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...A look at some of the famous women in European history. Includes biographies on Cleopatra; Isabella of Castile; Joan of Arc; Maria Theresa; Josephine; Elizabeth of England; Mary of Scotland; Catherine of Russia; Marie Antoinette; and Madame Roland. Mr. Jenkins, whose name remains on the title-page of this volume, was prevented from finishing the wo...

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...he time to learn the native tongue. This ain't West Side Story and I ain't Maria The director lowered her eyes to the curriculum vitae again before pi... ...nstein and Hitler. JFK and Martin Luther King. Doctor Kevorkian and Mother Theresa. Wars and Disease. Sinners and saints, madmen and geniuses. Nothing...

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...s. This overactive youth is said to have impregnated Hitler’s parental grandmother, Maria Anna. Leopold Frankenberg, the clan’s patriarch, paid Aloi... ...had remained Judenrein – cleansed of Jews – until the 1860s. There is no record of Maria Anna ever having been to Graz. There are no child support ... ...yed and very few Jewish children were expelled from schools.” “A veritable Mother Theresa.” “Far from it. Throughout this period, in his private... ... He probably passed it on to his off-spring.” “What was her name?” “Anna. Anna Maria Shicklgruber.” Chapter the Sixteenth The Hitler... ...ing, you scummy Jew?” “You asked for the truth.” – I defended myself lamely. “Maria Anna Shicklgruber. Is this the Fuehrer’s grandmother you ar... ...he stony bench. “The documents we had discussed earlier, the ones concerning Anna Maria Schicklgruber, you gave them to Arlosoroff in 1931.” Th...

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...rk Lewis, Steve and Suzanne Diamond, Mark and Elizabeth Williams, Joe and Theresa Moore, Del Smith, Phil and Donna Gray, Mike and Susan Cheney-O'Byr... ...e are always in training, preparing for a time yet to come. In 1958 I met Maria, a lovely West Indian lady who became my first full-time girlfriend.... ...nd. There had been other relationships, but they were short-term affairs. Maria became the real thing and made it official by telling her friends th... ...ys. We introduced each other to our families. For the next several months Maria and I were inseparable. During that time we did the usual-we went to... ...arties, dances, the movies-and found pleasure in each other's body. Then Maria told me her period was late and she might be pregnant. We discussed ... ...been any thought of marriage or children. However, I did enjoy being with Maria, and I decided I would continue seeing her. A few days after my deci...

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...him a long letter, which I have since been informed was preserved by M. de Marianne, who had long been attached to the Marquis de Bonac, and has since... ...ready in the only place that could have sat- isfied my ambition, and M. de Marianne in expectancy: thus my utmost hopes could only aspire to the offic... ...se, he knelt down with a frightful grimace, but had hardly recited two Ave-Marias, when, not being able to contain himself any longer, he rose hastily... ...f age, and who, as well as the hostess, ate at our table. This girl, named Theresa le Vasseur, was of a good family; her father was an officer in the ... ...men!” exclaimed I; “sought for at Paris, and at twenty years of age! Ah my Theresa! I am happy in possessing thee, virtuous and healthy as thou art, a... ... the least thing inter- mediate between everything and nothing. I found in Theresa the supplement of which I stood in need; by means of her I lived as... ...tached, have little need of searching for ideas elsewhere. I lived with my Theresa as agreeably as with the finest ge- nius in the world. Her mother, ... ...o turn about and to go to Salins, under the pretense of going to see M. de Marian, the nephew of M. Dupin, who had an employment at the salt-works, an... ...ad given me many invitations to his house. The expedition succeeded: M. de Marian was not in the way, and, happily, not being obliged to stop, I conti...

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...her in that dress this evening.’ ‘Mamma does not like it,’ said Emma; ‘but Theresa feels it such a privilege not to be forced to conform to the tramme... ...eing conspicuous.’ ‘That I could never bear to be, mamma,’ said Emma; ‘but Theresa is of a firmer, less shrinking mould.’ Lady Elizabeth repeated that... ...er than any cow; and this Ursula—or what is her outlandish name, Violet?’ ‘Theresa; Sarah Theresa.’ ‘Well, really,’ said John, ‘it is not for the pres... ...let, and was very anxious to hear whether she had not become intimate with Theresa. Violet could not give a good account of herself in this respect; t... ...ll have to call on them, but they are mere ordinary girls—no companions to Theresa. She laments it very much, and has had to make a line for herself. ... ... bed at once, and I will come and see you.’ ‘I cannot. I undertook to give Maria her draught at one o’clock. May I stay here while you go to bed?’ ‘An... ...r just as 414 Heartsease she was opening it, thinking the noise more than Maria’s illness could occasion, and setting forth to see whether there was ... ...er. ‘I know where it is,’ she said, ‘I am going to see how they are moving Maria;’ and putting Helen into the nearest pair of arms, she ran back. Harr...

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...ding on to all kinds of well-known reflections, from the old won- der, why Theresa had married Willoughby? “Of course, one sees all that,” she thought... ...s at her feet; and was always thinking how to educate his daughter so that Theresa might be glad. He was a very ambitious man; and although he had not... ...t length. “There is a like- ness?”—he nodded his head at the photograph of Theresa and sighed. Helen looked at Theresa pursing up her lips before the ... ...nd hens to re- ceive them, “no wonder you hardly look like a human being!” Maria accepted the compliment with an exquisite Spanish grace. In Chailey’s... ...added, “The season’s begun,” looking at the lights beneath them. She asked Maria in Spanish whether the hotel was not filling up with visi- tors. Mari... ...n was going back into the past, choosing her words deliberately, comparing Theresa with the people she had known since Theresa died. “I don’t know how... ... as I was, in my shirt sleeves. The beggars had the sense to scatter.” “If Theresa married Willoughby,” she remarked, turning the page with a hairpin,... ...he song that some one was singing in the garden stopped suddenly, and when Maria, as she brought water, slipped past the bed with averted eyes. There ... ...own and sob. Then the lamps were brought in by Chailey. She explained that Maria, in opening a bottle, had been so foolish as to cut 340 The Voyage O...

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...ence produced on his mind by the first books he read at his uncle’s. Saint Theresa and Madame Guyon were a sequel to the Bible; they had the first-fru... ...inst the fact alone, but simple enough to believers—the fact that Alphonzo-Maria di Liguori, Bishop of Saint-Agatha, administered consolations to Pope... ...of the Roman ritual; his ideas were more intimately in sympathy with Saint Theresa and Fenelon, and several Fa- thers and certain Saints, who, in our ...

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...ed his ideal on ma- terial possibilities. Three days before the arrival of Maria Louisa, Napoleon flung himself on his wedding bed at Compiegne. All s... ... glorious colors, and whose perfume disgusts us with reality. I am a Saint-Theresa who has not been suffered to live on ecstasy in the depths of a con...

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...match, and though the Major had sacrificed all to love and honour himself, mariages de convenance were still so much the rule, and wives, bestowed in ... ...exchange into the line, and see a little service before settling down, but Maria Theresa had not as yet set Europe in a blaze, and in the absence of a... ...ge into the line, and see a little service before settling down, but Maria Theresa had not as yet set Europe in a blaze, and in the absence of a promi...

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... the whole succession upon the son of the only son of the Queen of France, Maria Theresa, sister of the King of Spain. There were, however, two great ... ...hole succession upon the son of the only son of the Queen of France, Maria Theresa, sister of the King of Spain. There were, however, two great obstac... ...the King of Spain. There were, however, two great obstacles in their path. Maria Theresa, upon her marriage with our King, had solemnly renounced all ... ...ng of Spain. There were, however, two great obstacles in their path. Maria Theresa, upon her marriage with our King, had solemnly renounced all claim ... ...obstacle, these politicians were of opinion that the renunciations made by Maria Theresa held good only as far as they applied to the object for which... ...le, these politicians were of opinion that the renunciations made by Maria Theresa held good only as far as they applied to the object for which they ... ...gny had a splendid suite of apartments, that had formerly been occupied by Maria Theresa (afterwards wife of Louis XIV .), placed at his disposal, wit... ...d a splendid suite of apartments, that had formerly been occupied by Maria Theresa (afterwards wife of Louis XIV .), placed at his disposal, with some...

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...e the ground. STRANGER: STRANGER: STRANGER: STRANGER: STRANGER: Phantom of Theresa say, _165 Why to earth... ...unctuation. 311 Shelley LET LET LET LET LETTER TER TER TER TER T T T T TO MARIA GISBORNE. O MARIA GISBORNE. O MARIA GISBORNE. O MARIA GISBORNE. O MAR...

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...g, her bower thatched with rushes;—catching pre- mature rheumatism. (Helen Maria Williams, Letters from France (London, 1791-93), iii. 96.) Clermont m... ... as Sieyes says, ‘the veto of scoundrels,’ Roland veto des coquins. (Helen Maria Williams, iii. 27.)— This is the September Massacre, otherwise called... ...s; the Clermont Vache (huge Cow that she is) disclosing herself (See Helen Maria Williams. Letters, iii. 79-81.) at intervals; flinging off her cloud-... ...Attila’s- Camp and Battlefield thou now seest, on this very ground; (Helen Maria Williams, iii. 32.) who, after sweeping bare the world, was, with dif... ...ied together, feet and feet, hands and hands: and flung in: this they call Mariage Republicain, Republican Marriage. Cruel is the panther of the woods... ...ich Seven Years War, did not the great Fritz wrench Silesia from the great Theresa; and a Pompadour, stung by epigrams, satisfy herself that she could...

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... moreover, if the said Willm. Shagspere do not proceed to solemnization of mariadg with the said Anne Hathwey, without the con- sent of hir frinds;—th... ...is own hands and arms ar- rayed in the antique habiliments of Charlemagne, Maria Theresa—she whose children where summoned to so sad a share in the co... ... hands and arms ar- rayed in the antique habiliments of Charlemagne, Maria Theresa—she whose children where summoned to so sad a share in the coming c... ...’s talents; and his Fiesco, his Intrigue and Love, his Don Carlos, and his Maria Stuart, followed within a short period of years. None of these are so...

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...ud, rosebud red, Heathrose fair and tender! 1779.* Blindman’s Buff. Oh, my Theresa dear! Thine eyes, I greatly fear, Can through the bandage see! Alth... ... region flows, Ever clear and never failing. As round ev’ry world it goes— MARIA AEGYPTIACA (Acta Sanctorum). By the sacred spot immortal, Where the L... ...onour of the marriage of the hereditary Prince of Weimar to the Prin- cess Maria of Russia, and performed in 1804. 485 Goethe Brighter now glow’d his... ...minstrel, thou time-honour’d one! 142 Oh, Magdeberg the town! 110 Oh, my Theresa dear! 30 Oh prophetic bird so bright, 115 Oh radiance-spreading O...

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...ed, and fastened to the gate of the city with his dagger a copy of the Ave Maria. It was a wildly brave action, and yet not without service in showing... ...rse of the long dismal conflict between Frederick the Great of Prussia and Maria Theresa of Austria, which was called the Seven Years’ War. Louis XV .... ... the long dismal conflict between Frederick the Great of Prussia and Maria Theresa of Austria, which was called the Seven Years’ War. Louis XV . of Fr... ...nd returning to her prayers, vowed, poor lady, to make a pilgrimage to St. Maria Zell, in Styria, if the Holy Virgin’s intercessions obtained their su... ...ut also many an action of the noblest order; and the short sketch given by Maria Edgeworth of her ancestry, presents such a chequerwork of the gold an... ... the rising power of Napoleon. This latter Mr. Edgeworth was the father of Maria, whose works we hope are well known to our young readers. The good Ch...

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... a hypocrite, who burns impatiently to make his niece Queen of France.” “That cannot be, mademoiselle, since M. le Cardinal, on the contrary, has brou... ...ocrite, who burns impatiently to make his niece Queen of France.” “That cannot be, mademoiselle, since M. le Cardinal, on the contrary, has brought ab... ...d certainly have happened if I had made your niece my wife. I am perfectly aware of this, and will hence- forth oppose nothing to the accomplishment o... ...ainly have happened if I had made your niece my wife. I am perfectly aware of this, and will hence- forth oppose nothing to the accomplishment of my d... ...thanks to one of those little corsairs of which D’Artagnan had been told during his voyage, and which, shaped for fast sailing and destined for the ch...

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... at that instant a tall Austrian general in a greatcoat, with the order of Maria Theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, who had evide... ...at instant a tall Austrian general in a greatcoat, with the order of Maria Theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, who had evidently j... ...im his own house. The Minister of War came up and congratulated him on the Maria Theresa Order of the third grade, which the Emperor was conferring on... ... own house. The Minister of War came up and congratulated him on the Maria Theresa Order of the third grade, which the Emperor was conferring on him. ... ... thanksgiving service was arranged, Kutuzov was awarded the Grand Cross of Maria Theresa, and the whole army received rewards. Bolkonski was invited e... ...sgiving service was arranged, Kutuzov was awarded the Grand Cross of Maria Theresa, and the whole army received rewards. Bolkonski was invited everywh...

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...n, the eldest of the three daughters was married, the two younger remained—Maria Salome, and Frederike, to whom the poet principally devoted himself. ... ...ore in his old age Goethe came under the sover- eignty of a woman. She was Marianne von Willemer, the newly married wife of a Frankfort banker. Goethe... ... which he took in the Rhine country. The correspondence between Goethe and Marianne was published in 1877. It extends almost to the day of his death, ... ...endid as the former one, it was dignified by the pres- ence of the Empress Maria Theresa, whose beauty appears to have created as much impression on t... ...as the former one, it was dignified by the pres- ence of the Empress Maria Theresa, whose beauty appears to have created as much impression on the men... ... and those of like mind appreciated the beauty and other good qualities of Maria Theresa, and even did not grudge the Emperor Francis his love of jewe... ...hose of like mind appreciated the beauty and other good qualities of Maria Theresa, and even did not grudge the Emperor Francis his love of jewellery ... ...nd on neither side was the affair conducted in the strictest manner. Maria Theresa, though then pregnant, comes in person to see the coronation of her... ... they are forced to keep quarantine together on the Venetian border. Maria Theresa is welcomed in the city with rejoicings: she enters the Roman Emper...

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...arles went back disappointed, and, on his way through Paris, saw Henrietta Maria, the bright-eyed sister of the King of France, and set his heart on m... ...so vexed that the king should marry a Ro- man Catholic princess, Henrietta Maria, who would not go to church with him, nor even let herself be crowned... ... in his own presence. But he told his wife what he intended, and Henrietta Maria was so foolish as to tell Lady Carlisle, one of her ladies, and she s... ...ht hand, and vowed that no meaner person should ever touch it. The Empress Maria Theresa, of Germany, had a long war with Frederick, King of Prussia, ... ...d, and vowed that no meaner person should ever touch it. The Empress Maria Theresa, of Germany, had a long war with Frederick, King of Prussia, who wa...

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...e fast-hastening genera- tion responds to another. Glance at Beaumarchais’ Mariage de Figaro; which now (in 1784), after difficulty enough, has is- su... ...wailings, soft womanly meltings, though thou hast the heart of an imperial Theresa’s Daughter. Thou doomed one, shut thy eyes on the future!— And so, ... ...ess and resolve, this day. She alone saw clearly what she meant to do; and Theresa’s Daughter dares do what she means, were all France threatening her... ...him. She has courage for all noble daring; an eye and a heart: the soul of Theresa’s Daughter. ‘Faut il-donc, Is it fated then,’ she passionately writ... ...hat did not see her in these moments cannot well have an idea of. ’ O thou Theresa’s Daughter! King Louis enters, much blown with the fatigue; but for... ...g, her bower thatched with rushes;—catch- ing premature rheumatism. (Helen Maria Williams, Letters from France (London, 1791-93), iii. 96.) Clermont m... ...as Sieyes says, ‘the veto of scoundrels, ’ Roland veto des coquins. (Helen Maria Williams, iii. 27.)— This is the September Massacre, otherwise called... ...s; the Clermont Vache (huge Cow that she is) disclosing herself (See Helen Maria Williams. Letters, iii. 79-81.) at intervals; flinging off her cloud-... ...attlefield thou 391 Thomas Carlyle now seest, on this very ground; (Helen Maria Williams, iii. 32.) who, after sweeping bare the world, was, with dif...

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...s crypt lie several of the great dead of the House of Habsburg, among them Maria Theresa and Napoleon’s son, the Duke of Reichstadt. Hereabouts was a ... ...t lie several of the great dead of the House of Habsburg, among them Maria Theresa and Napoleon’s son, the Duke of Reichstadt. Hereabouts was a Roman ...

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...e history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from...

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...experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little g... ... back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa’s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-vo... ...ived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there... ...d mere inconsistency 4 Middlemarch and formlessness; for these later-born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perf... ... fellowship with its own oary- footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an u... ...closely as a bracelet; but the 10 Middlemarch circle suited the Henrietta-Maria style of Celia’s head and neck, and she could see that it did, in the...

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...e history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from...

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... experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little g... ... back from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa’s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many vo... ...ived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there... ...struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness; for these later born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perf... ...n fellowship with its own oary footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart beats and sobs after an u... ...fitted almost as closely as a bracelet; but the circle suited the Henrietta Maria style of Celia’s head and neck, and she could see that it did, in the...

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... ones! I am old now; but not so old but that I kindle at the tale of love. Theresa MacWhirter too has lived and loved. Heigho! Who is yon chief that s... ...hat the forgotten tale of the great Dumas reappears under the signature of Theresa MacWhirter. Whistlebinkie, N. B., December 1. 256 Thackeray REBECC... ...ly, and asked “what that ugly great stick was?” Lady Huntingdon, late Maid Marian, had still some of her old fun and spirits, and poor Ivanhoe begged ... ... “Gillian’s dead, Heaven rest her bier, How I loved her twenty years syne! Marian’s married, but I sit here, Alive and merry at forty year, Dipping my... ...ty in the Countess—a freck- led, blowsy thing, whom they used to call Maid Marian: though, for the matter of that, what between her flirtations with M... ... de Coverley in the very same set with Rowena—(who was disgusted that Maid Marian took precedence of her)—he saw little Athelstane overeat himself at ... ...n the list we place—His Royal Highness Louis Anthony Frederick Samuel Anna Maria, Duke of Brittany, and son of Louis XVI. The unhappy Prince, when a p... ... the first night when she stopped to see it; and when Madamsalls Fanny and Theresa Hustler came forward, along with a gentleman, to dance, you should ...

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... at that instant a tall Austrian general in a greatcoat, with the order of Maria Theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, who had evide... ...at instant a tall Austrian general in a greatcoat, with the order of Maria Theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, who had evidently j... ...im his own house. The Minister of War came up and congratulated him on the Maria 90 War & Peace Theresa Order of the third grade, which the Emperor w... ...Minister of War came up and congratulated him on the Maria 90 War & Peace Theresa Order of the third grade, which the Emperor was conferring on him. ... ...hanksgiving service was ar- ranged, Kutuzov was awarded the Grand Cross of Maria Theresa, and the whole army received rewards. Bolkonski was invited e... ...iving service was ar- ranged, Kutuzov was awarded the Grand Cross of Maria Theresa, and the whole army received rewards. Bolkonski was invited everywh...