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Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose is an elderly woman who lives near the Finches. She is hated by the children, who run past her house to avoid her. Scout describes Mrs. Dubose as "plain hell." A virulent racist, she calls Atticus a "nigger-lover" to his children's faces, and Jem flies into a rage and ravages Mrs. Dubose's camellia bushes. As a ...
Among her film appearances are her role as Mother Marcella in Fred Zinnemann's The Nun's Story (1959) and as the cantankerous, aged Mrs. Dubose, who yells at the precocious children Jem, Scout, and Dill from her front porch in Robert Mulligan's To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).
Fellows started his first book, Forget Self-Help: Re-Examining the Golden Rule, at age twenty while he was a counselor at a summer camp in Mentone, Alabama. [8] [failed verification] Based upon the Golden Rule found in Matthew 7:12, the book examines the actions of characters in To Kill a Mockingbird and Uncle Tom's Cabin as well as the writings of Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King Jr. [9 ...
Jimmy DuBose (born 1954), American football player; Judith DuBose (1698-1769), Colonial American heiress; Kristi DuBose (born 1964), American jurist and judge; Mike DuBose (born 1953), American football player; Samuel Vincent DuBose (c. 1972–2015), shooting victim, Cincinnati, Ohio; Thomas DuBose (1902-1992,) US Air Force officer
She traveled to New York City in 1848 and was hired as a schoolteacher. In 1851, she married a minister Henry Martyn Field from Stockbridge, Massachusetts and was then known as Henriette Desportes Field. She was a member of the School of Design for Women at Cooper Union's Advisory Council from 1859, when it was founded, until her death. She was ...
Janet Ethne Anne Henfrey [1] (born 16 August 1935) is a British stage and television actress whose career has spanned over 50 years. A familiar face on stage and screen since the 1960s starring in a variety of British Television favourites.
Mrs. Henry B. (Renee) Harris was a Titanic survivor; her showman husband had gone down with the ship. [8] She owned the Hudson Theatre, [9] and was involved with the casting and play doctoring of The Noose. [10] Mack's original play had the Governor's daughter as a character, who begs for Nickie Elkins' body in the third act.
Edwin DuBose Heyward (August 31, 1885 – June 16, 1940) [1] [2] was an American author best known for his 1925 novel Porgy. He and his wife Dorothy, a playwright, adapted it as a 1927 play of the same name. The couple worked with composer George Gershwin to adapt the work as the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess.