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Mary Roberts (poet)
Mary Roberts may refer to: *Mary Roberts (author) (1788–1864), English author *Mary Roberts (bodybuilder) (born 1950), American former professional female bodybuilder *Mary Roberts (painter) (?–1761), American first female miniaturist in the American colonies * Mary Roberts (poet), see 1822 in poetry * Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958), American author; maiden name Mary Roberts * Mary Roberts (1906–2019), Canadian supercentenarian *Mary Fanton Roberts (1864–1956), American journalist *Mary Grant Roberts (1841–1921), Australian zoo owner *Mary Helen Roberts (born 1947), American politician in the state of Washington * Mary Louise Roberts (physiotherapist) (1886–1968), New Zealand masseuse, physiotherapist, and mountaineer *Mary Louise Roberts (historian), American historian *Mary May Roberts (1877–1959), American nurse * Mary Wendy Roberts (born 1944), American politician in the state of Oregon *Cokie Roberts Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne "Cokie" Roberts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Roberts (author)
Mary Roberts (1788–1864) was an English author who predominantly wrote about natural history and the countryside around her. Life Roberts, born at Homerton, London, on 18 March 1788, was the daughter of Daniel Roberts, a merchant of London, and Ann, his wife. Ann Roberts was the daughter of Josiah Thompson, of Nether Compton, Dorset; her grandfather was the Quaker botanist, Thomas Lawson (botanist), Thomas Lawson, and her paternal great-great-grandfather was Daniel Roberts. Little is known about her early life, although it is known that in 1790 Mary Roberts moved with her parents to Painswick in Gloucestershire where she began writing her works on natural history. Although born and brought up a Quaker, Mary Roberts left the society after the death of her father, when she moved with her mother to Brompton Square, London. Mary Roberts died there on 13 January 1864, and was buried in Brompton cemetery. Some confusion has arisen between Miss Roberts and a cousin of the same name, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Roberts (bodybuilder)
Mary Roberts was one of the top professional female bodybuilders of the 1980s. She possessed a classic short (5-3), thick physique featuring an overwhelming upper body even as a lightweight. Roberts big arms, deltoids and chest with her mature looks and flashing, almost challenging dark eyes projected a very powerful, confident aura onstage. A three-page photospread in Muscle & Fitness magazine's September 1982 issue on various female bodybuilder physique types used Roberts, doing a side chest pose in a blue leotard, to epitomize the most heavily muscled physique. The copy quoted famed male bodybuilder Casey Viator as calling Roberts physique "awesome." In its advance story on the 1984 Ms. Olympia, Strength Training for Beauty noted that the 1984 Worlds turned into a contest between the "hypermuscular" women such as Roberts and winner Lori Bowen and the more middle-of-the-road women such as 1983 Ms. Olympia Carla Dunlap (who was among the most muscular just two years earlier). Bow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Roberts (painter)
Mary Roberts (died 1761) was an American miniaturist active in Charleston, South Carolina in the 1740s and 1750s. One of the earliest American miniaturists, and the first woman recorded as working in the medium in the American colonies,Saunders, Richard H. and Ellen G. Miles. ''American Colonial Portraits · 1700-1776''. Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. p. 163 she is also believed to have painted the first watercolor-on-ivory miniature in the colonies. Life Almost nothing is known about Roberts' life; what little may be gleaned about her comes from advertisements run in the ''South Carolina Gazette'' and from the wills of her contemporaries. She was the wife of painter Bishop Roberts, who first advertised his services in the ''Gazette'' in 1735, and again two years later. He claimed to be able to paint portraits, landscapes, and heraldry; to offer drawings for sale; to paint houses; and to print engravings as well. He is best remembered for a view of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Roberts (poet)
Mary Roberts may refer to: *Mary Roberts (author) (1788–1864), English author *Mary Roberts (bodybuilder) (born 1950), American former professional female bodybuilder *Mary Roberts (painter) (?–1761), American first female miniaturist in the American colonies * Mary Roberts (poet), see 1822 in poetry * Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958), American author; maiden name Mary Roberts * Mary Roberts (1906–2019), Canadian supercentenarian *Mary Fanton Roberts (1864–1956), American journalist *Mary Grant Roberts (1841–1921), Australian zoo owner *Mary Helen Roberts (born 1947), American politician in the state of Washington * Mary Louise Roberts (physiotherapist) (1886–1968), New Zealand masseuse, physiotherapist, and mountaineer *Mary Louise Roberts (historian), American historian *Mary May Roberts (1877–1959), American nurse * Mary Wendy Roberts (born 1944), American politician in the state of Oregon *Cokie Roberts Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne "Cokie" Roberts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1822 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *July – English poets Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt and Percy Bysshe Shelley agree to start ''The Liberal'', a quarterly published by John Hunt in London from 15 October; it lasts for four issues. *8 July – Percy Bysshe Shelley, returning from setting up ''The Liberal'' in Livorno to Lerici on the Ligurian Sea of Italy, is drowned as his boat, the ''Don Juan'', sinks in a storm. His decomposed body, washed ashore ten days later on the beach near Viareggio, is identified by a copy of Keats's '' Lamia'' and ''Isabella'' in the jacket pocket and cremated there in the presence of his friends Lord Byron and the adventurer Edward John Trelawny, who claims to have seized Shelley's heart from the flames. He gives it to Mary Shelley, who keeps it for the rest of her life. Shelley's ashes are interred at the Protestant Cemetery, Rome, where Keats was buried t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie.Keating, H.R.F., ''The Bedside Companion to Crime''. New York: Mysterious Press, 1989, p. 170. Rinehart published her first mystery novel ''The Circular Staircase'' in 1908, which introduced the " had I but known" narrative style. Rinehart is also considered the source of "the butler did it" plot device in her novel ''The Door'' (1930), although the exact phrase does not appear in her work. She also worked to tell the stories and experiences of front line soldiers during World War I, one of the first women to travel to the Belgian front lines. Biography Rinehart was born Mary Ella Roberts in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, now a part of Pittsburgh. A sister, Olive Louise, four years Mary's junior, would later gain recognition as an author of children's books and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. Her father was a frustrated inventor, and throughout he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Canadian Supercentenarians
This article lists Canadian supercentenarians (people from Canada who have attained the age of at least 110 years). The oldest verified Canadian person ever was Marie-Louise Meilleur, who died in 1998 aged 117 years, 230 days. As of , the oldest living person in Canada is Gertruda Gorecka, born 12 November 1911 in Poland, aged . 100 oldest known Canadians Biographies Sum Ying Fung Sum Ying Fung (née Eng, , 27 January 1899 – 6 December 2011), was a Chinese Canadian supercentenarian who was the oldest person in Canada in 2011. Sum Ying Eng was born in Wing On Village, Yanping, China in 1899. In 1926, she married Chong Lim Fung, who had been working in Canada since 1911. Chong Lim would travel to visit Sum Ying regularly in the ensuing years and they had three children. However, the Chinese Exclusion Act prevented her from joining her husband in Canada. In 1954, she emigrated to Canada under the sponsorship of her husband. The couple settled in Chinatown, Vancouver th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Fanton Roberts
Mary Fanton Roberts (1864–1956) was an American journalist and writer. She was best known as an editor of women's and decorating magazines. During her long career she was editor of the illustrated monthly ''Demorest's'', editor-in-chief of ''New Idea Woman's Magazine'', managing editor of ''The Craftsman'', and creator and editor of ''The Touchstone'' and ''Decorative Arts'' magazine. She often wrote articles on the topic of decorative arts and Interior design, home decorating, and published two books, ''Inside 100 Homes'' and ''101 Ideas for Successful Interiors''. She was also an avid gardener. She occasionally wrote criticism under the pen name, Giles Edgerton. Biography Roberts was born in Brooklyn, New York, but moved as a young girl to Deadwood, in the Montana territory. When she was old enough, she and her sister were sent back to New York to attend the Albany Female Academy. After finishing school, Roberts pursued journalism and became a staff writer for four years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Grant Roberts
Mary Grant Roberts (15 April 1841 – 27 November 1921) was an Australian zoo owner. Roberts owned Hobart Zoo from when it opened in 1895 until her death in 1921. The zoo was closed in 1937. Life and career Roberts was born in Hobart, Australia, on 15 April 1841. She was the youngest child of William Lindsay and Mary Lindsay née Willing. She married Henry Llewelyn Roberts on 18 August 1863 in St David's Cathedral in Hobart. Henry Roberts owned a woolbroking and stock-agency company. He died in 1919, aged 88. Roberts and her husband built their home, Beaumaris, in 1877 and it was opened as a zoo in 1895 as Beaumaris Zoo, later the name changed to Hobart Zoo. Roberts was the first person to breed Tasmanian Tigers, the last of which died in Hobart Zoo in 1936. Roberts was elected to the Zoological Society of London in 1910 and published an article on her work breeding Tasmanian Tigers in the ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' in 1915. Through her interest in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Helen Roberts
Mary Helen Roberts (born September 14, 1947) is an Americans, American politician who is a member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party. She is a former member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 21st district from 2005 to 2015. She did not seek re-election in 2014 and was succeeded by Strom Peterson. Born in Portland, Oregon, Roberts spent her childhood in Portland, Corvallis, Oregon and Southern California. After graduating from high school, she spend one year at Oregon State University and then transferred to UCLA, from where she graduated. She is openly gay. References Further reading Biography on Washington State Legislature website 1947 births Living people Democratic Party members of the Washington House of Representatives Women state legislators in Washington (state) LGBT state legislators in Washington (state) People from Lynnwood, Washington {{Washington-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Louise Roberts (physiotherapist)
Mary Louise Roberts (17 February 1886 – 27 May 1968) was a New Zealand masseuse, physiotherapist and mountaineer. She was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1886. She was New Zealand's most celebrated physiotherapist (before the coining of that name) and was for more the twenty years the principal of Dunedin Hospital school of massage, the only such training facility in New Zealand. In the 1946 King's Birthday Honours, Roberts was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o .... References 1886 births 1968 deaths New Zealand mountain climbers New Zealand physiotherapists Masseurs New Zealand female climbers Health professionals from Dunedin People educated at St Hilda's Collegiate School New Zealand Offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Louise Roberts (historian)
Mary Louise Roberts is an American historian currently the WARF Distinguished Lucie Aubrac Professor and Plaenert Bascom Professor of History at University of Wisconsin. For the 2020–2021 academic year, she additionally is Charles Boal Ewing Chair in Military History at the United States Military Academy. Works * ''D-Day through French Eyes: Memoirs of Normandy 1944'' (2014) * ''Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII'' (2021) * ''What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France'' (2013) * ''Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-De-Siecle France'' (2002) * * * * * * * * * References External links * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty American women historians 21st-century American historians 21st-century American women writers American military historians Women military writers {{US-historian-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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