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Elise Varner Winter (May 9, 1926 - July 17, 2021) was an American civic leader and activist who served as the Second Lady of Mississippi from 1972 to 1976 and as the First Lady of Mississippi from 1980 to 1984. She was an advocate for public education, affordable housing, prison reform, and advancement of the arts.
Downing was born on March 7, 1904, in Washington, D.C. [1] She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and worked as a translator of plays for Garson Kanin.She was in the 1990 play Richard III which also starred Denzel Washington.
Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928, inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend. It is arguably one of her most popular novels, a history of English literature in satiric form.
Virginia's bird fauna comprises 422 counted species, of which 359 are regularly occurring and 214 have bred in Virginia, while the rest are mostly winter residents or transients. [139] Water birds include sandpipers, wood ducks, and Virginia rail , while common inland examples include warblers, woodpeckers, and cardinals, the state bird .
William Winter Payne (January 2, 1807 – September 2, 1874) ... Payne returned to Virginia in 1847 and engaged in planting near Warrenton. He served as chairman of ...
Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen on 25 January 1882 at 22 Hyde Park Gate in South Kensington, London, [3] to Julia (née Jackson) and Sir Leslie Stephen. Her father was a writer, historian, essayist, biographer, and mountaineer, [ 3 ] described by Helena Swanwick as a "gaunt figure with a ragged red brown beard ... a formidable ...
Pro-segregationist lawyer in Virginia [32] Thomas Watt Gregory: 1884 Law Attorney General of the United States: Mark Herring: 1986 Graduate Attorney General of Virginia, member of the Senate of Virginia [33] Howell Edmunds Jackson: 1854 Graduate Justice, United States Supreme Court; U.S. Senator of Tennessee [34] Robert F. Kennedy: 1951 Law
Virginia Hall was born in Baltimore, Maryland on April 6, 1906, to Barbara Virginia Hammel and Edwin Lee Hall. [7] She attended Roland Park Country School and then Radcliffe College of Harvard University and Barnard College of Columbia University, where she studied French, Italian, and German. [7]