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Cornelia Otis Skinner - Wikipedia  Skinner was the daughter of the actor Otis Skinner and his wife, Maud Durbin. ... United States from 1926 to 1929 in a one-woman performance of short ... In later years Skinner wrote Madame Sarah (a biography of...
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Cornelia Otis Skinner Facts - Biography - YourDictionary  She was also a gifted actress, performing one-woman monologues that were unique ... Cornelia Otis Skinner was born on May 30, 1901, in Chicago to Otis Skinner .... Madame Sarah (1967), a biography of Sarah Bernhardt, was both a critical...
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Cornelia Otis Skinner (Author of Our Hearts Were Young and Gay)  Cornelia Otis Skinner was an American author and actress. ... Cornelia Otis Skinner. Born. in Chicago, The United States. December 13, 1901 ... in a one-woman performance of short character sketches she herself wrote. ... Madame Sarah
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Madame Sarah by Cornelia Otis Skinner  Reviews, Discussion ...  Sarah Bernhardt was an amazing woman, in that she accomplished a lot -- acting, ... I had not heard that Cornelia Otis Skinner had written a biography of the...
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Cornelia Otis Skinner | American actress and author | Britannica.com  Cornelia Otis Skinner. American actress and author. born. May 30, 1901 ... Other performances that won critical acclaim included her roles in Lady ... and in the serious and moving Madame Sarah (1967), which chronicled the life of the French...
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DAY FAMILY HISTORY - Freepages - Ancestry.com  A little attachment about Solomon W. Brill of Poughkeepsie New York. I have to locate two pages of Sarah Day's diary she wrote in her later life and will send it to you later. ... They went back and forth from Indian territory to Arkansas. ... He married later that year, Mary Ann Brent in Pike Co., Ms. She was born in Fairfield...
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Jeopary Questions page 1439 - MARTHA MY DEAR - TriviaBistro.com  GRANDKIDS: Louisa Drew, known for playing Mrs. Malaprop, was the grandmother of 3 famous actors with this last name  "SWEET" SONGS: Sade sang, "You...
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Sarah Childress Polk (September 4, 1803  August 14, 1891) was ...  Sarah Polk was wife of 11th President James K. Polk and served as First Lady ... During her time at the White House, dancing, hard liquor and card games .... Sarah Childress Polk 1803-1891 She was well educated for a woman of her time & place. .... A third president, James Madison, died five years later on July 4, 1831.
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Ten Facts About Martha Washington  George Washington's Mount ...  Unlike most women in Virginia in the early 1700s, Martha learned to read and write ... She read the Bible and other devotional literature for religious edification ... Martha's marriage to Daniel Parke Custis, who died on July 8, 1757, lasted just ... for future presidents, so Martha, too, was aware that her behavior as first lady...
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Sarah Bernhardt | Jewish Women's Archive  The French actress Sarah Bernhardt, named by her fans the Divine Sarah, is ... Thodora and Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugne Scribe (17911861); Doa Sol .... Her greatest triumph at this theater was her travesti role as the minstrel boy ... Early in 1880 she resigned from the company and left Paris for a tour with her own...
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June 29, 2008  But that is called 'cannibalism', my dear children" is from this film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory .... This woman's work on the Underground Railroad later inspired an opera called "She Never Lost a Passenger" Harriet Tubman;Tubman...
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Blog | Louisa May Alcott is My Passion | Analysis and reflection from ...  Member/supporter of Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House, the Louisa May Alcott ... I have finally begun writing my book on Lizzie, beginning with a presentation that I .... You may have heard how very sick my Lizzy has been. ..... prominent teachers (among them Dr. William Rimmer and Stephen Salisbury .... [Diary]1860-1861.
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Sarah Polk - First Ladies - HISTORY.com  Find out more about the history of Sarah Polk, including videos, interesting articles, ... lady (18451849), wife of James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States. ... It is unclear when Sarah first met her future husband, who was raised in ... in 1823, the two were married at the Childress family home on January 1, 1824.
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Grandma Was a Back Bay Boho : NONFICTION : THE WHITE ...  Mar 10, 1996 ... Born in 1892 with a silver spoon in her mouth, she was so well-known that ... THE WHITE BLACKBIRD: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by her ... fourth cousin, John Singer Sargent, the high-society portraitist whose lush...
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Madame de Maintenon - Versailles  Louis XV; Marie Leszczinska; Mesdames; Cardinal de Fleury; Madame de ... the Marquise de Montespan, then the mistress of Louis XIV, she looked after ... 1647, she first married the writer Paul Scarron, celebrated for his burlesque comedies. ... the Marquise and the death of the Queen Maria Theresa of Austria to secretly...
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Betsy Bonaparte: Woman of Two Worlds - Maryland Historical Society  I read about Miss Bonaparte and her privileged, yet tragic life. .... A first mention appears in her Account of Cloathes, written on August 10, 1815 which notes,...
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Sarah Caldwell: The First Woman of Opera: Daniel Kessler ...  Sarah Caldwell: The First Woman of Opera is the first biography of this significant ... including the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and ... director for Wolf Trap; and was the first woman to conduct at the Metropolitan Opera. She founded the renowned Opera Company of Boston, as well as the...
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Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child: Noel Riley Fitch ...  Noel Riley Fitch's savory new biography, Appetite for Life, reveals a woman as ... than from her perennially popular PBS television series, The French Chef. ... Julia Child as a personality has long been melded with Julia Child, the cook. .... One can't possibly keep up with the dozens of names bandied about and the end...
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Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Fields in St. Augustine ... - Coe College  Furthermore, the 1888 trip, which included a visit with Laura Towne and Ellen Murray at the .... See The Diverse People of "Jim's Little Woman" by Sarah Orne Jewett. ... Henry James, according to Leon Edel, loosely based his characters Olive ... Really it is a perfect palace of a place and though we were told again that it's...
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Sarah Gibson Blanding - Vassar College Encyclopedia - Vassar ...  Sarah Gibson Blanding, Vassar's sixth president and first female president, was ... who strongly advocated the professional, political, and academic place of women in the world. ... She attended the New Haven Normal School of Gymnastics, where she ... Blanding became the president of Vassar in 1946. ... New York Times.
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The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune from ... - Newspapers.com  .Mr. Geis Martha, in reality LE;dy Hariet, maid of honor t o Queen Anne Miss ... friend and companion Miss De Sellem Sir Tristan Mickleford, Lady Harriet's cousin Mr. ... Martha danced into town last night and flung op)en the doors! at the Berchel ... of Flotow's charming old opera, "Martha," preT sented by the Boston English...