Virgilia Peterson, a critic by trade, has turned her critical eye pitilessly and honestly on herself in an autobiography more of the mind and heart than of specific events.

Christie describes entirely different working methods for every book in her autobiography thus contradicts this claim, more likely from theatre, screen film and TV adaptations that vary perpetrators to keep viewers coming back.

Every book followed a different train of thought, from inspiration to solution, according to her autobiography.

Christopher Hitchens, in his autobiography, describes a dinner with Christie and her husband, Max Mallowan, that became increasingly uncomfortable as the night wore on, where " The anti-Jewish flavour of the talk was not to be ignored or overlooked, or put down to heavy humour or generational prejudice.

In the 15th century, Leonor López de Córdoba, a Spanish noblewoman, wrote her Memorias, which may be the first autobiography in Castillian.

The earliest known autobiography in English is the early 15th-century Booke of Margery Kempe, describing among other things her pilgrimage to the Holy Land and visit to Rome.

While an autobiography typically focuses on the " life and times " of the writer, a memoir has a narrower, more intimate focus on his or her own memories, feelings and emotions.

In 1997 Hill published her autobiography, Speaking Truth to Power, in which she chronicled her role in the Clarence Thomas confirmation controversy and wrote that creating a better society had been a motivating force in her life.

The sequence implicitly labeled Baez a limousine liberal, a charge she took to heart, as detailed years later in her 1987 autobiography, And A Voice To Sing With: A Memoir.

In her 1980 autobiography, Shelley Winters claimed to have had a long affair with him.

In her autobiography, Retrospection and Introspection, she wrote:

Twain also expressed grave doubts about the authorship of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, showing through content analysis that the quality of the writing was much better than any of Eddy's previous or subsequent work ( for example her autobiography and her later writings in the Christian Science Journal ):

" Barrymore later described this period of her life in her autobiography, Little Girl Lost.

Day would later call it, in her autobiography, her best film.

In 1975, Day released her autobiography, Doris Day: Her Own Story, an " as-told-to " work with A. E. Hotchner.

After publishing her autobiography, Day married one last time.

She was the wife of Sir Michael Redgrave and mother of Vanessa, Lynn and Corin, and published her autobiography, Life Among the Redgraves, in 1988.

As documented in her 1994 autobiography, initially, much of Wagoner's audience was unhappy, that Norma Jean, the performer whom Parton had replaced, had left the show, and was reluctant to accept Parton ( sometimes chanting loudly for Norma Jean from the audience ).

Dolores Fuller's autobiography, A Fuller Life: Hollywood, Ed Wood and Me, co-authored by Winnipeg writer Stone Wallace and her husband Philip Chamberlin, was published in 2008.

Since her death in 1968 and the publication of her daughter Imogen's autobiography, A Childhood at Green Hedges, Blyton has emerged as an emotionally immature, unstable and often malicious figure.

Mando, pleading her cause, must have said that Dr. Brown was the most distinguished physician in the United States of America, for our man poured out his symptoms and drew a madly waving line indicating the irregularity of his pulse.

Brown ( 1959 ) has reviewed generally the various methods of assaying TSH, and the reader is referred to her paper for further information on the subject.

In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

At the October 2006 Conservative Conference, she was Chief Dragon in a political version of the television programme Dragons ' Den, in which A-list candidates were invited to put forward a policy proposal, which was then torn apart by her team of Rachel Elnaugh, Oliver Letwin and Michael Brown.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

In 1977, she recorded her first album titled Amy Grant, produced by Brown Bannister ( who would also produce her next 11 albums ).

It was during this period that Victoria began to depend on her servant John Brown, a local ghillie from Crathie who became one of her closest companions during her long mourning.

In her book The New Celibacy, Gabrielle Brown states that " abstinence is a response on the outside to what's going on, and celibacy is a response from the inside.

The fragment of a new novel she had been working on in her last years has been twice completed by recent authors, the more famous version being Emma Brown: A Novel from the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Brontë by Clare Boylan in 2003.

Garbo called Brown her favorite director.

After leaving the Les Brown & His Band of Renown to try a solo career, she started her long-lasting partnership with Columbia Records, which would remain her only recording label.

It was while working with Brown that Day scored her first hit recording, " Sentimental Journey ", released in early 1945.

Some of her lesser-known singles, due to lack of recurrent airplay — including " Honey Bee " ( 1974 ), " Casanova Brown " ( 1975 ), and " Let's Make A Deal " ( 1976 ) — became hits in the clubs and reached the Top 5 on Billboard's disco charts.

Different accounts on how " Please, Please, Please " came together vary, one story from Etta James stated that during her first meeting with Brown in Macon, Brown " used to carry around an old tattered napkin with him, because Little Richard had written the words, ' please, please, please ' on it and James was determined to make a song out of it ...".

Before his death, Brown was scheduled to perform a duet with singer Annie Lennox on the song " Vengeance " for her new album Venus, which was released in 2007.

Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

* 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California.

In the cruel clearness of her memory the boy remained unchanged, quick with the delight of laughter, and the pain with which she recalled that short destroyed childhood was still unendurable to her.

She looked about sixty, though I recalled that the chart gave her age as forty-four.

He recalled how he met the Bábí leader Táhirih and how she would take " me on to her knee, caress me, and talk to me.

( Lennon recalled in a memoir, " I was on acid, and she was on her way out.

Ivinskaya later recalled, " But I became so ill through loss of blood that she and Luisa had to get me to the hospital, and I not longer remember exactly what passed between me and this heavily built, strong-minded woman, who kept repeating how she didn't give a damn for our love and that, although she no longer loved Leonidovich herself, she would not allow her family to be broken up.

Thackeray ’ s daughter, the writer Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie recalled a visit to her father by Charlotte:

For reasons unknown, Domitian briefly exiled Domitia, and then soon recalled her, either out of love or due to rumours that he was carrying on a relationship with his niece Julia Flavia.

Later in life, Elizabeth recalled the stupidity of her teachers there, though her schooling there did help establish a love of reading.

Her sister Millicent recalled Elizabeth ’ s weekly lectures, “ Talks on Things in General ”, when her younger siblings would gather her while she discussed politics and current affairs from Garibaldi to Macauley ’ s History of England.

Scavullo recalled a fashion shoot in the Caribbean when " She was crying, she couldn't find her drugs.

Philby admired the strength of her political convictions and later recalled that at their first meeting: " frank and direct person, Litzi came out and asked me how much money I had.

May Belle Mitchell gave her children advice on drinking and sex in a time when such things were " done but not spoken of ", recalled Mitchell's brother Stephens.

NBC's Brian Williams, who attended a dinner with Reagan in mid-2008, recalled, " Mrs. Reagan's vision isn't what it always was so she was taking very halting steps as a lot of folks her age do ... t is so important for folks in her age bracket and in her bracket of life to remain upright and captain of their own ship.

MacDonald was a political radical, and Isaac Asimov later recalled that Heinlein was, like her, " a flaming liberal.

As the officer took her away, she recalled that she asked, " Why do you push us around?

In a telephone interview with CNN on October 24, 2005, Conyers recalled, " You treated her with deference because she was so quiet, so serene — just a very special person ...

For example, in her senior year of high school she wrote a piece called, " Lulu ’ s Wedding ( A True Story )" in which she recalled the wedding of a family serving girl.

Joan Greenwood played Olga and later recalled that her late husband Andre Morell thought the show was so appalling, they should get her out of the play.

Maria Ritter, who was known as Steve to her family, recalled, " My biggest fear was that I would get arrested.