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She married William Arthur Carter, a doctor, on June 5, 1890, and the couple had three children. In 1894 she founded Western Sorosis, a women's club. Margaret became a writer in 1901; [1] contributing articles for newspapers and magazines. [2] Her first novel, The cottonwood's story was published in 1903. [3]
Arthur John Carter (27 September 1847 – 4 November 1917) was an English born prominent businessman in Australia, Australian Consul to Norway and a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council (1901–17) who was made an officer of the Académie française in 1911 and received the Norwegian Order of St Olav in 1912. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Carter's first book was a biography of the art historian and spy Anthony Blunt, entitled Anthony Blunt: His Lives.It won the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Orwell Prize and was short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread Prize for Best Biography, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Jackie Fisher the First Sea Lord, at odds with Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, over the Gallipoli campaign, resigned on 15 May 1915. It set off a train of political events that led to the end of the Liberal Cabinet in favour of a coalition, the removal of Churchill, and then in 1916 Asquith's replacement as prime minister by Lloyd ...
Elizabeth Carter (pen name Eliza; 16 December 1717 – 19 February 1806) was an English poet, classicist, writer, translator, and linguist. As one of the Bluestocking Circle that surrounded Elizabeth Montagu , [ 1 ] she earned respect for the first English translation of the 2nd-century Discourses of Epictetus . [ 2 ]
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Magna Carta Cotton MS. Augustus II. 106, one of four surviving exemplifications of the 1215 text Created 1215 ; 809 years ago (1215) Location Two at the British Library ; one each in Lincoln Castle and in Salisbury Cathedral Author(s) John, King of England His barons Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury Purpose Peace treaty Full text Magna Carta at Wikisource Part of the Politics series ...
Amy Carter was born on October 19, 1967, in Plains, Georgia.Prior to her birth, the family held a vote whether their parents should try for a baby daughter. According to her brother: “The family voted a year before she was born on whether my parents ought to have a baby daughter, and a year later, there she was.