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Stevenson was a founding member of the Liberal Party of Australia's Canberra branch on 27 January 1949, becoming president of the Women's Branch and an executive member of the NSW party. She was elected to the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council in 1951, a position she would hold until 1959.
Gladys Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx (née Baldwin; 12 January 1916 – 6 June 2018) was an English poet and the wife of Harold Wilson, who twice served as British prime minister. She was the first British prime minister's spouse to become a centenarian , living to the age of 102 years, 145 days.
Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland on 15 January 1803, Marjorie was the third child of the Kirkcaldy accountant James Fleming (died c. 1840) and his wife Isabella (daughter of James Rae), [2] also the name of her elder sister and of her cousin and friend Miss Crauford (variously spelled). Her uncle Thomas Fleming was minister of Kirkcaldy parish ...
Stevenson was the author of over a dozen volumes of poetry and books of essays and literary criticism, including two critical studies of the poet Elizabeth Bishop. Her 1989 biography of the American poet Sylvia Plath, Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath, sparked controversy; the ordeal that Stevenson endured in writing the book and in its ...
Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild.
(He shares daughters Kate, 44, and Alexis, 39, with his ex-wife Casey Coates, and is stepdad to Steenburgen's children Lilly Walton, 43, and Charlie McDowell, 41, whom she shares with ex-husband ...
Mary Borden (May 15, 1886 – December 2, 1968) (married names: Mary Turner; Mary Spears, Lady Spears; pseud. Bridget Maclagan) was an American-British novelist and poet whose work drew on her experiences as a war nurse. She was the second of the three children of William Borden (d. 1904), who had made a fortune in Colorado silver mining in the ...
Danson, 76, and Steenburgen, 71, initially crossed paths when he auditioned to play her husband in the 1983 movie “Cross Creek.” He was married at the time to Casey Coates, while she was ...