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Grace Horsley Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) was an English lighthouse keeper's daughter. Her participation in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838 brought her national fame.
Manina, the Girl in the Bikini (French: Manina, la fille sans voiles) released in the UK as Manina, the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter), is a 1952 French film directed by Willy Rozier and starring Brigitte Bardot, Jean-François Calvé and Howard Vernon.
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter; She has edited: Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World; More Bones: Scary Stories From Around The World; She also reviewed children's books for the St. Louis Post Dispatch for 27 years. Her biography is captured in: Contemporary Authors
It includes lighthouse keepers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Women lighthouse keepers" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
The Lighthouse Keepers (1929 film) The Lightkeepers (2009 film by Daniel Adams) Lighthouse Keeping Loonies (1975 TV series episode) The Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter a.k.a. Manina, the Girl in the Bikini (1952 film) Pete's Dragon (1977 film by Don Chaffey) "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" (1971 song by Van der Graaf Generator)
Gaynor's October 2018 novel The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter was a USA Today and Irish Times bestseller. Shortlisted for a Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown Award, [13] [14] the story of Grace Darling had fascinated Gaynor from a young age. [15]
There is a background chapter on the first recorded women lighthouse keepers, Irish nuns of the St. Anne's convent in County Cork who maintained the Youghal lighthouse during the years 1190–1542, [3] and the first American woman lighthouse keeper in 1775 at Boston Harbor when Hannah Thomas assumed her husband's lighthouse keeper duties as he ...
Walker, c. 1909 Katherine Walker (née Katharina Görtler; November 25, 1848 [1] – February 5, 1931) was a German-American lighthouse keeper.. Walker tended the Robbins Reef Light in New York Harbor for more than 30 years after the death of her husband, Captain John Walker, who had been appointed keeper of the light in 1885. [2]