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Lilias Mitchell
Lilias is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Lilias Armstrong (1882 – 1937), British phonetician * Lilias Craven, fictional character in the children's novel '' The Secret Garden'' (1911) * Lilias Folan (20th century), television show host * Lilias Mary Gower (1877 – 1959), Welsh croquet player * Lillias Maitland (1862–1932), one of the first women graduates from a Scottish university, University of Edinburgh 1893 * Lilias Massey, Chatelaine of Rideau Hall * Lilias Torrance Newton (1896 – 1980), Canadian painter * Lilias Trotter (1853 – 1928), Christian missionary in Algeria * Lillias Hamilton (1858 – 1925), British doctor * Lilias Rider Haggard Lilias Margitson Rider Haggard, MBE (9 December 1892 – 9 January 1968) was the fourth and youngest child of the British writer Sir Henry Rider Haggard and Mariana Louisa MargitsonDawson Haggard D.,''The History of the Haggard Family in England a ... (1892 – 1968), English writer * Lillias ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilias Armstrong
Lilias Eveline Armstrong (29 September 1882 – 9 December 1937) was an English phonetician. She worked at University College London, where she attained the rank of reader. Armstrong is most known for her work on English intonation as well as the phonetics and tone of Somali and Kikuyu. Her book on English intonation, written with Ida C. Ward, was in print for 50 years. Armstrong also provided some of the first detailed descriptions of tone in Somali and Kikuyu. Armstrong grew up in Northern England. She graduated from the University of Leeds, where she studied French and Latin. She taught French in an elementary school in the London suburbs for a while, but then joined the University College Phonetics Department, headed by Daniel Jones. Her most notable works were the 1926 book ''A Handbook of English Intonation'', co-written with Ward, the 1934 paper "The Phonetic Structure of Somali", and the book ''The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu'', published posthumous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilias Craven
''The Secret Garden'' is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialisation in '' The American Magazine'' (November 1910 – August 1911). Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made. The American edition was published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company with illustrations by Maria Louise Kirk (signed as M. L. Kirk) and the British edition by Heinemann with illustrations by Charles Heath Robinson. Plot summary At the turn of the 20th century, Mary Lennox is a neglected and unloved 10-year-old girl, born in British India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her and made an effort to ignore her. She is cared for primarily by native servants, who allow her to become spoilt, demanding and self-centred. After a cholera epidemic kills Mary's parents, the few surviving servants flee the house without Mary. She is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Garden
''The Secret Garden'' is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialisation in ''The American Magazine'' (November 1910 – August 1911). Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made. The American edition was published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company with illustrations by Maria Louise Kirk (signed as M. L. Kirk) and the British edition by Heinemann with illustrations by Charles Heath Robinson. Plot summary At the turn of the 20th century, Mary Lennox is a neglected and unloved 10-year-old girl, born in British India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her and made an effort to ignore her. She is cared for primarily by native servants, who allow her to become spoilt, demanding and self-centred. After a cholera epidemic kills Mary's parents, the few surviving servants flee the house without Mary. She is dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilias Folan
''Lilias, Yoga and You'' (later shortened to ''Lilias!'') is a PBS television show hosted by Lilias Folan, a Cincinnati, Ohio based practitioner of yoga as exercise. The show first aired on October 5, 1970 on Cincinnati PBS member station WCET and three years later was carried on PBS across the United States, where it ran until 1999. Yoga presenter Lilias Folan (born 1936) began to practice yoga as exercise in 1964, and was soon teaching at the YWCA in Stamford, Connecticut. She studied asanas under the yoga masters T. K. V. Desikachar, B. K. S. Iyengar, and Angela Farmer, and gained wider knowledge of yoga under the Sivananda Yoga masters Swami Vishnudevananda and Swami Satchidananda. She joined the Connecticut ashram of the Divine Life Society led by Swami Chidananda. In the 1980s she met Swami Muktananda, creator of Siddha Yoga, who told her to teach meditation. Through her show she became known to Americans as the "First Lady of Yoga". She is married with two sons and seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilias Mary Gower
Lily Gower, birth name Lilias Mary Gower (5 October 1877 — 29 July 1959) was a Welsh croquet player, a four-time winner of the Women's Championship."Lily Gower - "Championess" of England" By Allen Parker, ''South West Area News Letter'', 2002 Issue 20 She was one of the three women who have won the Open Championship, winning in 1905. She had won her very first public tournament at Budleigh Salterton, in 1898 and won the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilias Maitland
Lilias Maitland (1862–1932) was one of the first women graduates from a Scottish University at the University of Edinburgh who graduated in 1893. Home life Although Lilias Maitland was born in the parish of St Andrews and St Leonards, by the age of 17 lived at 21 Brighton Place, Portobello, Edinburgh, Portobello, where she matriculated from and remained during her studies and for the Census in the United Kingdom, census in 1881, 1891 and 1901. She died in 1932 in the parish of her birth. Early beneficiary of equal education of women Lilias Maitland was a member of the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women (EAUEW) which sought Female education, equality of education. Her final degree was M.A. in the Faculty of Arts with a First Class in Philosophical Honours. According to the register to the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women, held in the University of Edinburgh Library archive, Maitland was registered for studying at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilias Massey
Lilias Evva Massey (formerly Van Buskirk; ;"Mrs. Lionel Massey Leads Busy Social Life". ''Ottawa Citizen'', May 14, 1954. 1918 – January 19, 1997) was a Canadian dignitary, who served as châtelaine of Rideau Hall during her father-in-law Vincent Massey's term as Governor General of Canada. Vincent Massey was a widower whose wife Alice died 18 months before his appointment as Governor General. Lilias, who was married to Vincent and Alice Massey's son, Lionel, is to date the only person to have served as the official host or hostess of Rideau Hall who was not the Governor General's spouse. Due to the conventions of formal address that were used in the 1950s, she may also be referred to in some references as "Mrs. Lionel Massey" rather than by her own given name. However, she was not given the honorary style of Her Excellency,"Girl Who Grew Up Around Corner Rideau 'First Lady'". ''Toronto Star'', May 10, 1952. which is normally given to a Governor General's spouse, nor was she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viceregal Consort Of Canada
The viceregal consort of Canada is the spouse of the serving governor general of Canada, assisting the viceroy with ceremonial and charitable work, accompanying him or her to official state occasions, and occasionally undertaking philanthropic work of their own. As the host/hostess of the royal and viceroyal residence in Ottawa, the consort, if female, is also known as the '' chatelaine of Rideau Hall''. This individual, who ranks third in the Canadian order of precedence, after the Canadian monarch and the governor general, is addressed as ''His'' or ''Her Excellency'' while their spouse is in office, and is made ''ex officio'' an Extraordinary Companion (french: Compagnon Extraordinaire) of the Order of Canada and a Knight or Dame of Justice of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem. The present viceregal consort is Whit Fraser, the husband of Governor General Mary Simon, who took office on July 26, 2021. Role The position of the viceregal consort c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilias Torrance Newton
Lilias Torrance Newton LL. D. (November 3, 1896 – January 10, 1980) was a Canadian painterMayberry Fine Art biography /ref>Canadian Women Artists History Initiative biography /ref> and a member of the . She was one of the more important portrait artists in Canada in the twentiet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilias Trotter
Isabella Lilias Trotter (14 July 1853 – 27 August 1928) was a British artist and a Protestant missionary to Algeria. Early life Lilias Trotter was born in Marylebone, London, to Isabella and Alexander Trotter, a wealthy stockbroker for Coutts Bank. Both parents were well-read, intellectually curious, and inclined toward humanitarianism. Isabella Strange, a Low Church Anglican and the daughter of colonial administrator Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange, married Alexander after the death of his first wife, who had borne him six children. Lilias was the first of three children born to this second marriage. Although Lilias was devastated by the death of her father when she was twelve, the family's financial circumstances were only comparatively diminished by his loss. The next year, the family moved to 40 Montagu Square, where a next-door neighbor was writer Anthony Trollope. Career In her early twenties, Trotter and her mother were greatly influenced by the Higher Life Mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillias Hamilton
Lillias Anna Hamilton (7 February 1858 – 6 January 1925) was a British doctor and author. She was born at Tomabil Station, New South Wales to Hugh Hamilton (1822– 1900) and his wife Margaret Clunes (née Innes). After attending school in Ayr and then Cheltenham Ladies' College, she trained first as a nurse, in Liverpool, before going on to study medicine in Scotland, qualifying as a Doctor of Medicine in 1890. She was a court physician to Amir Abdur Rahman Khan in Afghanistan in the 1890s, and wrote a fictionalized account of her experiences in her book ''A Vizier's Daughter: A Tale of the Hazara War'', published in 1900. After a spell in private practice in London, she became Warden of Studley Horticultural College in the years before World War I, taking leave from the College in 1915 to serve in a typhoid hospital in Montenegro under the auspices of the Wounded Allies Relief Committee. Her published works include ''A Nurse's Bequest'', 1907. Early life and education ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilias Rider Haggard
Lilias Margitson Rider Haggard, MBE (9 December 1892 – 9 January 1968) was the fourth and youngest child of the British writer Sir Henry Rider Haggard and Mariana Louisa MargitsonDawson Haggard D.,''The History of the Haggard Family in England and America: 1433-1899'' (Albany, New York, 1899) - retrieved online at on 3 October 2010 and a cousin of the naval officer Sir Vernon Haggard and the diplomat Sir Godfrey Haggard. She was educated at Saint Felix School, Southwold, Suffolk. For her work as a Voluntary Aid Detachment auxiliary nurse during the First World War, she was awarded an MBE in 1920. She was a member of Norfolk County Council from 1949 to 1952 and in 1953 was elected president of the Norfolk Rural Craftsmen's Guild. She wrote a number of books, including a biography of her father entitled ''The Cloak That I Left''. Her book ''Norfolk Life'', based on columns she wrote for the ''Eastern Daily Press'', contains an introduction by Henry Williamson. She is buried ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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