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A Monstrous Regiment of Women is the second book in the Mary Russell series of mystery novels by Laurie R. King. The title is taken from a work by John Knox , published in 1558, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regimen of Women . [ 1 ]
Aphra Behn (/ ˈ æ f r ə b ɛ n /; [a] bapt. 14 December 1640 [1] [2] – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era.As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors.
On the other hand, Gerald of Wales describes her as a puella (a girl or a young woman) at the time of her death in 1176. [2] She was certainly of age by 1166. Rosamund had three brothers, Walter (c. 1160 – 1221), Richard and Gilbert, and two sisters: Amice, and Lucy. Her name likely came from the Latin phrase rosa mundi, meaning "rose of the ...
Mumazes reigned (1675–1671 BC) – Daughter of king Bonu I. [129] Aruas (reigned 1671 BC) – Daughter of Mumazes. [128] Helena (reigned 1358–1347 BC) Makeda (reigned 1013–982 BC) – The Biblical queen of Sheba in Ethiopian tradition and mother of Menelik I. She succeeded to the throne after the death of her father king Kawnasya. [130]
In Lodore, Shelley focused her theme of power and responsibility on the microcosm of the family. [2] The central story follows the fortunes of the wife and daughter of the title character, Lord Lodore, who is killed in a duel at the end of the first volume, leaving a trail of legal, financial, and familial obstacles for the two "heroines" to negotiate.
Mary Kay began life as Mary Katherine Schmtiz. She was raised in a very Catholic strict household by mother Mary and her dad, John G. Schmitz, a California state senator and U.S. Representative.
Lord Wisbeach (The Real One) Piccadilly Jim's friend; Mr Sturgis, head of a detective agency; Miss Trimble, private detective and ardent socialist; Bud Smithers, owner of a dogs' home thought appropriate for Ogden by several conspirators; Lord Percy Whipple, the man who fights Piccadilly Jim in a club
In the 1540s, Pendennis Castle was built by King Henry VIII on part of the Arwenack estate belonging to the Killigrew family. Mary's father-in-law John III Killigrew (d. 1567) was appointed by the king as the first hereditary Governor of Pendennis Castle, and after his death Queen Elizabeth I appointed, as second Governor, his son, Sir John IV Killigrew.