus ; and various murderers, criminals, exotic dancers, and mangy animals, all of whom spend a great deal of time making Falco's life a little harder than it would be otherwise.

In the 1850s they settled near Wilkesboro, adopted the town as their home, and married two local sisters.

The Bijanis ' parents did not find the sisters again until several years later in Karaj, where Dr. Alireza Safaian adopted them.

In January, 2010, Joyce Maynard adopted six and eleven year old sisters from Ethiopia.

Later in the 18th century, Jane Austen's brother Edward ( who had been adopted by the Knights ) succeeded, and in 1809 was able to move his mother and sisters to a cottage in the village.

* Ballet Shoes ( film ) ( 2007 )-Three adopted sisters, Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil where each has a different talent: acting, machinery and ballet.

She had been adopted alongside Dushara as the presiding goddess at Petra, the Nabataen capital, where she assimilated with Isis, Tyche, and Aphrodite attributes and superseded her sisters.

She has a younger brother, Ferdinand " Bong-Bong " Marcos, Jr., currently a Senator of the Republic of the Philippines, and two younger sisters, Irene Marcos-Araneta, a socialite, and Aimee Marcos, who was adopted and works as a entrepreneur and musician.

Aja and Shana are also childhood friends and adopted foster sisters of Jerrica and Kimber, having lived with Benton family since they were young.

Both Barbara and her cousin and adopted sister Anna married ruling kings whose recently deceased wives were sisters and relatives of the Celje family.

: She shows sympathy only to her sisters and to her adopted son, Ou Eki / O Tenkun.

Lane was soon adopted by a traveling Lutheran minister, which resulted in Lane's being separated from his two sisters.

By and large, women and girls who adopted Islamic dress apparently did so of their own volition, although it was not unusual for men to insist that their sisters, wives, and daughters cover their hair in public.

During World War I, two of her sisters who had married into the Russian royal family were murdered by communist revolutionaries, and she and her husband abandoned their German titles and adopted the British-sounding surname of Mountbatten, which was simply a translation into English of the German " Battenberg ".

In most cases, especially in France, the sisters adopted enclosure and took solemn vows.

A travel insurance policy which covers curtailment due to the death or illness of a member of the policy-holder's " immediate family " uses a wide definition but adds residential requirements: " Immediate Family is your Partner, and: parents, children, stepchildren, fostered or adopted children, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces, grandchildren, or grandparents, of either you or your Partner, who live in your Home Country.

He had never spoken once to the awed sisters, but his son had been friendly, a big fellow of fifty or more, a fishing-boat captain and powerful like the sea.

It is possible that Weightman was no more aware of her, her sisters or their friend Ellen Nussey.

Scientists currently think that cnidarians, ctenophores and bilaterians are more closely related to calcareous sponges than these are to other sponges, and that anthozoans are the evolutionary " aunts " or " sisters " of other cnidarians, and the most closely related to bilaterians.

Suetonius writes that after the banishment of his mother and brothers, Caligula and his sisters were nothing more than prisoners of Tiberius under the close watch of soldiers.

During this time, Cleveland lived simply in a boarding house ; although his income grew sufficient to support a more lavish lifestyle, Cleveland continued to support his mother and younger sisters.

One consequence of haplodiploidy is that females on average actually have more genes in common with their sisters than they do with their own daughters.

He was born in 1591 at Büttgen in the duchy of Jülich as the eldest son with eight more brothers and sisters.

The sisters were held in the Ludlow Street Jail for the next month, a place normally reserved for civil offenses, but which contained more hardened criminals as well.

I hurry in the clothes I have now got on, trousers and ragged jacket ; the bald place upon my head is made by thrusting the corves ; my legs have never swelled, but sisters ' did when they went to mill ; I hurry the corves a mile and more under ground and back ; they weigh 300 cwt.

The other four sisters are more securely attested and were Adela who married the count of Blois, Cecily who became a nun, Agatha who died before marriage, and Constance who married the duke of Brittany.

He was also on one occasion chided by Rome's social leaders for refusing to make his ( Pius X's ) peasant sisters papal countesses, to which he responded ' I have made them sisters of the pope ; what more can I do for them?

Beth's dying has a strong impact on her sisters, especially Jo, who resolves to live her life with more consideration and care for others.

Set free, he supported his mother and three sisters by working in a Rotterdam shipyard, went to sea again at 19, briefly worked for the navy, but having rejoined the merchant fleet was captured once more in 1621 — this time by Barbary corsairs off Tunis.

" As Tatiana grew into adulthood, she undertook more public appearances than her sisters and headed committees.

4. 44. 2 and 12. 54. 2 may have confused the two Antonia sisters ( of whom the younger is far more famous ).

4. 44. 2 and 12. 54. 2 may have confused the two younger Antonia sisters ( of whom the younger is far more famous ).

Although other witnesses in Perm later reported that they saw Anastasia, her mother Alexandra Fyodorovna and sisters in Perm after the murder, that story is now widely discredited as nothing more than a rumor.

Of the three Gorgons, she was known to be the most independent and ferocious, having killed more men than both of her sisters combined.

* Religious sisters may be styled as Reverend Sister, though this is more common in Italy than in, for example, the United States.

A former cocaine addict who is depicted as the more insecure and least talented of the three sisters, she's an unsuccessful actress who shifts from one career aspiration to another in order to find success.

Geoffrey dealt with Avalon in more detail in Vita Merlini, in which he describes for the first time in Arthurian legend the enchantress Morgan le Fay as the chief of nine sisters ( Moronoe, Mazoe, Gliten, Glitonea, Gliton, Tyronoe, Thiten and Thiton ) who live on Avalon.

Her biographer, Jan Dalley, believes that, " Unity found life in her big family very difficult because she came after these cleverer, prettier, more accomplished sisters.

Their grandmother Eleanor of Aquitaine, upon getting acquainted with the two sisters, judged that Blanche's personality was more fit for a queen consort of France.

Only Bing Crosby sold more Decca Records than the sisters in the 1940s.