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Mary Anne Atwood (née South) (1817 – 1910) was an English writer on hermeticism and spiritual alchemy. Atwood was born in Dieppe , France but grew up in Gosport , Hampshire . Her father, Thomas South, was a researcher into the history of spirituality, and she assisted and collaborated with her father from her youth.
Mary Chesnut was born on March 31, 1823, on her maternal grandparents' plantation, called Mount Pleasant, near Stateburg, South Carolina, in the High Hills of Santee.Her parents were Stephen Decatur Miller (1788–1838), who had served as a U.S. Representative, and Mary Boykin (1804–85).
Eileen Mary Challans (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983), known by her pen name Mary Renault (/ ˈ r ɛ n oʊ l t / [2]), [1] was a British writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece. [3] Born in Forest Gate in 1905, she attended St Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1924 until 1928.
Mary Amelia Ingalls (January 10, 1865 – October 20, 1928) was born near the town of Pepin, Wisconsin. She was the first child of Caroline and Charles Ingalls and older sister of writer Laura Ingalls Wilder , known for her Little House book series.
Mary Rosenblum (born Mary Freeman; [1] June 27, 1952 – March 11, 2018) was an American science fiction and mystery author ... near an airfield south of La Center ...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) [1] was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling—about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn—won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939 [2] and was later made into a movie of the same name.
Fashion designer Mary Quant, who is widely credited for inventing the miniskirt and pioneering Swinging Sixties style, has died aged 93.. Her clothes were popularised by famous faces including ...
The 2013 film Saving Mr. Banks is a dramatised retelling of both the working process during the planning of Mary Poppins and of Travers's early life, drawing parallels with Mary Poppins and that of the author's childhood. The film stars Emma Thompson as P. L. Travers and Tom Hanks as Walt Disney.