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Mary Morris (other) (1862–1938), English craftswoman and designer
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Mary Morris (1915–1988) was a British actress. Mary Morris may also refer to: *Mary Philipse Morris (1730–1825), American socialite * Mary Morris Knowles (née Morris, 1733–1807), English Quaker poet and abolitionist *Mary Wells Morris (1764–1819), namesake of Wellsboro, Pennsylvania * Mary Morris Husband (née Morris, 1826–1894), American Civil War nurse *Mary Morris (doctor) (1873–1925), British doctor and suffragist *Mary Morris (American actress) (1895–1970) * Mary Morris (diarist) (1921–1997), Irish nurse and diarist *Mary McGarry Morris (born 1943), American novelist *Mary Morris (writer) (born 1947), American author See also *May Morris Mary "May" Morris (25 March 1862 – 17 October 1938) was an English artisan, embroidery designer, jeweller, socialist, and editor. She was the younger daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite artist and designer William Morris and his wife and artists' m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Morris
Mary Lilian Agnes Morris (13 December 1915 – 14 October 1988) was a Fijian born British actress. Life and career Morris was the daughter of Herbert Stanley Morris, a botanist, and his wife, Sylvia Ena de Creft-Harford. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Morris made her debut in ''Lysistrata'' at the Gate Theatre, London in 1935. She performed with Leslie Howard in ''"Pimpernel" Smith'' (1941) and Anna Petrovitch in the Ealing Studios, Ealing war movie ''Undercover (1943 film), Undercover'' (1943) as the wife of a Serbian guerrilla leader. On television, she played Professor Madeleine Dawnay in the science-fiction television drama ''A for Andromeda'' (and its sequel, ''The Andromeda Breakthrough''), Queen Margaret in the BBC's ''An Age of Kings'' (a version of Shakespeare's History Plays), Lady Macbeth in the 1960 radio production of Macbeth, and Cleopatra in ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (as part of the BBC's adaptation of Shakespeare's Roman plays, ''The Spread of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Philipse Morris
Mary "Polly" Philipse (1730–1825) was the middle daughter of Frederick Philipse II, 2nd Lord of Philipsburg Manor of Westchester County, New York. Of Anglo-Dutch extraction, she was a wealthy heiress (although strictly not so, as she had brothers who inherited from their father), possible early love interest of George Washington, and New York City socialite. Married to an ex-British army colonel, her Loyalist sympathies in the American Revolution reshaped her life. At the age of 22 she inherited one-third of her father's roughly "Highland Patent", which sprawled from the Hudson Highlands on the west bank of the lower Hudson River to the Connecticut Colony in the east. In 1758 she married in New York Englishman Roger Morris (January 1727 – September 1794), who had fought extensively in the French and Indian War. With Roger's appointment to the Governor's Council of the Province of New York the couple became pillars of the local establishment. A year after their marriage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Morris Knowles
Mary Morris Knowles (1733–1807), was an English Quaker poet and abolitionist. She spoke out in favour of choosing her own spouse, argued on behalf of scientific education for women, helped develop a new form of needle painting, confronted Samuel Johnson, defied James Boswell, and supported abolition of the slave trade and slavery. She published several works under her maiden name, Morris. Life Early life She was born into a prosperous family of third generation Quakers in Rugeley, Staffordshire, in 1733. Mary was brought up with practical education in her parents' house, but her education also spanned many secular subjects. She learned to write poetry, cite the classics, employ Latin phrases and analyze current scientific theories. Accomplished in the arts, she wrote a ‘fine hand’, learned to paint and draw, held a good understanding of botany and was apparently fluent in French. She did not confine her friendships to Quakers. It was during her teens that she formed a lasti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Wells Morris
Mary Wells Morris (September 4, 1764 – November 6, 1819) is the person that Wellsboro, Pennsylvania is named after. She was born in Burlington County, New Jersey. She moved to Tioga County with her husband Benjamin, her son Samuel, and her daughter Rebecca. They were Philadelphia Quakers Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belief in each human's abil .... They became the first residents of the Wellsboro. She remained in Wellsboro until she died on November 6, 1819; she is buried with her husband in the Wellsboro Cemetery. Recently a life-size bronze statue was erected in her honor. Despite not finding any remaining images of Mary Wells, the designers of the statue crafted a likeness based on surviving images of her mother. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Morris, Mary Wells 1764 births 1819 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Morris Husband
Mary Morris Husband (July 7, 1826 – March 3, 1894) was an American nurse during the Civil War (1861–1865). She cared for soldiers who fought at the Battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. She cared for her seriously ill son John until he was discharged by the surgeon. After recovering from miasmatic fever, Husband returned to service. She was among the nurses who treated thousands of soldiers in Fredericksburg, Virginia following the Battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House (May 1864). She nursed at the White House Hospital in June 1864. Among other leadership positions, she was the matron of the Third Corps hospital. Personal life Mary Morris was born July 7, 1826, in Philadelphia. She was the daughter of Eliza Jane (née Smith) and Henry Morris. Robert Morris, known as the "Financier of the Revolution" and a Founding Father, was her grandfather. Morris married lawyer Joshua L. Husband, becoming Mary Morris Husband. They had two sons, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Morris (doctor)
Mary Eva Hastings Morris (9 April 1873 – 11 July 1925) was a Welsh medical doctor and suffragist. Born in Dolgellau, she grew up in Malta, before returning to Wales to study medicine at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth. She went on to become the first female doctor from Aberystwyth. After spells working at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in London, the North Devon Infirmary, and Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Women, Morris moved to Bath, where she worked as a medical inspector. While in Bath, Morris began participating in the suffragist movement, leading events alongside other suffragists such as Adela Pankhurst and Annie Kenney. Early life and education Morris was born on 9 April 1873 in Dolgellau, Montgomeryshire in Wales. She was the daughter of Reverend Samuel D. Morris, RN, a naval chaplain. Morris grew up in Malta. Her father died while helping the sick on the flagship HMS ''Victoria'' when it had a collision with another warship a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Morris (American Actress)
Mary Morris (June 24, 1895 – January 16, 1970) was an American stage actress with a long and varied career. She was born to George Perry Morris and Martha Sophia (née Turner). She was educated in the Brookline, Massachusetts Public Schools and at Radcliffe College. She began in Amateur theatricals at the Bandbox Theatre, before becoming an Understudy with the Washington Square Players. She made her professional debut with the WSP in San Francisco in 1916 in ''The Clod''. Perhaps her most famous stage role was that of Victoria Van Brett, the elderly, Machiavellian spinster in the Elizabeth McFadden thriller ''Double Door''. She made such an impression as the villain of the piece that Paramount Pictures, buying the screen rights to the play, insisted on Mary Morris for the leading role. She was then touring in the play, so Paramount delayed production until she could report to the studio in Hollywood. ''Double Door'' was her only motion picture; she received rave reviews for he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Morris (diarist)
Mary Ellen Morris (née Mulry; 15 February 1921 – 1997) was an Irish nurse and writer, known for her war diaries during the Second World War. These are stored at the Imperial War Museum and in June 2014 were published under the title 'A Very Private Diary', a reference to one diary entry: ''"15 June 1944, Bognor Regis: Should have headed this 'Somewhere in Southern England' but this is a very private diary..."'' She was born in County Galway, Ireland and left her home at the age of 18, after passing the examination to train at Guy's Hospital in London as a nurse probationer. After training, she was transferred to Kent. Her diaries start here with the arrival of survivors from the Dunkirk evacuation, and subsequently, injured pilots from the Battle of Britain. Here she also underwent training in fever nursing, a specialisation prior to antibiotics when whooping cough and diphtheria were fatal. Working at the 'home front' during The Blitz, she spent many nights moving very ill c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary McGarry Morris
Mary McGarry Morris (born February 10, 1943) is an American novelist, short story author and playwright from New England. She uses its towns as settings for her works. In 1991, Michiko Kakutani of ''The New York Times'' described Morris as "one of the most skillful new writers at work in America today"; ''The Washington Post'' has described her as a "superb storyteller"; and ''The Miami Herald'' has called her "one of our finest American writers". She has been most often compared to John Steinbeck and Carson McCullers. Although her writing style is different, Morris also has been compared to William Faulkner for her character-driven storytelling. She was a finalist for the National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. As of 2011, Morris has published eight novels, some of which were best-sellers, and numerous short stories. She also has written a play about the insanity trial of Mary Todd Lincoln. Published novels ''Vanished'', her first novel, was written over a 10-y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Morris (writer)
Mary Morris (born May 14, 1947 in Chicago) is an American author and a professor at Sarah Lawrence College. Morris published her first book, a collection of short stories, entitled ''Vanishing Animals & Other Stories'', in 1979 at the age of thirty-two and was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She has gone on to publish numerous collections of short stories, novels, and travel memoirs. She has also edited with her husband, the author Larry O'Connor, an anthology of women's travel literature, entitled ''Maiden Voyages'', subsequently published as ''The Virago Book of Women Travellers''. Her recent novel ''The Jazz Palace'' has been awarded the 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Award in fiction. This award goes to work that addresses issues of cultural diversity and racism in America. Early life Morris was born to Sol Morris (a businessman who was a partner in his brother's architectural and engineering firm) and Rosalie Morris (a ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
