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Marjorie
Marjorie is a female given name derived from Margaret (name), Margaret, which means pearl. It can also be spelled as Margery (name), Margery, Marjory or Margaery. Marjorie is a medieval variant of Margery, influenced by the name of the herb marjoram. It came into English from the Old French, from the Latin ''Margarita (given name), Margarita'' (pearl). After the Middle Ages this name was rare, but it was revived at the end of the 19th century. Short forms of the name include Marge, Margie, Marj (other)#People, Marj and Jorie. People *Marjorie, Countess of Carrick (also Margaret) (1253–1292), mother of Robert the Bruce *Marjorie (singer) (1965–2024), Finnish singer *Marjorie Abbatt (1899–1991), English toy maker and businesswoman *Marjorie Acker (1894–1985), American artist *Marjorie Agosín (born 1955), American writer, activist, and professor *Marjorie Alessandrini (1946–2014), French journalist *Marjorie Allen Seiffert (1885–1970), American poet *Marjorie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marjorie Arnfield
Marjorie Helen Arnfield, (25 November 1930 – 26 April 2001) was an English artist who specialised in both industrial and rural landscapes, painting in oil, acrylic and watercolour. Her landscapes, particularly her paintings of Provence and Spain, are characterised by vivid colours and an impressionistic style. In an interview in the magazine Artists & Illustrators in 1998, Arnfield described her palette of colours, which included ochres, burnt siennas, cadmium, viridian, reds and blues, as "colours that sing". Biography Marjorie Arnfield was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1930 and brought up in Sunderland, attending Sunderland Church High School. Her father was a doctor and her mother was a nurse. Her paternal grandfather William Milburn, great-uncle Thomas Ridley Milburn, and two uncles were regional architects, responsible for many public buildings in the North East of England, including the Sunderland Empire Theatre. While attending Sunderland College of Art, and King E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marjorie Barnard
Marjorie Faith Barnard (16 August 18978 May 1987) was an Australian novelist and short story writer, critic, historian and librarian. She went to school and university in Sydney, and then trained as a librarian. She was employed as a librarian for two periods in her life (1923–1935 and 1942–1950), but her main passion was writing. Barnard met her collaborator, Flora Eldershaw (1897–1956), at the University of Sydney, and they published their first novel, ''A House is Built'' in 1929. Their collaboration spanned the next two decades, and covered the full range of their writing: fiction, history and literary criticism. They published under the pseudonym M. Barnard Eldershaw. Marjorie Barnard was a significant part of the literary scene in Australia between the wars and, for both her work as M. Barnard Eldershaw and in her own right, is recognised as a major figure in Australian letters.Nelson (2004) Life Barnard was born in Ashfield, Sydney, to Ethel Frances and Oswald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marjorie (singer)
Marjo-Riitta Nieminen (15 December 1965 – 13 October 2024), known by her stage name Marjorie, was a Finnish singer who recorded Schlager music and pop music. She was a coloratura soprano. Biography Marjorie received an electric harmonica at the age of five and started playing the piano at the age of six. Marjorie founded her first band, Albatross, in 1986, when she also began touring regularly. At the same time, the singer studied music education at the University of Jyväskylä and classical singing at the Central Finland Conservatory with Maila Haavisto. She graduated with a Master of Philosophy in 1991. In 1988, Marjorie participated in the Finnish Eurovision Song Contest pre-selection competition with Eeva Kiviharju's composition "Tie". She performed on the show. She tried her own variety show performances in 1992, 1994 and 1996. Marjorie also participated in the Eurovision pre-selections in 1989 with the song "Kahden juhla''"'', in 1990 with the song "Tuuli ''"'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marjorie Agosín
Marjorie Agosín (June 15, 1955 - March 10, 2025) was a Chilean-American writer. She won notability for her outspokenness for women's rights in Chile. The United Nations honored her for her work on human rights. The Chilean government awarded her with the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for Life Achievement in 2000. She has been a recipient of the Belpré Medal. In the United States, she received the Letras de Oro, the Latino Literary Prize, and the Peabody Award, together with the United Nations Leadership Award in Human Rights. Early life and education Agosín was born in 1955 to Jewish Chilean parents, Moisés and Frida Agosín, in Bethesda, Maryland, where her father Moisés was completing graduate studies. At the age of three months her family returned with her to Chile, growing up in Santiago de Chile and at the family's summer house in El Quisco where the poet Pablo Neruda was an occasional guest. While she was raised to appreciate her Jewish heritage, her family al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marjorie Anderson
Marjorie Anderson (7 November 1913 – 14 December 1999) was a British actress and leading BBC radio broadcaster for over thirty years, including on the programme ''Woman's Hour'' from 1958 to 1972. Early life Marjorie Enid Anderson was born in Kensington, London. Her father Harold Anderson was a naval intelligence officer, who died in Belgium just after World War I, when Marjorie was a little girl; she was raised by her mother, Charlotte Augusta Boyle Anderson, a property dealer. Anderson attended school at Felixstowe College in Suffolk, and trained as a reader at the Central School of Speech Training in London. She earned a diploma from the University of London in diction and drama. Career Anderson began her career as an actress, appearing in T. S. Eliot's ''Murder in the Cathedral'' on the West End and in a 1938 touring company in the United States. She also taught voice classes, and worked with children who had speech defects. From 1940 to 1945, during Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marjorie Acker
Marjorie Acker Phillips (October 25, 1894 – June 19, 1985) was an American Impressionist painter and art collector. She co-founded the Phillips Collection with her husband, Duncan Phillips. Early life and education She was born Marjorie Acker in Bourbon, Indiana. She was the sister to six other siblings. Her parents were Charles Ernest Acker and Alice Beal. She was raised in Ossining, New York. Phillips started drawing as a child. Her uncles were Reynolds Beal and Gifford Beal. Both men noticed Phillips artistic ability and suggested she pursue art as a career path. She began attending the Art Students League in 1915 and graduated in 1918. She studied under Boardman Robinson. Mid-life and career ''Marjorie Phillips has the unmistakable style of the born painter.'' – Duncan Phillips Phillips is quoted as stating that she "didn't want to paint depressing pictures." She painted primarily landscapes and still life works. Despite living a socialite lifestyle alongside he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marjorie, Countess Of Carrick
:''See also Marjorie Bruce, her granddaughter.'' Marjorie, Marjory or Marsaili of Carrick (also called Margaret; died before 9 November 1292) was Countess of Carrick, Scotland, Carrick, Scotland, from 1256 to 1292, and is notable as the mother of Robert the Bruce. Life Marjorie was the daughter and heiress of Niall, Earl of Carrick, Niall, 2nd Earl of Carrick, and his wife and cousin Margaret Stewart. Her mother's parents were Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland, and wife Bethóc or Beatrix Mac Gille Críst of Angus. Her father Niall was the head of their clan; having no sons, in 1255 he transferred the title of clan chieftain to his nephew Roland, and upon Niall's death in 1256, Marjorie succeeded him to become the 3rd Countess of Carrick Suo jure, in her own right. Marjorie married Adam of Kilconquhar, who died during the Eighth Crusade in 1271. Marjorie and Adam had one child before his death, Martha. Then, as the story goes, a handsome young man arrived one day to tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marjorie Barretto
Marjorie Bernardine Castelo Barretto (; born 19 May 1974) is a Filipino former actress and politician. She also served as the city councilor of second district of Caloocan from 2007 to 2013; she ran for the same position in 2025 but lost. Her sisters, Claudine and Gretchen Barretto, and her daughter Julia are also actresses. Personal life Barretto has 5 children: Dani Barretto with Kier Legaspi, three children including actress Julia Francesca with ex-husband Dennis Padilla, and Erich with former Caloocan Mayor Recom Echiverri. In 2019, Dani Barretto married Xavi Panlilio with child Millie. In June, 2024, Dani and Xavi confirmed their second child would be a boy, "To our Millie girl and our son, I’m yours forever." In November 1997, Barretto married actor-comedian Dennis Padilla, few months after their first child Julia was born. The former couple relationship began to deteriorate due to a year and a half of growing differences and they separated in 2007. In the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marjorie Abbatt
Marjorie Abbatt, née Norah Marjorie Cobb (18 March 1899 – 10 November 1991), was an English toy-maker and businesswoman. Early life and marriage She was born in Surbiton, the daughter of Edward Rhodes Cobb (1872–1965), a fur broker, and his wife Marion Murray née Thomson (1875–1971), and was educated at Roedean School. After studies at Somerville College, Oxford, where she graduated B.A. in 1923, she married (Cyril) Paul Abbatt in December 1930, giving up postgraduate work at University College, London. Paul, born 1899 in Bolton, was from a Quaker family, and a graduate of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and then taught at Sidcot School. He was influenced by Woodcraft Chivalry, and this interest led to the couple meeting in 1926 at a gathering at Godshill, Hampshire. He had been a conscientious objector of World War I. His father George William Abbatt was a merchant in cane, and was involved in Bolton in the manufacture of basketry skips. Influences Intending to set up a prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marjorie Alessandrini
Marjorie Alessandrini (3 April 1946 – 12 February 2014) was a French journalist, specializing in culture and the arts de vivres. Biography Joëlle Marjorie Poissonnet was born "in a plane, above the Sahara" around Colomb-Béchar, French Algeria on April 3, 1946.. At 18, while a student in khâgne, she married Paul Alessandrini. In 1967, she began a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Georges Balandier, The Myth of the Plant-Man in French-language African and West Indian Literatures; she supported it in 1973. In 1969, Paul had entered Rock & Folk, Marjorie joined him there and became known by writing mainly on comics and music. At Albin Michel editions, she coordinated from 1974 to 1976 a collection of monographs devoted to comics, "Graffiti", in which eight titles appeared, including her Crumb in 1974, then supervised in 1978 a fairly complete Encyclopedia of comics on the United States. Unis and the French-speaking authors of the 1970s, which was the subject of an expan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marjorie Baker
Marjorie Baker (13 November 1912 – 9 November 2004) was a British photographer who documented the changing life of Henfield, Sussex, England from the mid to late twentieth century. Career Baker took photographs for over 60 years that recorded the way of life around her in the rural Sussex village of Henfield. She learnt professional photography as an apprentice to the photographer Margaret Ellsmoor, who was based in London but had a studio at Onslow House, Brighton Road, in Worthing and showed specimen work at 13 Chapel Road. Baker began to work from Henfield in 1932. She converted space in a coach-house to a studio in 1938, where she used large format cameras throughout her career. She also photographed outdoors at local events and festivals. Some of her photographs were used for postcards by businesses and the local church. Some of her portraits were shown in the Institute of British Photographers exhibitions in London. The photographs that she was commissioned to take often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson
Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson (née Cunningham) (9 February 1909 – 27 May 2002) was a Scottish historian and paleographer. Early years Born Marjorie Ogilvie Cunningham in St Andrews, she attended St Leonards School there before studying English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. Career After graduation she joined Alan Orr Anderson, whose eyesight was failing, as his paleographer and assistant. They married in 1932. Alan Anderson died in 1958, but Anderson continued to publish on early Scottish subjects, most notably her ''Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland'' and her revision of ''Early Sources of Scottish History'', the standard collection of source material on Scottish History to 1286, written by Alan Anderson and first published in 1922. Honours Anderson received an honorary DLitt from the University of Saint Andrews in 1973. A festschrift In academia, a ''Festschrift'' (; plural, ''Festschriften'' ) is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |