"Betty Rubble Betty Rubble is a fictional character in the television animated series ""The Flintstones"" and its spin-offs and live-action motion pictures. She is the black-haired wife of caveman Barney Rubble and the adoptive mother of Bamm-Bamm Rubble. Her best friend is her next-door neighbor Wilma Flintstone. Betty lives in the fictional prehistoric town of Bedrock, a world where dinosaurs coexist with cavepeople and the cavepeople enjoy primitive versions of modern conveniences such as telephones, automobiles and washing machines. Betty's personality was based on the stock character of the lead character's best friend's wife, commonly seen in 1950s television (other"
"tutor of her children. She was also a close friend of Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, their friendship dating from the time when they had both served in the household of Queen Mary. According to author Vincent P. Carey, Mabel ""maintained a refuge and library for the Jesuit missionary Robert Rochfort. Despite her overt Roman Catholicism, Mabel was never accused of treason against Queen Elizabeth, unlike her husband who fell under increasing suspicion of disloyalty in his later years and spent several years in the Tower of London. Elizabeth however had a certain fondness for him and refused to take"
"a strong sense of humor."" This was obviously true as there is a very well known letter from her to her husband that says ""I still find myself under the disagreeable necessity of conversing with you on paper or not at all."" Because of location of her home and her station of being married to a Senator, she found her friends in high places also. Her best friend was Rachel Jackson, Andrew Jackson's wife. This was still an isolated location and given the scandalization of the Jackson marriage, Rachel did not have very many friends. However, she did have a"
"she moved to Cambridge, England to visit relatives, including her cousin ""Mrs Potts"" In 1874 she married the classicist Richard Claverhouse Jebb. They lived in Glasgow, where her husband was a professor, but spent summers in Cambridge until the death of Benjamin Hall Kennedy vacated the Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge. Her social circle included Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot, Charles Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ellen Terry, Mark Twain, and William Thackeray. Her niece, Maud du Puy, daughter of her sister Ellen followed her to England and she"
"most distinguished of her contemporaries. Fox, who much admired her, Burke, Sheridan, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Canning were frequent visitors. She was also on friendly terms with Charles Burney and Sarah Burney and Hester Thrale. Sheridan dedicated the ""School for Scandal"" to her, and some lines addressed to her by Fox were printed at the Strawberry Hill Press in 1775. Three portraits by Reynolds have been engraved, in one of which she appears with her brother as Hebe and Cupid. She died on 23 December 1818. Frances Crewe, Lady Crewe Frances Anne Crewe, Lady Crewe, ""née"" Greville (November 1748 –"
"of Friends. Elizabeth functioned as a housewife while Henry Drinker was a partner of the James & Drinker shipping and importing firm in Philadelphia. Elizabeth and Henry had five children who all survived to adulthood: Sarah, Ann, William, Henry, and Mary. Her affluence, due to her husband's employment, and her own education allowed her the literacy and leisure time to keep a diary of her life for 50 years. Elizabeth and Henry wrote often to one another while Henry was kept prisoner at Masonic Lodge, as many fellow Quakers were for their pacifist beliefs during the American Revolutionary War. From"
"a son, Robert Wiedeman Barrett Browning, whom they called Pen. Their son later married, but had no legitimate children. At her husband's insistence, Elizabeth's second edition of ""Poems"" included her love sonnets; as a result, her popularity increased (as well as critical regard), and her artistic position was confirmed. The couple came to know a wide circle of artists and writers including William Makepeace Thackeray, sculptor Harriet Hosmer (who, she wrote, seemed to be the ""perfectly emancipated female"") and Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 1849 she met Margaret Fuller, and the female French novelist George Sand in 1852, whom she had"
"closest companion was a sister of her first husband, a Miss Handcock whose first name is not known. The shy Miss Handcock carried out most of the duties of domestic household management for Elizabeth. She was always noted politely by Vesey's correspondents, but she seems to have stayed in the background in the salon. Elizabeth Montagu was a very close friend, and Elizabeth co-operated with her in establishing a salon where repartee and intelligent discussion were more important than the usual drinking, card play, and sexual flirtation. They referred to their circle as the bluestocking philosophers. Her marriage meant Elizabeth"
"Elizabeth Blair Lee Elizabeth Blair Lee (born June 20, 1818, Kentucky; died September 13, 1906) was an American woman who lived through the American Civil War, and wrote hundreds of letters describing the events of the times to her husband, Samuel Philips Lee. She was born in Kentucky to Francis Preston Blair and Eliza Violet Gist Blair. She was the sister of Montgomery Blair, James Blair, and Francis Preston Blair, Jr. When the family moved to Blair House across the street from the White House, the President, Vice-President and Cabinet members were frequent guests. Elizabeth's best friend was President Andrew"
"of wit occasionally came from her lips without effort or preparation, but she forgot her epigrams as soon as she uttered them; indeed she was known on more than one occasion to repeat her own jests, forgetting their origin and attributing them to other people. Her friends among politicians and men of letters included the Duc d'Aumale, the Duke of Newcastle, Lords Grey and Clarendon, M. Van de Weyer, Bishop Wilberforce, Abraham Hayward, and Bernal Osborne. Among her associates who were nearer her own age, Sir William Harcourt (the nephew of her third husband), Lords Dufferin and Ampthill, Julian Fane,"
"Queen Elizabeth's suitors, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. Elizabeth's pet name for both of these men was ""Robin"", leading scholars to believe that Robin Starveling may be a satiric creation of Shakespeare's in their honour (or dishonour). Another suitor, Duke François (""Francis"") Hercule Alençon, may have similar connections with Francis Flute. It may also be a nod to the fact that tailors of the time were usually poor and skinny. In the 1935 Max Reinhardt film, he was played by the chubby, jovial Otis Harlan. Shakespeare constantly reflects on the problem of synecdoche"
"started a clothing society for small children and in 1820 a charitable bazaar. From 1806 Cobbold was known for Valentine Day cards which had verses written by herself and she published these in 1813 and 1814. The verses were attached to cleverly cut paper and it has been said that the skill of the cutting exceeded the quality of the poetry. There are extant oil paintings of Elizabeth and her husband John which are attributed to George Frost. Her son Richard Cobbold was also a noted writer. A rare species of shellfish, was named for her by George Sowerby. Elizabeth"
"Ernest Reyer, James Pradier, Auguste Préault, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Auguste Clésinger and Édouard Manet. Gustave Flaubert, Théophile Gautier and some others have written articles about her and she was one of four women (Caroline, Jeanne Duval, herself and Marie Daubrun) who inspired Charles Baudelaire's famous work ""Les Fleurs du Mal"". Edmond de Goncourt was the first to nickname her ""La Présidente"". In Gustave Courbet's painting ""L'Atelier du peintre"" she is said to be shown together with her longtime lover, the Belgian tycoon Alfred Mosselman (1810-1867). After his death she was the longtime mistress to art collector and donor to the"
"and best friend"" until his death in 1822, when she transferred her affections to the other great 19th-century Anglo-Irish peer, the Duke of Wellington. All social commentators of the time, however, agree that her marriage was happy; indeed, her husband was as close a friend of Wellington's as was his wife. Married to a politician, she was fascinated by politics and enjoyed success as a political hostess while exerting her energies to promote Tory causes. However, while she was the dominant partner, her conservative outlook ensured her continued favour among her elderly Tory admirers. During the early part of her"
"published works were four brief pieces written for Samuel Johnson's journal ""The Rambler"" in 1750. She was married in 1760 to the solicitor John Chapone (c.1728–1761), who was the son of an earlier moral writer, Sarah Chapone (1699–1764), but soon widowed. Hester Chapone was associated with the learned ladies or Bluestockings who gathered around Elizabeth Montagu, and was the author of ""Letters on the Improvement of the Mind"" and ""Miscellanies"". She died at Hadley, Middlesex, on 25 December 1801. The former was first written for her 15-year-old niece, in 1773, but by 1800 it had been through at least 16"
"fruitflies (""Drosophila melanogaster""). She had two publications and four children between the years 1940 and 1946 (three boys, Richard, John, and James and a girl, Ellen). The nickname ""Tibby"" came from her husband, because they worked in a laboratory with several other women named Elizabeth. In 1947 Russell's marriage ended in divorce, but she maintained a good relationship with her ex-husband. Later that year the Jackson Memorial Laboratory burnt down, killing the majority of the research animals. Elizabeth was in charge of obtaining new mice from laboratories around the world. Russell went on to genetically characterize many laboratory animals for"
"clerk and later founded his own patent agency in Montreal known as Alan Swabey & Co. Swabey's firm eventually became Swabey Ogilvy Renault (the patent agency associated with Ogilvy Renault), which in turn merged with various firms to form Norton Rose Fulbright Canada. Helen and Alan Swabey later divorced, and she was remarried to Averill Stowell. Elizabeth (b. 1913, also known as ""Betty"") was well known as a socialite in Ottawa in her early life, a pursuit encouraged by her mother, but she was later better known as a poet and writer. Her most famous work was her semi-autobiographical poetic"
"volume ii. of Mrs. Barbauld's ""Correspondence of Samuel Richardson"". She contributed the story of ""Fidelio and Honoria"" to ""The Adventurer""; was eulogised by John Duncombe as Eugenia in his ""Feminead"", 1754; and, after a protracted courtship, they were married on 20 April 1763, and went to his living in Kent, taking her father with them. Later resident in Green Court of the close of Canterbury Cathedral, she was a friend of Eliza Berkeley, and kept cats. In 1773, she furnished a frontispiece to volume i. of her husband's ""Letters by John Hughes""; she also wrote a few poems in the"
"Elizabeth Charles Elizabeth Rundle Charles (2 January 1828 – 28 March 1896) was an English writer. She was born at Tavistock, Devon, the daughter of John Rundle, MP. Some of her youthful poems won the praise of Tennyson, who read them in manuscript. In 1851 she married Andrew Paton Charles. She was affiliated with the Anglican Church, and died at Hampstead, London, in 1896. Her best known book, written to order for an editor who wished for a story about Martin Luther, ""The Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family"", was published in 1862, and was translated into most of the European"
"commit the keeping and education of the Lady Elizabeth our daughter to the Lord Harington and the Lady his wife"". Elizabeth lived at the Abbey for the next five years. Her tutor and chaplain was Master John Tovey, the headmaster of the Free School at Coventry. Elizabeth's favourite childhood companion was Ann Dudley, a niece of Lord Harington, and with her she formed a lasting friendship. In 1604 the famous Gunpowder Plot was conceived. It was planned that King James and his two sons were to be killed, leaving the Princess Elizabeth as Queen. Elizabeth was to be kidnapped and"
"Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She published ""Felicita, a Metrical Romance"" (1855), ""Poems"" (1867), and ""Bianco Capello, A Tragedy"", written during her time abroad (1873). She married Edmund Burke Stedman in 1830 at age 19. He who died of tuberculosis in December 1835. They had two sons, the eldest was the poet and critic Edmund Clarence Stedman. In 1841, she married the U.S. diplomat and politician, William Burnet Kinney. They had two children: Her great-great-grandsons are businesspeople Frederick R. Koch, Charles Koch, David Koch, and Bill Koch. Elizabeth Clementine Stedman Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman (1810–1889) was an American writer."
"Vaux described her as ""that accursed woman"". She and Russell had three sons, all of whom she tutored at home, perhaps lending them a rather distinctive approach to life: Benjamin Disraeli said in conversation, ""I think she is the most fortunate woman in England, for she has the three nicest sons."" Elizabeth, Lady William Russell Elizabeth Anne, Lady William Russell (1793–1874) was the wife of Lord George Russell and a notorious socialite. Elizabeth Anne was the only child of Captain the Hon. John Theophilus Rawdon (died 1808), the brother of Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings. She married Russell on"
"professional form. It is carefully contextualized and enriched with statistics. She wrote about forty other novels, some monographs and memoirs. A friend of Marie Curie, she welcomed Marie and her daughters into her home and gave them shelter during the ""affaire Langevin"", a revelation made by the press of an extramarital affair between Marie Curie and Paul Langevin. Marguerite Borel took part in the political life of Saint-Affrique and participated in the electoral campaigns of her husband, Émile Borel. Marguerite herself was deputy mayor of Saint-Affrique from 1947 to 1954. In February 1928, Camille Marbo succeeded Mme Jean Dornis as"
"Julian; whose first marriage was to Victor Goodman and second marriage was to Igor Vinogradoff. Morrell had a long affair with philosopher Bertrand Russell, with whom she exchanged more than 3,500 letters. Her lovers may have included the painters Augustus John, and Henry Lamb, the artist Dora Carrington, the art historian Roger Fry, and in her later years there was even a brief affair with a gardener, Lionel Gomme, who was employed at Garsington. Her circle of friends included many authors, artists, sculptors and poets. Her work as a patron was enduring and influential, notably in her contribution to the"
"Jane Digby Jane Elizabeth Digby, Lady Ellenborough (3 April 1807 – 11 August 1881) was an English aristocrat, famed for her remarkable love life and lifestyle. She had four husbands and many lovers, including King Ludwig I of Bavaria, his son King Otto of Greece, statesman Felix zu Schwarzenberg, and a Greek general (Christodoulos Hatzipetros). She died in Damascus, Syria, as the wife of Arab Sheikh Medjuel el Mezrab, who was 20 years her junior. Jane Elizabeth Digby was born in Holkham Hall, Norfolk, Dorset on 3 April 1807, daughter of Admiral Henry Digby and Lady Jane Elizabeth. Jane's father"
"wife Julia Hammersley. Her younger brother, Walter Jekyll (an Anglican priest; sometime Minor Canon of Worcester Cathedral and Chaplain of Malta), was a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, who borrowed the family name for his famous novella ""Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"". In 1848 her family left London and moved to Bramley House, Surrey, where she spent her formative years. She never married and had no children. Jekyll was one half of one of the most influential and historical partnerships of the Arts and Crafts movement, thanks to her association with the English architect, Edwin Lutyens, for whose projects she"
"de Feuillide"". She came back to England with her mother in 1790, after the beginning of the French Revolution. Her husband, who was loyal to the French monarchy, was arrested for conspiracy against the Republic and guillotined in 1794. Her first cousin Henry Thomas Austen, brother of Jane Austen, then courted Eliza, and married her in December 1797; they had no children. Eliza's only son, Hastings (named after Warren Hastings), died in 1801. Eliza died in April 1813, with Jane Austen at her bedside. Eliza and Austen had been quite close ever since she arrived in England. She is buried"
"her husband Francis P. ""Frank"" Edwards in 1942, and had two children, Jane and Frank. She died in 1982 and was buried alongside her younger sister Phyllis Mary F. Brown, known as ""Pip"", (1920–1977), to whom her ""Naughty Little Sister"" books were dedicated. She was survived by her husband, who died two years later. Edwards' most famous stories are of ""My Naughty Little Sister"", which she conceived to keep her daughter, Jane, quiet whilst on a family holiday in 1950. She wrote five books of these stories, which were illustrated by Shirley Hughes. She wrote several other children's story books"
"who had come to Edinburgh as a printer and engraver. They married in June 1815. Christian Isobel Johnstone wrote a number of popular fiction works in three and four volumes, for adults and juvenile readers. Her novel ""Clan-Albin: A National Tale"" (1815) was perhaps her best-known work; she also wrote ""The Saxon and the Gaël"" (1814), and ""her best novel,"" ""Elizabeth de Bruce"" (1827), among other titles. Johnstone also wrote non-fiction books on a range of subjects, like ""Scenes of Industry Displayed in the Beehive and the Anthill"" (1827) and ""Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier"" (1831). These"
"in Ireland until 1642 when she was trapped in Athlone Castle for four months due to the rebellions in Ireland. Frustrated, she moved to London with her four children in tow. In the mid-1640s in London, she came to be a friend and supporter of John Milton, sending him as pupil her nephew Richard Barry in 1645. Some time later, Milton also taught her son Richard. Apart from Samuel Hartlib and his closest ally John Dury, she knew John Beale, Arnold Boate and Gerard Boate, Sir Cheney Culpeper, Theodore Haak, William Petty, Robert Wood, and Benjamin Worsley. Christopher Hill suggested"
"Ross became friends with Isherwood's old friend Edward Upward and his wife Hilda, who were also communists. According to Ross's daughter Sarah Caudwell, Jean disliked her popular identification with the character of Sally Bowles, thinking the character to be vacuous and more reflective of Isherwood's flamboyant male friends. When ""Cabaret"" was first staged in 1966, Ross was tracked down by reporters, but refused to speak about the subject. She also turned down invitations to view the show. In addition to acting and modeling, Ross wrote under the pseudonym ""Peter Porcupine."" In the mid-1930s she married Claud Cockburn, a left-wing Anglo-Scots"
"to her husband that combine trivial observations of Voltaire's appearance and habits with philosophical thoughts. For almost two decades Amélie was the closest female friend of the Marquis de Condorcet. He wrote her many letters describing his personal problems and his views on current affairs. Amélie and her husband became close friends of Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert when he began to frequent Necker's salon in the 1770s. The Suards held a salon frequented by people such as Joseph Joubert, Madame Geoffrin, Jacques Necker and his wife, D'Alembert and François-René de Chateaubriand. J. B. A. Suard was an acquaintance"
"continued to live with his mother. According to biographer, Julia Briggs,Bland continued to spend half of each week with his widowed mother and her paid companion, Maggie Doran,who also had a son by him, though Edith did not realize this until later that summer when Bland fell ill with smallpox. When, in 1880, Edith learned of her husband's affair with Maggie, she made friends with her. In 1886, Bland met Alice Hoatson, a friend of Edith, and in 1886 she became his mistress for the rest of his life. Bland had two children by Hoatson: Rosamund (b. 1886), his favourite"