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Anne Bethel Spencer (born Bannister; February 6, 1882 – July 27, 1975) was an American poet, teacher, civil rights activist, librarian, and gardener.She was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, despite living in Virginia for most of her life, far from the center of the movement in New York.
The Pierce Street House was built in 1903, by Edward Spencer and the surrounding area includes a large garden and a one-room retreat called Edankraal, where Spencer did much of her writing. The word "Edankraal" is a combination of "Edward," "Anne," and "kraal," the Afrikaans word for enclosure or corral.
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A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Anne Churchill, later Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland (27 February 1683 – 15 April 1716), [1] [2] [3] [a] was an English court official and noble. She once held the office of Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Anne .
Ann Simon Harrison Spencer (June 13, 1918 – December 10, 1999) was an American modern artist. Born the daughter of American impressionist painter Robert Spencer and American architect and painter Margaret Fulton Spencer on June 13, 1918, Spencer grew up in New Hope, Pennsylvania and New York City spending a majority of her adult career in Tucson, Arizona where she was an important figure in ...
Lady Sunderland and Lady Diana, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Lady Diana Spencer was born into the rising Spencer family in London on 31 July 1710. [1] She was the second daughter and youngest of five children of the English statesman Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, and his second wife, Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland (née Lady Anne Churchill).
Ann's mother was the Lady of the Manor of Charmouth in Dorset who married Matthew Liddon on 22 June 1789 in the presence of her father, the ill-fated James Warden.They had at least five children, James (born 1790), Ann (1793), Sophia (1795), Lucy (1798) and Matthew (1800).