Elizabeth Powell (actor)
Elizabeth Powell may refer to: * Elizabeth Powell (colonist) (fl. 1836), early settler of Texas * Elizabeth Powell (pianist), classical pianist * Elizabeth Powell (poet), American poet * Elizabeth Powell (scientist), Australian scientist * Elizabeth Dilys Powell (1901–1995), English journalist * Elizabeth Powell, lead singer and guitarist of the band Land of Talk See also * Elizabeth Willing Powel Elizabeth Willing Powel (February 21, 1743 – January 17, 1830) was an American socialite and a prominent member of the Philadelphia upper class of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The daughter, later sister and then wife of mayors of ...

Elizabeth Powell (colonist)
Elizabeth Powell was a Texas colonist who received a land grant for a league of land (4428 acres) from the Mexican government in present day Powell Point, Fort Bend County, Texas, on the waters of the San Bernard River and Turkey Creek. Powell operated a boarding house and bar that was a popular stop considering there were not many establishments in early Texas. Santa Anna's troops camped at Elizabeth Powell's boarding house before and after the Battle of San Jacinto. She had not fled with the Runaway Scrape The Runaway Scrape events took place mainly between September 1835 and April 1836 and were the evacuations by Texas residents fleeing the Mexican Army of Operations during the Texas Revolution, from the Battle of the Alamo through the decisive Ba ... and was there on April 10, 1836 and to witness the arrival of Urrea's army on April 20, the event is documented in the journals of the soldiers who camped there.Moore (2004), p. 187. On April 24, she was forced to house the ge ...
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Elizabeth Powell (pianist)
Elizabeth Powell may refer to: * Elizabeth Powell (colonist) (fl. 1836), early settler of Texas * Elizabeth Powell (pianist), classical pianist * Elizabeth Powell (poet), American poet * Elizabeth Powell (scientist), Australian scientist * Elizabeth Dilys Powell (1901–1995), English journalist * Elizabeth Powell, lead singer and guitarist of the band Land of Talk See also * Elizabeth Willing Powel Elizabeth Willing Powel (February 21, 1743 – January 17, 1830) was an American socialite and a prominent member of the Philadelphia upper class of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The daughter, later sister and then wife of mayors of ...

Elizabeth Powell (poet)
Elizabeth A. I. Powell (born 1965 in New York, New York) is an American poet and professor. She is the author of three books of poetry, ''Atomizer'', ''Willy Loman's Reckless Daughter: Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances'' and ''The Republic of Self''. She is the author of the novel "Concerning the Holy Ghost's Interpretation of JCREW Catalogues". In addition, Powell is the granddaughter of Donald H. Miller, Jr. a founder of Scientific American and a Director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Life She is professor of Writing and Literature at Northern Vermont University, where she is Editor-in-Chief of ''Green Mountains Review'', and is also a member of the MFA faculty at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. Literary journals that have published her work include "The New Republic", "The Women's Review of Books", ''American Poetry Review'', ''Missouri Review'', ''Ploughshares'', and ''Seneca Review'', among others. Her poetry has received critical attention in ...
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Elizabeth Powell (scientist)
Elizabeth Powell is an Australian scientist who, in collaboration with her colleagues, established an internationally recognised liver research group, which is making significant contributions to the study of liver disease. Education Elizabeth Powell is a graduate of The University of Queensland Medical School. She completed her early postgraduate training at the Royal Brisbane Hospital and completed her PhD at The University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B .... In 1992 she won a Menzies Scholarship to study at Oxford University, UK. She returned in 1994 to take up the position of Director of Clinical Training and Hepatologist at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. Subsequent periods of study included further training at Oxford University and Yale Univer ...
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Dilys Powell
Elizabeth Dilys Powell, CBE (20 July 1901 – 3 June 1995) was a British film critic and travel writer who contributed to ''The Sunday Times'' for more than 50 years. Powell was known for her receptiveness to cultural change in the cinema and coined many classic phrases about films and actors. She was a founding member of the Independent Television Authority (ITA), which launched commercial television in the UK. She was also the second female president of the Classical Association. Powell wrote several books on films and her travels in Greece. Early life and education Dilys Powell was born in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, to Thomas Powell (a bank manager) and Mary Jane Lloyd. She attended Talbot Heath School, Bournemouth before winning an exhibition to read Modern Languages at Somerville College, Oxford. Powell considered studying Classics (Literae Humaniores) – "Greats" – at Oxford University, but she was advised against it by her brother: '"Don't" he said; "the Classics are ...
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