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  2. List of To Kill a Mockingbird characters - Wikipedia

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    Aunt Alexandra decides to leave her husband at the Finch family homestead, Finch's Landing, to come to stay with Atticus. Aunt Alexandra doesn't consider the black Calpurnia to be a good motherly figure for Jem and Scout; she disapproves of Scout being a tomboy. She encourages Scout to act more ladylike; wanting to make Scout into a southern ...

  3. To Kill a Mockingbird - Wikipedia

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    Scout's Aunt Alexandra attributes Maycomb's inhabitants' faults and advantages to genealogy (families that have gambling streaks and drinking streaks), [58] and the narrator sets the action and characters amid a finely detailed background of the Finch family history and the history of Maycomb. This regionalist theme is further reflected in ...

  4. Room for One More (film) - Wikipedia

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    Room for One More is a 1952 American family comedy-drama film directed by Norman Taurog, produced by Henry Blanke, and starring Cary Grant and Betsy Drake.The screenplay, written by Jack Rose and Melville Shavelson, was based on the 1950 autobiography of the same name by Anna Perrott Rose.

  5. Eight Cousins - Wikipedia

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    Aunt Jane thinks that Rose should have been kept in boarding-school; Aunt Clara thinks she should be put in a finishing-school for a year and then sent into society; Aunt Myra thinks Rose will die; and Aunt Jessie agrees with Alec, who wants to improve Rose's health for a year before letting her decide with whom to live. Rose wants to adopt ...

  6. The Desert Rose - Wikipedia

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    The Desert Rose is a 1983 novel by Larry McMurtry about a Las Vegas showgirl. [1] It was his ninth novel. McMurtry wrote the book after visiting Las Vegas to research a film script about that city. The movie was never made. [2] The Los Angeles Times called it "warm and funny". [3]

  7. Fanny and Alexander - Wikipedia

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    Fanny and Alexander (Swedish: Fanny och Alexander) is a 1982 period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.The plot focuses on two siblings and their large family in Uppsala, [a] Sweden during the first decade of the twentieth century.

  8. The Towers of Trebizond - Wikipedia

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    The book is partly autobiographical. It follows the adventures of a group of people – the narrator Laurie, the eccentric Dorothea ffoulkes-Corbett (otherwise Aunt Dot), her High Anglican clergyman friend Father Hugh Chantry-Pigg (who keeps his collection of sacred relics in his pockets) – travelling from Istanbul (or Constantinople as Fr. Chantry-Pigg would have it, or Byzantium as Laurie ...

  9. The Unnatural and Accidental Women - Wikipedia

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    The production was directed by Muriel Miguel and starred PJ Prudat as Rebecca and Monique Mojica as Aunt Shadie. Miguel's production was the second time Mojica had played Aunt Shadie. [ 6 ] Colleen Winton, Yolanda Bonnell , Columpa C. Bobb , Cheri Maracle , Nimikii Couchie-Waukey, Lisa Cromarty, Pierre Brault, Olivier Lamarche, Jenifer ...