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A governess is a term for a woman employed as a private tutor, who teaches and trains a child or children in their home. A governess often lives in the...

The 2008 Skate America was the first event of six in the 2008–09 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition...

Pia Merete Tjelta (born 12 September 1977, in Stavanger) is a Norwegian actress. Tjelta graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre in 2006...

Aya Traoré (born July 27, 1983) is a Senegalese female basketball forward and in 2011 captain of Senegalese women's national basketball team. She previously...

The Gathering is an allegorical Australian young adults' novel written by fantasy author Isobelle Carmody. The book was published by Puffin Books Australia...

Léopold Simoneau, CC CQ (May 3, 1916 – August 24, 2006) was a French-Canadian lyric tenor, one of the outstanding Mozarteans of his time. In 1959 he became...

Midori Snyder is an American writer of fantasy, mythic fiction, and nonfiction on myth and folklore. She has published eight novels for children and adults...

Emi Hinouchi (日之内エミ, Hinouchi Emi; born September 7, 1982 as 日之内絵美) is a Japanese urban music singer-songwriter. She was formerly signed under King Records'...

Sharon Kendrick, née Wirdnam (b. London, England) is a popular British writer of over 100 romance novels published by Mills & Boon since 1993. Her books...

Ana Mirjana Račanović-Jevtić (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Ана Мирјана Рачановић-Јевтић; born Ana Mirjana Račanović, c. 1980) is a Bosnian singer, model and...

Rita Hunter CBE (15 August 1933 – 29 April 2001) was a British operatic dramatic soprano. Rita Hunter was born in Wallasey, Merseyside and lived in Limekiln...

Kathryn Hulme (January 6, 1900 – August 25, 1981) was an American author and memoirist most noted for her novel The Nun's Story. The book is often misunderstood...

Andreas Capellanus was the twelfth century author of a treatise commonly titled De amore ("About Love"), also known as De arte honeste amandi, for which...

Joëlle Wintrebert (born 1949 in Toulon) is a French writer. She primarily writes science fiction, but also writes children's literature and journalism...

IBBY Canada is the Canadian National Section of the International Board on Books for Young People, a non-profit organization. A national organization with...

Maysoon Salem Al-Damluji (Arabic: ميسون سالم الدملوجي); born 1962) first name also spelt Maysun, is a liberal Iraqi politician and women's rights campaigner...

Wendy McGrath is a Canadian poet and novelist. Broke City (NeWest Press 2019) is the final novel in McGrath's Santa Rosa Trilogy. The second novel in the...

Kathrine Story ("Kay") French (June 5, 1922 – June 14, 2006) was an American anthropologist born in Illinois. Educated in California, she studied ceremonialism...

Marine Joatton (born 1972) is a contemporary French artist. Marine Joatton was born in Paris in 1972. She received a diploma from the Institut d'Etudes...

Julia Pomeroy is an American actress and author. She first came into the public eye after appearing alongside Matt Dillon in the 1979 cult film Over The...