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Edna (given Name)
Edna () is a feminine given name originating from several languages. In Hebrew, it means "pleasure, delight". The name appears in the Biblical apocryphal Book of Tobit as the mother of Sarah and stepmother of Tobias. In Ireland, the name has been used as an Anglicized form of the Irish name Eithne. It is etymologically related to the name Eden. It has been in use in the Anglosphere since the 1600s, when it was often spelled Ednah. The name was particularly well-used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but has since declined in use. People with the given name Edna * Edna Agravante (born 1980), Filipina former international footballer * Edna Alexander (died 1913), Canadian-born soprano * Edna Belle Alexander (1892–1972), American composer * Edna Alford (born 1947), Canadian author and illustrator * Edna Allyn (1861–1927), American librarian * Edna P. Amidon (1895–1982), American educator and federal official * Edna Anderson (1922–2019), Canadian politician * Edna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Henri
Robert Henri (; June 24, 1865 – July 12, 1929) was an American painter and teacher. As a young man, he studied in Paris, where he identified strongly with the Impressionists, and determined to lead an even more dramatic revolt against American academic art, as reflected by the conservative National Academy of Design. Together with a small team of enthusiastic followers, he pioneered the Ashcan School of American realism, depicting urban life in an uncompromisingly brutalist style. By the time of the Armory Show, America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism (1913), Henri was mindful that his own representational technique was being made to look dated by new movements such as Cubism, though he was still ready to champion avant-garde painters such as Henri Matisse and Max Weber. In 1929 Henri was named as one of the top three living American artists by the Arts Council of New York. Early life Robert Henri was born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, Oh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edna Allyn
Edna Isabel Allyn (April 5, 1861 – June 7, 1927) was an American librarian, she was the first librarian of what is now the Hawaii State Library. Early life and education Allyn was born on April 15, 1861, in Wellington, Ohio, U.S.. Allyn graduated from Hiram College in 1882, and became a public schoolteacher. She then earned a master's degree in Latin from Columbia University in 1902. After working in the Iowa State Industrial School's library, Allyn decided to study library science at Western Reserve University in 1905. After completing her education, she became the librarian of the Brooklyn sub-branch of the Cleveland Public Library. Hawaii Allyn became the librarian of the Honolulu Library and Reading Room Association, a subscription library, in 1907. When the Hawaii State Library was built in 1913, the Honolulu Library and Reading Room Association's collections formed the base of the new library's collection, so Allyn became the head librarian there. During her tenu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edna Beilenson
Edna Rudolph Beilenson (June 16, 1909 – February 28, 1981) was an American typographer, fine press printer, typesetter, book designer, cook book author, publisher, and co-proprietor (with her husband, Peter Beilenson) of the Peter Pauper Press from 1931 until his death in 1962, and afterward its sole proprietor and president until her death in 1981. Early life Edna Rudolph was born June 16, 1909, in New York City, the daughter of the artist John and Anna (Beilenson) Rudolph. She graduated ''cum laude'' with a degree in journalism from Hunter College in 1928. In 1930, Rudolph married her cousin, Peter Beilenson, who had founded the Peter Pauper Press in 1928. Career In 1932, Edna Beilenson joined in the business of press work at the Peter Pauper Press, learning bookkeeping and typesetting. She is credited with bringing a strong sense of graphic design and color to the press's productions, which became the hallmarks of Peter Pauper publications. The Press aimed "to print boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrude Beasley
Edna Gertrude Beasley (June 20, 1892 – July 25, 1955) was an American writer and memoirist. A feminist, her controversial 1925 autobiography, ''My First Thirty Years'' (published in Paris, France) received some favorable reviews but was also suppressed, and she soon after disappeared. Decades after her death, researchers found that when she returned to the United States in the late 1920s, she was committed to a state mental asylum in New York for the rest of her life. Life and career Edna Gertrude Beasley was born on June 20, 1892, near Cross Plains, Texas. Her father was an itinerant subsistence farmer. She was the ninth of 13 children in a poor family, and according to Beasley, the product of marital rape. After her last sibling was born, her mother left the marriage, with the children, and moved to Abilene. Unlike the rest of her family, Beasley was interested in school and education. She became a teacher and obtained a teaching degree. She left Texas to pursue a mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edna Beard
Edna Louisa Beard (July 25, 1877 – September 18, 1928) was the first woman legislator in Vermont; she was the first woman elected to the Vermont House of Representatives, and the first woman elected to the Vermont Senate. A native of Illinois, her parents were from Orange, Vermont, and returned there in the early 1880s. Beard was raised and educated in Orange, graduated from Spaulding High School in Barre, and became a school teacher and administrator. She also served in local offices including town treasurer, and operated a dairy farm in partnership with one of her brothers. In 1920, the Constitution's Nineteenth Amendment made it possible for women to vote in statewide and national elections. Beard ran for the Republican nomination to represent Orange in the Vermont House of Representatives. She lost, and subsequently filed to run as a third party candidate. 40 women in Orange registered to vote between the primary and general elections, and enough supported her to ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodora Bean
Theodora Bean (March 26, 1871 – August 5, 1926), born Edna Belle Bean, was an American journalist and suffragist. She was a founder and president of the Newspaper Women's Club of New York, and started her own news syndicate, the T-Bean Syndicate, shortly before her death. Early life and education Bean was born in Anoka, Minnesota, the daughter of Martin Van Buren Bean and Louisa Jane McFarlan Bean. Her mother was from Canada; her father was from Maine. Her father was a Union Army veteran of the American Civil War, and ran a hardware store. She attended Carleton College briefly, then moved to Chicago to begin a career in journalism. Career Journalism Bean was a reporter at the ''Chicago Daily News'', and in that job interviewed Carrie Nation and covered women's clubs and sports. She moved to New York City, and was Sunday editor for the '' Morning Telegraph''; she also worked for the ''Evening Telegram''. She profiled British singer Clara Butt in 1913, and interviewed artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yolani Batres
Edna Yolani Batres (born 14 January 1967) is a Honduran politician who was the Secretary of State at the Bureau of Health in the government of President Juan Orlando Hernández from January 2014 until December 2016. Career Early career roles have included consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank, working on technical capacity building to support the expansion and sustainability of health services delivery within the Unit of Decentralised Management at the Secretariat of Health. Before her appointment as Secretary of State, Batres served as the Deputy Secretary of Health for Service Networks; Head of the Unit for Coverage Expansion for the Health Region of Gracias, Lempira; and Chief of the Emergency Services at the Departmental Hospital Juan Manuel Gálvez. During her time as Secretary of State, she oversaw the government's response to the 2015–16 Zika virus epidemic. Other activities * Gavi, Member of the Board [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edna Barker
Edna Barker (24 November 1936 – 25 March 2019) was an English cricketer who played as a right-handed batter and right-arm off break bowler. She appeared in 15 Test matches for England between 1957 and 1969. She played domestic cricket for Surrey Surrey () is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East Sussex, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the wes ... for 13 years. References External links * * 1936 births 2019 deaths Cricketers from Surrey English women cricketers England women Test cricketers Surrey women cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edna Anne Wheeler Ballard
Edna Anne Wheeler Ballard, also known as Lotus Ray King (June 25, 1886 - February 10, 1971), was an American theosopher who co-founded the Saint Germain Foundation and served a co-leader of the I AM Movement with her husband Guy Ballard. In 1944, Ballard and her son Donald Ballard were charged with mail fraud and their court case would eventually be ruled by the US Supreme Court as '' United States v. Ballard'' where the charges were ultimately dismissed, on the basis of the court system incorrectly attempting to consider validity of their religious beliefs. Ballard's work with the I AM Movement is considered a predecessor to the current new age movement. Early life and education Edna Anne Wheeler was born in 1886 in Burlington, Iowa. Her mother was Anna Hewitt Pearce and her father was Edward G. Wheeler, a railway clerk. Ballard became a concert harpist in 1912. In 1916, Ballard married Guy W. Ballard. Two years later in 1918, she had a child with Guy named Donald. I AM Mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edna Arbel
Edna Arbel (; born June 22, 1944) is an Israeli lawyer who was a justice on the Supreme Court of Israel from May 2004 to June 2014. She is a native of Jerusalem. Legal career In 1984, Arbel was appointed District Attorney of the Central District. She had previously served as a senior assistant to the District Attorney of the Central District. She served as a member of the Kahan Commission that investigated the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Edna Arbel rule that a willingness to settle a case create a waiver of rights, including a consent to abduction. Judge Arbel was involved in the Ben-Haim case, a custody battle that eventually involved Interpol. A New Jersey judge, Bonnie Mizdol, described Israeli judge Arbel's judgment as ludicrous and "defying common sense." According to all known legal principles, a willingness to settle a case does not amount to a waiver of rights, let alone a consent to abduction. She ruled that henceforth no order of any kind issued by the religious cour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edna Anhalt
Edna Anhalt (born Edna Thompson) was an American screenwriter, television writer, and film producer. Biography Together with then-husband Edward Anhalt, she enjoyed some considerable success in a 10-year stretch from 1947 to her retirement in 1957. This stretch was capped with an Academy Award for Best Story win for Elia Kazan's 1950 film '' Panic in the Streets'', and another nomination two years later for '' The Sniper''. She also wrote the screenplays to ''The Member of the Wedding'' (1952), '' Not as a Stranger'' (1955) and ''The Pride and the Passion ''The Pride and the Passion'' is a 1957 American Napoleonic-era war film in Technicolor and VistaVision from United Artists, produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, and Sophia Loren. The film co-stars ...'' (1957), which was her last film credit. Following her divorce from Edward, she later moved into television script-writing and wrote episodes for anthologies ''The Schlitz Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edna Andrews
Edna Andrews is an American scholar and the Nancy & Jeffrey Marcus Distinguished Professor of Slavic & Eurasian Studies at Duke University and holds an honorary doctorate by St. Petersburg State University. Her current concerns are second language education. Early life and education Andrews received a doctorate degree from Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington, Indiana University, IU, IUB, or Indiana) is a public university, public research university in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. It is the flagship university, flagship campus of Indiana Univer .... Books *''Conversations with Lotman: Cultural Semiotics in Language, Literature, and Cognition'' (2003). References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Duke University faculty Indiana University Bloomington alumni Linguists from the United States {{US-linguist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
