JACKSON, GLENDA

1936–, English actress and politician. Jackson's first starring role was as Charlotte Corday in Marat/Sade (1966) for the Royal Shakespeare Company. A strong personality, she has excelled in both comedies and dramas. She won Academy Awards for roles in Women in Love (1969) and A Touch of Class (1973). Her other films include Sunday Bloody Sunday (1972), The Maids (1974), House Calls (1978), Turtle Diary (1986), and The Rainbow (1990). In 1971 she played Elizabeth I in a critically acclaimed television series, and she has appeared on stage in such plays as Strange Interlude (1984). In 1992 she retired from acting and was elected as a Labour member of Parliament from Hampstead; she was reelected in 1997. In 1999 she mounted an abortive candidacy for mayor of London.

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books on: Jackson Glenda  - 227 results

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Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J.B. Jackson
Book by Chris Wilson, Paul Groth; University of California Press, 2003
Subjects: Cities And Towns--United States, Human Geography--United States, Jackson, John Brinckerhoff--1909-, Landscape Assessment--United States
...and the City; See also Urban Geography 15, no. 7 (1994), a special issue devoted to Harveys Social Justice , edited by Glenda Laws. Andy Merrifield and Erik Swyngedouw, eds., in The Urbanization of Injustice (New York: NYU Press, 1997), similarly...
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Inventing the American Woman: An Inclusive History - Vol. 1
Book by Glenda Riley; Harlan Davidson, 2001
Subjects: Sex Role--United States--History, Women--United States--History
...in the early 1860s, writer Helen Hunt Jackson explored and expanded this subtle argument with great skill. When, in 1867, Jackson moved to Colorado Springs, she delighted...mountains. In the Colorado landscape, Jackson found both grandeur and the presence of...
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Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West
Book by Glenda Riley; University of Nebraska Press, 1999
Subjects: Environmentalism--United States, West (U.S.)--Environmental Conditions, Women Conservationists--United States, Women Environmentalists--United States
...early as the 1860s, writer Helen Hunt Jackson pondered and expanded such ideas. In...sketches about the Colorado landscape. Jackson found the Colorado outdoors not only beautiful...December 1876 issue of the Atlantic Monthly , Jackson tried to convey "the silence of the wilderness...
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Inventing the American Woman: An Inclusive History - Vol. 2
Book by Glenda Riley; Harlan Davidson, 2001
Subjects: Sex Role--United States--History, Women--United States--History
...action. One such person was Helen Hunt Jackson of Massachusetts. After the death of...rado. Through living in the West, Jackson developed great sympathy for American...through an interpreter) in Boston in 1879, Jackson began to write about Native American rights...
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Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
Book by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore; University of North Carolina Press, 1996
Subjects: African American Women--North Carolina--History, African American Women--North Carolina--Political Activity, African Americans--Suffrage--North Carolina, North Carolina--Politics And Government--1865-1950, North Carolina--Race Relations
...University. Her parents, Alfred and Louise Jackson, had been slaves of a professor at the...managed by African Americans. There, Jackson taught Greek and became Hainess most popular...Laney believed in the YWCA, and Mary Jackson McCrorey was determined to found an African...
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journal articles on: Jackson Glenda  - 108 results

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Workplace Conversations: Building and Maintaining Collaborative Capital
Journal article by Glenda McDonald, Margaret H. Vickers, Shantala Mohan, Lesley Wilkes, Debra Jackson; Contemporary Nurse : a Journal for the Australian Nursing Profession, Vol. 36, 2010
...Maintaining Collaborative Capital by Glenda McDonald , Margaret H. Vickers...Mohan , Lesley Wilkes , Debra Jackson INTRODUCTION Nurses and midwives...workplace (Hutchinson, Vickers, Jackson, Wilkes, 2005; Jackson, Clare, Mannix, 2002; Luck...
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Determinants of Housing Loan Patterns toward Minority Borrowers in Mississippi
Journal article by Fidel Ezeala-Harrison, Glenda B. Glover; Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 42, 2008
Subjects: Bank loans--Analysis, Home ownership--Analysis
...by Fidel Ezeala-Harrison , Glenda B. Glover The issues of inequality...a Professor of Economics at Jackson State University, and Glenda B. Glover is an Associate Professor...Dean, College of Business at Jackson State University. The authors...
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Gender and Origins of the New South
Journal article by Glenda E. Gilmore; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 67, 2001
Subjects: Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Historians--Criticism and interpretation, History--Political aspects, Literature, Politics, Race relations, Sex role--Political aspects, Sex roles--Political aspects, Southern States--History, United States history, Woodward, C. Vann--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Criticism and interpretation
...of the New South. by Glenda E. Gilmore WE MIGHT...H. Botume, Mahalia Jackson, and Eleanor Roosevelt...1993), 5. (22) Glenda E. Gilmore, "Agrarian...of Women in the Age of Jackson, 1800-1840," in...32) Jane Dailey, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, and...
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Biblical Trees, Biblical Deliverance: Literary Landscapes of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison
Journal article by Glenda B. Weathers; African American Review, Vol. 39, 2005
Subjects: African Americans--Religious aspects, Biblical Trees, Biblical Deliverance: Literary Landscapes (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Books--Criticism and interpretation, Hurston, Zora Neale--Works, Morrison, Toni--Works
...Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison. by Glenda B. Weathers Enslaved by law or custom...the Unspeakable. Ed. Marc C. Conner. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2000. 31-48...safely and rest from them" (110). Glenda B. Weathers is Professor of English at...
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Recouping Wage Underpayment: Increasingly Less Likely?
Journal article by Glenda Maconachie, Miles Goodwin; Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 41, 2006
Subjects: Entitlements (Law)--Analysis
...Underpayment: Increasingly Less Likely? by Glenda Maconachie , Miles Goodwin In recent years...counterparts (Peetz 1998:79-81; Jackson et al 2002; Thornthwaite 1996). Most...approximately 11 years experience. Jackson, S., Higgs, H. and Cooper, G...
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magazine articles on: Jackson Glenda  - 267 results

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The NS INTERVIEW Glenda Jackson
Magazine article by Mary Riddell; New Statesman, Vol. 128, November 29, 1999
Subjects: Jackson, Glenda--Interviews, Politicians--United Kingdom, United Kingdom--Politics and government
The NS INTERVIEW glenda jackson by MARY RIDDELL She has excised all...she plods on in the race for mayor Glenda Jackson apologises for "crawling around...slowness. Such obstacles do not deter Glenda Jackson. In her own mind at least, tortoises...
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"Isn't the Tube Good, When It Works!" (London Minister of Transport Glenda Jackson)
Magazine article by Steve Richards; New Statesman, Vol. 127, May 22, 1998
Subjects: Jackson, Glenda--Evaluation, Public officers--Evaluation, Women politicians--Evaluation
...it works!" (London Minister of Transport Glenda Jackson) by Steve Richards Glenda Jackson has learnt to be a loyalist in her role as...clearly tempted by that other London job, too Glenda Jackson is a highly unusual minister. Most ambitious...
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Should President Bartlet Run Again? Glenda Jackson, MP for Hampstead and Highgate, Expresses Her Support for President Bartlet
Magazine article; New Statesman, Vol. 131, August 19, 2002
...President Bartlet run again? Glenda Jackson, MP for Hampstead and Highgate...the electorate was appropriate, Glenda Jackson acknowledged there were "questions...at least one thing is clear, Glenda Jackson believes he is the man for the...
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Jackson State Faculty Complain about Funding
Magazine article by Charles Dervarics; Black Issues in Higher Education, Vol. 16, March 4, 1999
Jackson State Faculty Complain about Funding by Charles Dervarics JACKSON, Miss. - Jackson State University needs to hire more...dean of the School of Business, Dr. Glenda Glover, says funding shortages are...
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ACA Standards Aficionado Inspires Improvements
Magazine article by Glenda Beal; Corrections Today, Vol. 70, June 2008
Subjects: American Correctional Association--Standards, Correctional personnel--Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Williams, Jerry--Appointments, resignations and dismissals
...Aficionado Inspires Improvements. by Glenda Beal The Mississippi Department of Corrections...successful recruitment day in 1995 at Jackson State University. That was when department...has established with other attendees. Glenda Beal is a contributing editor for Corrections...
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newspaper articles on: Jackson Glenda  - 733 results

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THE ACID; QUEEN; How Heartless Glenda Jackson Failed Sapphire Families
Newspaper article by Graeme Smith; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), October 31, 1997
Subjects: Jackson, Glenda
...THE ACID; QUEEN; How Heartless Glenda Jackson Failed Sapphire Families. by...Shipping Minister. He said: "Glenda Jackson might have been a fine film actress...and put their point of view to Glenda Jackson with a humanity and a clarity...
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I've Yet to Meet a Woman Who Doesn't Work 16 Hours a Day; WOMAN INTERVIEW: JANE JOHNSON, Woman's Editor, Talks to Labour MP GLENDA JACKSON
Newspaper article by Jane Johnson; The Mirror (London, England), August 14, 1996
Subjects: Jackson, Glenda
...Womans Editor, Talks to Labour MP GLENDA JACKSON. by Jane Johnson She looks very...visible sign of make-up. But Glenda Jackson, former actress, `MP for Hampstead...the "obdurate" John Major. Glenda Jackson has lately been a small player...
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I Still Meet Men I Fancy.But If I Did Ever Fall for One, I'd Have to Shave My Legs and Start Wearing Make-Up; GLENDA JACKSON SPEAKS FRANKLY ON ACTING, PASSION AND POLITICS
Newspaper article by Carole Malone; Sunday Mirror (London, England), May 30, 1999
Subjects: Jackson, Glenda
...Have to Shave My Legs and Start Wearing Make-Up; GLENDA JACKSON SPEAKS FRANKLY ON ACTING, PASSION AND POLITICS. by Carole Malone GLENDA Jackson wants it to be known that NO, she is not hacked off...
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I WILL NEVER MARRY AGAIN...I HAVE NO FEAR OF BEING ALONE...MY TERROR IS TOBE DEPENDENT ON OTHERS; Heidi Kingston Reveals How Glenda Jackson Is Plagued by Self-Doubt
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), July 7, 1996
Subjects: Jackson, Glenda
...OTHERS; Heidi Kingston Reveals How Glenda Jackson Is Plagued by Self-Doubt. Byline...that can possibly remind you of Glenda Jacksons previous life is her...not a hint of the actor about Glenda Jackson. She is, by her own admission...
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Fury as Glenda Denies Crew a Proper Burial
Newspaper article by David Thompson; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), October 30, 1997
Subjects: Jackson, Glenda
Fury as Glenda Denies Crew a Proper Burial. by David...wept tears of fury last night after Glenda Jackson refused to bring their loved-ones...letter to Tony Blair. It says: "Ms Glenda Jackson has informed us there are no plans...
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encyclopedia articles on: Jackson Glenda  - 2 results

 
 
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Jackson, Glenda
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
JACKSON, GLENDA 1936 , English actress and politician. Jacksons first starring role was as Charlotte Corday in Marat/Sade (1966) for the Royal...
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Motion Pictures
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...British actors of recent years are Dirk Bogarde , Peter Finch, Michael Caine, Vanessa Redgrave , Stanley Baker, Glenda Jackson , Richard Burton , Julie Christie, Peter OToole, Maggie Smith , Alan Bates, John Gielgud , Claire Bloom, Albert...


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