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Ruth Hall (doctor)
Ruth Hall may refer to: * ''Ruth Hall'' (novel), an 1854 roman à clef by Fanny Fern (pen name of Sara Payson Willis) * Ruth Hall (actress) (1910–2003), American actress * Ruth Hall (academic) (born 1973), South African political scientist * Ruth Hall (activist), British campaigner against rape * Ruth Hall (scientist) (born 1945), Australian microbiologist {{disambiguation Hall, Ruth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Hall (novel)
''Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time'' is a roman à clef by Fanny Fern (pen name of Sara Payson Willis), a popular 19th-century newspaper writer. Following on her meteoric rise to fame as a columnist, she signed a contract in February 1854 to write a full-length novel. She finished ''Ruth Hall'' within a few months, and it was first published in November 1854. Plot summary The autobiographical novel can be divided into three phases: Ruth's happy marriage, impoverished widowhood, and rise to fame and financial independence as a newspaper columnist. Marriage In the first chapter, young Ruth Ellet sits at her window on the night before her wedding, reflecting on her life so far. When her mother died long ago, she was sent away to boarding school, where she excelled at writing compositions. There is no love lost between Ruth and her father, who has plenty of money but begrudges her every penny; and although she adores her talented older brother, Hyacinth, he is a strange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Hall (actress)
Ruth Hall (born Ruth Gloria Blasco Ibáñez; December 29, 1910 – October 9, 2003) was an American film actress. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Hall was a 1929 graduate of Henry B. Plant High School in Tampa, Florida. Hall was a great-niece of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, the Spanish novelist. She took her mother's maiden name as her professional name so as not to benefit from the novelist's more celebrated last name. In 1931, she signed a contract with Paramount Pictures. Personal life She was married to cinematographer Lee Garmes from 1933 until his death on August 31, 1978; the couple had two daughters. Ruth Hall died in Glendale, California, aged 92. Partial filmography * ''Hell Harbor'' (1930) * '' For the Defense'' (1930) * '' The Drums of Jeopardy'' (1931) * ''Manhattan Parade'' (1931) *''Local Boy Makes Good'' (1931) *''Chances'' (1931) *'' Monkey Business'' (1931) *''Her Majesty, Love'' (1931) *''A Fool's Advice'' (1932) * ''The Gambling Sex'' (1932) *''The Kid from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Hall (academic)
Ruth Hall (born March 19, 1973) is a professor at PLAAS (the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies) at the University of the Western Cape, which she joined in 2002. A political scientist by training, she specialises in the politics and the political economy of agrarian reform, land redistribution, and poverty. Education Hall holds a BSocSc from Cape Town University in Political Studies. She proceeded to the UK where she obtained a MPhil in Development Studies and DPhil in Politics both from Oxford University in 1998 and 2011 respectively. Select publications Edited books * * Journal articles * * * References External linksFaculty website on Google Scholar [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Hall (activist)
Ruth Hall is a British activist who was a founding member of the group Women Against Rape. In the late 1970s, Hall regularly staged protests at what she thought were lenient sentences for rapists. In 1983, she threatened any MPs in the British Parliament who blocked a bill to outlaw marital rape Marital rape or spousal rape is the act of sexual intercourse with one's spouse without the spouse's consent. The lack of consent is the essential element and need not involve physical violence. Marital rape is considered a form of domestic vi ..., saying "It takes only the objection of one MP to block a bill. We will be taking note of any MP who blocks it and making sure they live to regret it." References British human rights activists Women human rights activists 20th-century births Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-activist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Hall (scientist)
Ruth Milne Hall, OAM, FAA, FAAM (born 6 August 1945) is an Australian microbiologist whose research on mobile genetic elements in bacteria has provided deep insight into the transfer and evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. She attended Hornsby Girls High School and graduated from the University of Sydney with a BSc(Hons) (1966) and MSc (1968) before taking up a scholarship to do a PhD course on bacterial genetics in the MRC Microbial Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh (awarded 1971). Career After returning to Australia she worked from 1972 to 1975 as a Senior Tutor in the Department of Biochemistry, Monash University and from 1976 to 1979 as a lecturer in the same department. Her research at Monash was on mitochondrial biogenesis and genetics in the yeast ''Saccharomyces cerevisiae''. In 1979-80 she was a Research Fellow in the Department of Microbiology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University and in 1980-81 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
