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Christabel may refer to: * ''Christabel'' (poem), a lengthy poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ** ''Christabel'' (film), a 2001 experimental feature by James Fotopoulos based on the poem **''Christabel'', a 1998 lesbian Gothic romance novel by Karin Kallmaker inspired by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem * ''Christabel'' (TV series), a 1988 British drama by Dennis Potter, about an English woman married to a German lawyer in Nazi Germany * Christabel LaMotte, a character in the novel ''Possession: A Romance'' * 2695 Christabel (1979 UE), a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1979 * Lake Christabel, a small lake of New Zealand * USS ''Christabel'' (SP-162), a United States Navy patrol vessel of World War I People Pseudonym * Christine Elizabeth Abrahamsen (1916–1995), American science fiction and gothic novelist * Mary Downing (c. 1815–1881), Irish poet Given name * Christabel Baxendale (1886–1953), English violinist and composer *Christabel Bielenberg (1909–2003), Anglo-Irish-Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christabel (poem)
''Christabel'' is a long narrative ballad by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in two parts. The first part was reputedly written in 1797, and the second in 1800. Coleridge planned three additional parts, but these were never completed. Coleridge prepared for the first two parts to be published in the 1800 edition of '' Lyrical Ballads'', his collection of poems with William Wordsworth, but left it out on Wordsworth's advice. The exclusion of the poem, coupled with his inability to finish it, left Coleridge in doubt about his poetical power. It was published in a pamphlet in 1816, alongside '' Kubla Khan'' and ''The Pains of Sleep''. Coleridge wrote ''Christabel'' using an accentual metrical system, based on the count of only accents: even though the number of syllables in each line can vary from four to twelve, the number of accents per line rarely deviates from four. Synopsis The story of ''Christabel'' concerns a central female character of the same name and her encounter with a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christabel Baxendale
Florence Christabel Baxendale (28 December 1886 – 1977) was an English violinist and composer "of considerable talent". She was active in the early 1900s until at least 1921 and gave concerts in the London area, sometimes with her older sister, Kathleen Baxendale, who was a soprano opera singer. Baxendale was born 28 December 1886. In 1939, she was a music teacher in Uckfield, Sussex. Baxendale died in 1977 in Bournemouth, aged 90. Works Baxendale composed mostly popular songs. Selected works include: *''That Merry, Merry May'' (setting of a poem by Gerald Massey Gerald Massey (; 29 May 1828 – 29 October 1907) was an English poet and writer on Spiritualism and Ancient Egypt. Early life Massey was born near Tring, Hertfordshire in England to poor parents. When little more than a child, he was made to ...) *''Plaintive Melody'' for violin or viola and piano (1951) *''Two little Eyes of blue'' *''You Came To Me'' References 1886 births 1977 deaths Date of deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christabel Elizabeth Robinson
Christabel Elizabeth Robinson (28 March 1898 – 3 June 1988) was a New Zealand teacher, vocational guidance and community worker. She was born in Lower Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand in 1898. With a colleague, G. E. Maxwell Keys, Robinson was responsible in 1936 for the establishment of vocational guidance nationally as part of the Ministry of Education rather than the Ministry of Labour A ministry of labour ('' UK''), or labor ('' US''), also known as a department of labour, or labor, is a government department responsible for setting labour standards, labour dispute mechanisms, employment, workforce participation, training, and s ..., significantly changing its role. Robinson was instrumental for many years in the New Zealand Crippled Children Society and particularly sheltered workshops for the disabled. References 1898 births 1988 deaths New Zealand activists New Zealand women activists New Zealand schoolteachers Nelson College for Girls faculty Peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christabel Pankhurst
Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst (; 22 September 1880 – 13 February 1958) was a British suffragette born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), she directed Suffragette bombing and arson campaign, its militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913. In 1914, she supported the war against Germany. After the war, she moved to the United States, where she worked as an evangelist for the Second Adventist movement. Early life Christabel Pankhurst was the daughter of women's suffrage movement leader Emmeline Pankhurst and radical socialist Richard Pankhurst (politician), Richard Pankhurst and sister to Sylvia Pankhurst, Sylvia and Adela Pankhurst. Her father was a barrister and her mother owned a small shop. Christabel assisted her mother, who worked as the Registrar of Births and Deaths in Manchester. Despite financial struggles, her family had always been encouraged by their firm belief in their devotion to causes rathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christabel Marshall
Christabel Gertrude Marshall (aka Christopher Marie St John) (24 October 1871 – 20 October 1960) was a British campaigner for women's suffrage, a playwright and author. Marshall lived in a ménage à trois with the artist Clare Atwood and the actress, theatre director, producer and costume designer Edith Craig from 1916 until Craig's death in 1947. Family Born in Exeter, she was the youngest of nine children of Emma Marshall, née Martin (1828–1899), novelist, and Hugh Graham Marshall (c.1825–1899), manager of the West of England Bank. She changed her name on her conversion to Catholicism in adulthood.Cockin, Katharine. (2004"St John, Christopher Marie (1871–1960)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, accessed 11 March 2010 Education Having taken a BA in Modern History at Somerville College, Oxford, Marshall became the secretary to Mrs Humphry Ward, Lady Randolph Churchill and, occasionally, to her son Winston Churchill. Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christabel Rose Coleridge
Christabel Rose Coleridge (25 May 1843 – 14 November 1921) was an English novelist and an editor of girls' magazines, sometimes in collaboration with the novelist Charlotte Mary Yonge. Her views on the role of women in society were conservative. Early life A granddaughter of the poet, Samuel Coleridge, Christabel was born at St Mark's College, Chelsea, while her father, Derwent, was headmaster there. Her name pays homage to Samuel Coleridge's poem " Christabel". For a time, Coleridge helped her brother Ernest to run a school, but her ambition was to be a writer. Writings, friendships She went on to publish more than 15 novels. The first was a children's historical story called ''Lady Betty'' (1869). ''Minstrel Dick'' (1896) is set mainly in the 14th-century Berkhamsted court of the dying Edward, the Black Prince. Her fiction expressed her concern with morality, and several of her books were published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Christabel was a fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christabel Cockerell
Christabel Annie Cockerell, Lady Frampton (baptized 21 October 1864 – 18 March 1951) was a British painter of children, portraits and landscapes. Biography Cockerell was born in 1863, daughter of George Russell Cockerell of London, and trained at the Royal Academy Schools from 1882, where she met her future husband, the sculptor George Frampton. They married in April 1893 and their son, Meredith Frampton was born on 17 March 1894. She exhibited work at the Royal Academy from 1885, and continued until 1910, always under her maiden name. Her husband was knighted in 1908 and she became Lady Frampton, but continued to exhibit her art using her maiden name. In 1910 they moved to a new house designed by him at 90 Carlton Hill, St John's Wood, London, which included a studio for each of them. Her studio in the house was described as "a perfect painting room in which comfort and utility are happily combined", with numerous pictures on the walls, and the carpet from the studio of Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christabel Chamarette
Christabel Marguerite Alain Chamarette, sometimes known as Christabel Bridge (born 1 May 1948) is a former Greens Senator for Western Australia from 1992 to 1996. Personal life Born in Hyderabad, India in 1948, Chamarette is of Anglo-Indian and French Huguenot ancestry. She has worked as a community worker in Bangladesh and later as a clinical psychologist at Fremantle Prison. Politics Chamarette was appointed to the Senate in 1992, following the resignation of Jo Vallentine. She was opposed to privatising Telstra and delayed the Mabo legislation by demanding the inclusion of mineral rights in the compensation package for native title holders. She was defeated at the 1996 general election; her term ended on 30 June 1996. Chamarette said that when working in the Senate, she thought it was the most important work of her life, but she now refers to it as simply "useful experience". After politics She was an expert consultant to the Department of Justice and was appointed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christabel Bielenberg
Christabel Mary Bielenberg (''née'' Burton, 18 June 1909 – 2 November 2003) was a British writer who was married to a German lawyer, Peter Bielenberg. She described her experiences living in Germany during the Second World War in two books: ''The Past is Myself'' (1968) and ''The Road Ahead'' (1992). Early life Christabel Mary Burton was born in Totteridge, Hertfordshire, to Anglo-Irish parents. Her mother, Christabel Harmsworth, was the sister of the British newspapers publishers Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth, and Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere. Her father was Lieutenant colonel Percy Collingwood Burton, who had served with the distinction in the British army during the Boer Wars and World War I. She was one of the two boys and two girls born to the couple and was nicknamed ''Chrismary'' by her siblings. Bielenberg was educated as a boarder at St Margaret's School, Bushey, St Margaret's Schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Downing
Mary Downing (née McCarthy; ''c.''1815–1881) was an Irish poet and nationalist best known by her pen name "Christabel". Some of her poetry appeared in ''The ballad poetry of Ireland'' (1869), a collection of verse edited by Charles Gavan Duffy. Life Mary Downing was born Mary McCarthy around 1815 in Kilfadda More, Kilgarvan, County Kerry. She was the eldest daughter of Daniel McCarthy, Esq. Over her life time, she used a number of pen names but is best known as "Christabel" or "Myrrha". Under these names, Downing published a large amount of her verse in the ''Cork Southern Reporter'' and the ''Freeholder''. Under the names "M.F.D." and "C**l" she contributed several poems to the ''Dublin Citizen''. Her best known work, ''Scraps from the mountains, and other poems'' was published in 1840 in Dublin. She married Washington Downing (died 1877) of Kenmare in the 1830s. He was the parliamentary reporter for the '' Daily News'', so the couple moved to London. Washington's brother was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christabel (film)
''Christabel'' is a 2001 avant-garde experimental film directed by James Fotopoulos and based on the unfinished poem of the same name by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Production ''Christabel'' was Fotopoulos’ first feature length narrative production, consisting of two half-hour segments shot on digital video and two short sequences shot in 16mm film. As an adaptation, it eliminates some of the male characters from the Coleridge text and focuses on the theme of one woman commandeering an evil possession of another. Cast * Kiersten DeBrower as Geraldine * Jenna Lecce as Sir Leoline * Veronica Sheaffer as Christabel * Cherise Silvestri as Bard Bracy Release The film played on the festival circuit before receiving a DVD release from Facets Video. Critical response ''Austin Chronicle'' wrote that ''Chistabel'' "poses perceptual and emotional challenges to his viewers", and that within the film "sexual symbolism is dense and not for all tastes." Phil Hall of ''Film Threat'' panne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Elizabeth Abrahamsen
Christine Elizabeth Abrahamsen (September 6, 1916 – February 7, 1995) was an American nurse and professor of nursing at West Virginia University Institute of Technology. She wrote science fiction and gothic novels under the pseudonyms Christabel and Kathleen Westcott, respectively. Early life and nursing career Christine Elizabeth Abrahamsen was born on September 6, 1916, in Oak Hill, West Virginia, the daughter of Charles Earl Campbell, an auto mechanic, and Macie Boothe. She was raised and attended school in West New York, New Jersey. She earned a nursing diploma from New York's Somerset Hospital in 1938, a bachelor's degree in nursing education from Hunter College in 1954, and a master's degree in nursing from Columbia University in 1959. After working as a nurse in various hospitals in New Jersey and New York since 1938, she became a professor of nursing at West Virginia University Institute of Technology in 1971."Christine Elizabeth Abrahamsen." ''Gale Literature: C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
