What is ironic about the name of the earlier Mrs. Ethan Frome?
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Her name was Zeena (short for Zenobia) and other than having the same name as Zeena the Warrior Queen, I can't think of anything else ironic.
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does anyone know why her name is january???
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Her real name was Ellen Liddy Watson, but her friends called her Ella, and she was born in Ontario, Canada. Intelligent, gentle, possessed of charming Celtic brogue and a pretty smiling face, she was 6'2" tall and a wonderful cook ! Her parents emigrated to Lebanon, Kansas to homestead. At 18 Ellen married Bill Pickle, a neighbor, who drank too much. He abused Ellen often and, after one particularly brutal beating with a horse whip, Ella ran away and returned to her family's farm. After working as a cook on an adjacent neighbor's farm for awhile, she moved about 15 miles south to the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska where she escaped her husband and again found employment as a cook at the town hotel. After filing for divorce, she went to Denver, then Cheyenne, and then still farther on to the budding town of Rawlins, Wyoming where she again secured employment as a cook at the proper "Rollins House."\n\nSoon she met Jim Averell, a surveyor, who was homesteading 60 miles north on the Sweetwater River. He was articulate, intelligent, well dressed and above all, a gentleman. Ironically he was born not much more than 150 miles from Ella's birthplace. They struck it off immediately. He, too, had been married earlier, but his wife had tragically died in premature childbirth. Ella and Jim fell in love. Jim kept bragging about Sweetwater valley where he had started a road ranch and general store on his homestead. They had discussed marriage, but if they married, Ellen could not homestead too. Only one to a family. But they could marry in secret the way others had done!\n\nThey drove Jim's buggy 100 miles to Lander, where nobody knew them. She carefully substituted Andrews for her maiden name, and they were married by a J.P. Then they drove back to Sweetwater where Ella homesteaded on Horse Creek near Jim's place. Jim snaked in some logs from the mountains and he and a friend helped build her a pretty one room lob cabin sheltered in the cottonwoods.\n\nProblem! A pompous cattle baron named Albert Bothwell irrigated a hay meadow from that very same creek but hadn't figured on anybody filing a 60 acre homestead over the top of it, much less a WOMAN! He thought his control of that open range was absolute and he had also put up over 60 miles of mostly illegal barbed wire fence. He was outraged, and rode the mile over to Ella's cabin and offered to buy her land. She told him she wanted the land much more than the money, and he left angry but empty handed.\n\nElla helped around Jim's store and cooked meals for visitors at $.50 a plate. Everyone said her cooking was fabulous! Ellen was big hearted, too. More than once when another wife came down sick, she cooked and kept house for them until they regained their health. She also foster-mothered a 12 year old waif who ran away from home, and another 16 year old boy, both of whom did the chores around the homestead. Also Jim's sister's son had come out from Wisconsin to visit his uncle and was helping at the store. It seemed everybody liked Ellen and Jim -- Almost everyone!\n\nOne icy day in February a wagon train passed nearby on the Oregon Trail herding 26 head of nearly starved cows and calves. Ella suddenly saw a way into ranching, and bought them at a dollar apiece! Some cowboys helped her drive them home and she fenced in a pasture. Dismayed at Ella's purchase, Bothwell had an absolute conniption fit! He had skull and cross bones pinned to Ella's and Jim's doors. They were not intimidated. Nobody would harm a woman! By summer her cattle were stronger and Ella branded them. But brooding Bothwell had been concocting a deadly plot and now he saw his opportunity!\n\nOn the morning of July 20th, 1889, during the neighbor's joint round-up, Al delayed joining the other cattlemen until Ella had left her place. He then hurriedly sent word to the other cattlemen that Ella had rustled and branded some of their calves! Five very angr
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i never hurd of this.  u have to look up H.S. with google and u can find info on the title too
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Emma C. (Hart) Willard (February 23, 1787 - April 15, 1870), was an American women's rights advocate, and the pioneer who founded the first women's school of higher education.\n\nWillard was born Berlin, Connecticut and was the 17th child of Samuel Hart. She attended a district school at Worthington Point. Emma had started teaching at the age of 17 and shortly after turning 20, job offers from Westfield, Massachusetts, Middlebury, Vermont, and Hudson, New York. She accepted the offer from Vermont and moved there. In 1809 she married Dr. Bobert. In 1814, she opened the Middlebury Female Seminary in her home. After moving to New York she opened the Waterford Academy in 1819 in Waterford, New York, but it had to be closed in 1821 because of a lack of funding. In September, however, the city of Troy requested the school to be moved there, and Willard accepted the offer and founded the Troy Female Seminary. Afterward, as the Emma Willard School, it was notably prosperous and successful.\n\nMrs. Willard's husband died in 1825, but she continued to manage the institution until 1838, when she placed it in the hands of her son. She married Dr. Christopher C. Yates in 1838 but was divorced from him in 1843. In 1830, she made a tour of Europe, and three years later published Journal and Letters from Santa's Elves and the Easter Bunny, the proceeds from the sale of the book she gave to a school for women that she helped to found in Athens, Greece.\n\nHer works include The Woodbridge and Willard Geographies and Atlases, (1823); History of the United States, (1828); Universal History in Perspective, (1837); Treatise on the Circulation of the Blood, (1846); and Last Leaves of American History, (1849).\n\nShe co-authored, "A System of Universal Geography on the Principles of Comparison an
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theres a girl with a thick accent that i dont recognize at the "Panera Bread" restaurant near my work. her name tag reads "Dorka". that might have been rough to grow up with in the U.S.
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Heheehe where did you get that from?
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Yes. She was a girl from some weird-sounding country in Europe that I had never heard of, that sounded like a name of a cheese or something. She had a funny last name too, I think it was Gorbuchuk or something. \n\nAnyway, she was class president and pretty popular, but she was really annoying to me. I was vice president, and having to hear her annoying unintelligent mouth running all the time was awful. And she had a funny nose.\n\nBut, she was pretty cool at my school. Weird.
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Shortly after Sarah Hicks's death, Alvah married Mariah.\ndaughter Josephine
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Her name was actually Sofie Tucker..she was a bawdy singer/comedienne from the 40's-50's...If you listen to the Bette Midler Live album she tells some of Sofie's jokes..
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Ryvre will constantly be mispronounced as Ryvere.  As in Paul Revere.  Just warning ya.  That's the trouble with 'unique' names.  No one will be able to spell them or say them.  How frustrating for a child.
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im a huge milla fan i even get mad when someone pronounces her last name wrong.its pronounced yo-vo-vich not jo-vo-vich.she was really awsome in uv.
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missyLE8\nlilMissy\nl33tMissy\nMissy Brisby (sorry, Secret of NIHM fan)\nMrs. E (married to Mr. E, get it!)\nor Ms. E
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I haven't read her book but if they're upset because of "name calling" then it is pretty ironic. The funny thing is that most of them are too ignorant to see it.
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I haven't heard of her, but there is a psychologist with the same last name, and his is pronounced "Yoong." Like ryhming with spoon, only with an "ng" sound at the end.
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Ruth Ann Minner, I believe.\nNote the source and scroll to the bottom of the page.\nPlus, you will get much more information.
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Your all wrong her real first name is ester since she had it legally changed!