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A Woman Named Anne is a 1967 comedy novel by the British writer Henry Cecil. [1] The plot revolves around a divorce case involving a woman accused of adultery , who clashes with the lawyer ranged against her.
Daphne du Maurier's 1954 novel Mary Anne is a fictionalised account of the real-life story of her great-great-grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke, née Thompson (1776-1852). [1] It was published by Gollancz in the UK and by Doubleday in the US. Mary Anne Clarke from 1803 to 1808 was mistress of Frederick Augustus, the Duke of York and Albany (1763-1827).
Anne Locke (Lock, Lok) (née Vaughan) (c.1533 – after 1590) was an English poet, translator and Calvinist religious figure.. She has been called the first English author to publish a sonnet sequence, A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner (1560), although authorship of that work has arguably been attributed to Thomas Norton.
Mary Anne Raywid (1928–2010), American education scholar, author, and activist; Mary Anne Reiley, real name of Mame Reiley (1952–2014), American political activist and business leader; Mary Anne Richey (1917–1983), American district judge; Mary Anne Rymill (c. 1817–1897), New Zealand missionary, teacher, nurse, and companion
Mary Anne Hearn was born in Farningham in Kent in 1834 to Joseph Hearn and Rebecca Bowers, a religious Nonconformist couple in the Baptist denomination. [2] [3] In her memoir, she describes her thankfulness at having been raised in the country in a loving, devout, and amusing family. She tells the following anecdote about her father, a deacon ...
Although Wollstonecraft initially felt proud of Mary, a decade after its publication she no longer believed that the work aptly demonstrated her talents as an author; she wrote to Everina in 1797: "as for my Mary, I consider it as a crude production, and do not very willingly put it in the way of people whose good opinion, as a writer, I wish ...
"Mary Anne" originated from the titular name; Crenshaw explained, "I had the idea to write a song called 'Mary Anne,' that was the first thing. Just kinda the way the word rolls out of my mouth was a good thing." [1] The song was not written with anyone in mind—Crenshaw recalled, "I didn’t really know anybody named Mary Anne. It's just got ...
Williamson Randolph Winslow, Mary Winslow Chapman Anne Goodwin Winslow (June 14, 1875 – November 25, 1959) was an American novelist and short-story writer who published her first work of prose at the age of 68.