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Beryl the Peril first appeared in the first issue of The Topper in 1953. She was created to be a female equivalent to The Beano's Dennis the Menace. Davey Law, her artist and creator, drew inspiration from his daughter, who would often pull faces during her tantrums. [1]
Female dandies did overlap with male dandies for a brief period during the early 19th century when dandy had a derisive definition of "fop" or "over-the-top fellow"; the female equivalents were dandyess or dandizette. [34] Charles Dickens, in All the Year Around (1869) comments, "The dandies and dandizettes of 1819–20 must have been a strange ...
Joan Leslie (born Joan Agnes Theresa Sadie Brodel; January 26, 1925 – October 12, 2015) was an American actress and vaudevillian, who during the Hollywood Golden Age, appeared in films such as High Sierra (1941), Sergeant York (1941) and Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).
It Was Always So Easy (To Find An Unhappy Woman) is the second album by country singer Moe Bandy (Marion Franklin Bandy, Jr.) released in 1974 on the GRC Label.
After two exact but conventional [citation needed] books (on the dandy and on Theodore Dreiser), Moers was caught up by Second-wave feminism, which she credits with "pulling me out of the stacks" [1] and leading her to write Literary Women. In the latter she established the existence of a strong nineteenth-century tradition of (international ...
Zia McCabe (born Aimee Springer; June 2, 1975) [2] is an American musician and realtor. [3] She plays keyboards, percussion and bass guitar, and is a member of American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols.
The historical feminine rough equivalent of the flâneur, the passante (French for 'walker', 'passer-by'), appears prominently in the work of Marcel Proust.He portrayed several of his female characters as elusive, passing figures, who tended to ignore his obsessive (and at times possessive) view of them.
This is a list of peerages created for women in the peerages of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom. It does not include peerages created for men which were later inherited by women, or life peerages created since 1958 under the Life Peerages Act 1958. Background Prior to the regular creation of life peerages, the great majority of peerages were created for men ...