Resultados para "memorias de martha" en Histórico

Ralph was a brilliant, poor Jew from the East End. Edith, also Jewish from a bourgeois family in Central Europe, was a gifted pianist. They met as students in Paris in 1937 and were separated by the war. Their intimate, emotional, and sometimes humorous correspondence throughout the war led to marriage in 1945. Each bore scars. She, from escaping the Nazis, he from childhood tragedy. Overshadowing them both was a secret that burdened Ralph for most of his life.

Eine fast französische, nicht ganz deutsche Familie. Meine Großmütter hießen Marthe und Mathilde. Ihre Vornamen begannen mit denselben Buchstaben. Sie sind im selben Jahr, 1902, geboren. Mathilde am 20. Februar, Marthe am 20. September. Sie sind beide im Jahr 2001 gestorben. Mit ein paar Wochen Abstand, ganz am Anfang des neuen Jahrhunderts, kurz vor ihrem hundertsten Geburtstag. Marthe und Mathilde haben das zwanzigste Jahrhundert Seite an Seite durchwandert. Sie waren Freundinnen, seit sie sechs waren.

Martha Hughes Cannon (1857–1932) may best be known as the first female state senator in the United States, elected in Utah in 1896, nearly a quarter century before most women in the country could vote. She was also a suffragist, physician, gifted speaker, plural wife, faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and mother of three.

This is the true story of an orphaned girl who managed to survive in an unforgiving world. When she grew up, she married a matinee idol. Just as her hardships in life were ending, they began again when her husband assassinated Abraham Lincoln.