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Schwartz was the author of 36 Regency romance novels under the pen name Elizabeth Mansfield and of mainstream fiction under the name Paula Reibel, Paula Jonas, and Paula Reid. [1] [2] Schwartz was born in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City. She graduated from Hunter College and earned her M.A. in English from the City University of New ...
Dido Elizabeth Belle (June 1761 – July 1804) was a British gentlewoman.She was born into slavery, an illegitimate daughter of Captain John Lindsay of the Royal Navy and Maria Belle; her mother, Maria Belle, was an enslaved Black woman in the British West Indies.
Elizabeth Louise Mansfield FIMA is an Australian mathematician whose research includes the study of moving frames and conservation laws for discretisations of physical systems. [1] She is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and was a Vice-President thereof from January 2015 until December 2018.
Elizabeth's father Lord Stormont was a prominent aristocrat and would regularly invite Elizabeth to court functions and Royal balls. On 18 January 1781, Lord Mansfield, Lord Stormont, and Elizabeth attended Queen Charlotte's birthday at St. James's Palace. Elizabeth was listed among the ladies who were particularly admired, both for their ...
Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement.Her works are celebrated across the world and have been published in 25 languages.
Title page of Elizabeth Inchbald's Lovers' Vows (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1796). Lovers' Vows (1798), a play by Elizabeth Inchbald, arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814), is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe (1780; literally "The Love Child," often translated as "Natural Son ...
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, PC (2 March 1705 – 20 March 1793), was a British judge, politician, lawyer, and peer best known for his reforms to English law. Born in Scone Palace, Perthshire, to a family of Scottish nobility, he was educated in Perth before moving to London at the age of 13 to study at Westminster School.
It features a double portrait of the cousins Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray. [1] [2] Dido was the great niece of Lord Chief Justice Lord Mansfield who made notable rulings limiting the practice of slavery and the slave trade, notably Somersett's Case and the Zong trial. The 2013 film Belle drew inspiration from the painting. [3]