Margaret Foster (other)
Margaret Foster Margaret Mary Anne Foster (née Bray) is a New Zealand netball coach and former Silver Ferns player. Foster played 14 international matches from 1992 to 1997. She played domestic netball in the National Bank Cup for the Canterbury Flames, play ... is a netball coach. Margaret Foster may also refer to: * Margaret D. Foster (1895–1970), American chemist * Margaret Foster (writer), see List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction *Margaret Foster, character in 1976 British film ''Emily'' (1976 film) *Margaret Foster, character in 1980 American film ''9 to 5'' (film) See also * Maggie Foster (other) * Peggy Foster (active in 1970s), bassist of American female rock band The Runaways {{hndis, Foster, Margaret ...
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Margaret Foster
Margaret Mary Anne Foster (née Bray) is a New Zealand netball coach and former Silver Ferns player. Foster played 14 international matches from 1992 to 1997. She played domestic netball in the National Bank Cup for the Canterbury Flames, playing in 1998, 1999 and 2001. She also played for Canterbury for over ten years, and played one season for Wellington. Coaching career Foster also coached the team in 2000 and from 2002 to 2007. Foster took the Canterbury Flames to five final appearances, losing each time to the Southland-based Southern Sting. She also previously coached the New Zealand A squad. Foster was also a Silver Ferns selector, the sports analyst for the Silver Ferns at the Commonwealth Games, Manchester and the Netball World Cup, Jamaica where NZ won. After the National Bank Cup was replaced by the ANZ Championship in April 2008, Foster was replaced as coach of the Christchurch-based Canterbury franchise. She pulled out of an offer to be head coach of the Northern ...
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Margaret D
Margaret is a female first name, derived via French () and Latin () from grc, μαργαρίτης () meaning "pearl". The Greek is borrowed from Persian. Margaret has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. It became less popular between the 16th century and 18th century, but became more common again after this period, becoming the second-most popular female name in the United States in 1903. Since this time, it has become less common, but was still the ninth-most common name for women of all ages in the United States as of the 1990 census. Margaret has many diminutive forms in many different languages, including Maggie, Madge, Daisy, Margarete, Marge, Margo, Margie, Marjorie, Meg, Megan, Rita, Greta, Gretchen, and Peggy. Name variants Full name * (Irish) * (Irish) * (Dutch), (German), (Swedish) * (English) Diminutives * (English) * (English) First half * ( French) * (Welsh) Second half * (English ...
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Margaret Foster (writer)
Margaret Mary Anne Foster (née Bray) is a New Zealand netball coach and former Silver Ferns player. Foster played 14 international matches from 1992 to 1997. She played domestic netball in the National Bank Cup for the Canterbury Flames, playing in 1998, 1999 and 2001. She also played for Canterbury for over ten years, and played one season for Wellington. Coaching career Foster also coached the team in 2000 and from 2002 to 2007. Foster took the Canterbury Flames to five final appearances, losing each time to the Southland-based Southern Sting. She also previously coached the New Zealand A squad. Foster was also a Silver Ferns selector, the sports analyst for the Silver Ferns at the Commonwealth Games, Manchester and the Netball World Cup, Jamaica where NZ won. After the National Bank Cup was replaced by the ANZ Championship in April 2008, Foster was replaced as coach of the Christchurch-based Canterbury franchise. She pulled out of an offer to be head coach of the ...
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List Of Winners And Shortlisted Authors Of The Booker Prize For Fiction
4 The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work published in the United Kingdom and written in (not translated into) the English language. There have been three special awards celebrating the Booker's history. In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for ''Midnight's Children'' (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. ''Midnight's Children'' also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, for " The Best of the Booker". In 2018 a special " Golden Booker" was awarded celebrating 50 years of the award; this was won by Michael Ondaatje for ''The English Patient''. Winners, shortlists and longlists * Awarded in 2010 ...
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Emily (1976 Film)
''Emily'', also known as ''The Awakening of Emily'', is a 1976 British erotic historical drama film set in the 1920s directed by Henry Herbert, produced and written by Christopher Neame, and starring Koo Stark. The story revolves around a seventeen year old girl who is pursued by various middle aged men and women. The main setting of the film is Wilton House, which was the director's ancestral seat, and the countryside around it. An X-rated film, it has a cast of mainstream actors including Victor Spinetti, Sarah Brackett, Constantin de Goguel, Ina Skriver, Jeremy Child, Jack Haig, and Richard Oldfield. Its music was composed and sung by the singer and poet Rod McKuen. Plot Emily Foster (Koo Stark) is an American-born seventeen-year-old brought up in London. Her father died when she was a small child, while her mother, Margaret Foster (Sarah Brackett), is supported by a lover. The film, set in 1928, follows Emily as she returns home from a finishing school in Switzerland ...
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9 To 5 (film)
''9to5'' (listed in the opening credits as ''Nine to Five'') is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Colin Higgins, who wrote the screenplay with Patricia Resnick. It stars Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton as three working women who live out their fantasies of getting even with and overthrowing the company's autocratic, "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" boss, played by Dabney Coleman. The film grossed over $103.9 million. As a star vehicle for Parton—already established as a successful singer, musician and songwriter—it launched her permanently into mainstream popular culture. A television series of the same name based on the film ran for five seasons, and a musical play, based upon the film (also titled '' 9 to 5''), with new songs written by Parton, opened on Broadway on April 30, 2009. ''9 to 5'' is number 74 on the American Film Institute's "100 Funniest Movies" and has an 82% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. Plot ...
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Maggie Foster (other)
Maggie Foster may refer to: *Maggie Foster, character in ''George'' (1993 TV series) *Maggie Foster, character in ''Revolution'' (TV series) See also *Margaret Foster (other) Margaret Foster Margaret Mary Anne Foster (née Bray) is a New Zealand netball coach and former Silver Ferns player. Foster played 14 international matches from 1992 to 1997. She played domestic netball in the National Bank Cup for the Canterb ...