• sister Bessie to English aristocracy and especially to eligible young bachelor Lord Harry Bleane. The glamour of high society seduces Bessie. When her...
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  • Alvah Cecil Bessie (June 4, 1904 – July 21, 1985) was an American novelist, screenwriter and journalist. He was one of nearly 3,000 American volunteers...
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  • Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (the book) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sadie and Bessie Delany...
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    Juanita Horton, better known as Bessie Love (September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986), was an American-British actress who achieved prominence playing innocent...
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    Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Spencer and then Simpson; June 19, 1896 – April 24, 1986) was an American socialite and...
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  • contains the oral history of Sarah "Sadie" L. Delany and A. Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, two civil rights pioneers who were born in the late 19th century...
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  • Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany (September 3, 1891 – September 25, 1995) was an American dentist and civil rights pioneer. She was the subject, along with...
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    Choice Television Award nomination for playing Bessie Smith's sister Viola in the 2015 HBO film Bessie. Khandi Alexander was born in Jacksonville, Florida...
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  • among the Dead Woman from among the Dead Mr. Carter (Dead) Farmer McCarty Bessie – Howie Newsome's horse, visible to the characters, but not the audience...
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    Bessie Lillian Carter (née Gordy; August 15, 1898 – October 30, 1983) was an American nurse. Carter's son, Jimmy Carter, served as the 39th president of...
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    women's rights in Victorian times and also a poet, essayist and journalist. Bessie Rayner Parkes was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, daughter of...
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  • Poehler, Cynthia True, and Erik Wiese for Nickelodeon. The series centers on Bessie Higgenbottom, an ambitious Honeybee girl scout who believes she will become...
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    Native Son (redirect from Bessie Mears)
    leaves the corpse to burn, and goes home. Bigger's current girlfriend Bessie Mears suspects him of having done something to Mary. Bigger goes back to...
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    Bessie Pease Gutmann (1876 – 1960) was an American artist and illustrator, most noted for her paintings of putti, infants, and young children. During the...
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    (film 1912)] (1912) Mary Has Her Way [it] (1912) Jasmine [it] (1912) Our Bessie [it] (1912) The Bachelor's Ward [it] (1912) The Editor and the Millionaire [it]...
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    Bessie Love (1898–1986) was an actress whose career began in silent films, and continued into sound films, radio, and television. She was also active in...
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    Tract Society, 1889) Lover or Friend? (London: R. Bentley & Son, 1890) Our Bessie (London: The Religious Tract Society, 1891) Averil (London: The Religious...
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  • She was the subject, along with her younger sister Bessie, of the oral history biography, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, by journalist...
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  • Old Windsor. Other works by her include the reredos at Our Lady, Ramsey. "Miss Frances Bessie Burlison". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture...
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  • Bill's Temptation A Night of Peril The Child Detective Phoebe of the Inn Our Bessie A Girl Alone The Blind Heroine His Actress Daughter Bill's Reformation...
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    Gentlewoman. 24 July 1915. p. 98. Bessie Watson: the youngest suffragette - Our Town Stories, Edinburgh City Council site. Bessie Watson - Whose Town? Edinburgh...
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  • Domestic Science at the high school level in the New York City public schools. Bessie was the second African-American woman licensed to practice dentistry in...
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  • Bessie Starkman (born Besha Starkman; June 21, 1890 – August 13, 1930) was an organized crime figure in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in the early 20th century...
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    Bessie Mabel Rischbieth, OBE JP (née Earle; 16 October 1874 – 13 March 1967) was an influential and early Australian feminist and social activist. A leading...
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    blues music increased, she became well known. Around this time, she met Bessie Smith, a young blues singer who was also making a name for herself. A story...
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    (Supplement). 1 February 1937. p. 698. "Napier's Bessie Spencer - the remarkable "forward thinking proto-feminist" who founded our Women's Institutes". v t e...
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  • for Chicago Review of Books, Bessie Taliaferro says the book "upends the self-help books on our nightstands as well as in our minds". She highlights the...
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    work with EMI Music Publishing who take care of our songwriting affairs. Next year we start working with our new record company to celebrate Queen's 40th...
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  • caused many talented black women to go unnoticed or unheard of. Walker cites Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Roberta Flack, and Aretha Franklin to...
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  • Brown Bess (redirect from Brown Bessie)
    for it may be some browne bessie? But let a beautie fall a weeping, overpressed with the sicke passion; she favours in our thoughts, something Turnbull...
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