O'NEILL, MARGARET

(Peggy O'Neill), c.1796–1879, wife of John Henry Eaton, U.S. Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson. She was the daughter of a Washington tavern keeper and married John Timberlake, a purser in the U.S. navy. After his death, she became (1829) the wife of Eaton, who soon afterward entered the cabinet. The wives of the other cabinet members refused to accord her social recognition because of the alleged intimacy between Major Eaton and Peggy O'Neill before their marriage and because of her humble birth. President Jackson, a close friend of Eaton, tried in vain to ensure Peggy Eaton a place in society. The attempt almost disrupted the cabinet and worsened the relations between the President and the Vice President, John C. Calhoun, whose wife was a social leader. As a result, Jackson transferred his favor to Martin Van Buren, who as a widower was better able than others to recognize Mrs. Eaton. She was well received at the court of Spain, to which her husband was appointed minister in 1836, and was a social favorite in London and Paris. Her maiden name is also recorded by historians as O'Neale and O'Neil.

See biography by L. Phillips (1974).

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A Wind Is Rising: The Correspondence of Agnes Boulton and Eugene O'Neill
Book by Agnes Boulton, Eugene O'Neill, William Davies King; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000
Subjects: Authors' Spouses--United States--Correspondence, Boulton, Agnes--1893-1968--Correspondence, Dramatists, American--20th Century--Correspondence, O'Neill, Eugene--1888-1953--Correspondence, O'Neill, Eugene--1888-1953--Marriage
...Day: A Biography (New York: Harper Row, 1982), 103-19. But see the entry under Dorothy Day in Margaret Loftus Ranalds invaluable The Eugene ONeill Companion (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984), 152-56. For the story of Louise Bryant...
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The Curse of the Misbegotten: A Tale of the House of O'Neill
Book by Croswell Bowen, Shane O'Neill; McGraw-Hill, 1959
Subjects: Fiction, O'Neill Family, O'Neill, Eugene--1888-1953
...Misbegotten A TALE OF THE HOUSE OF ONEILL New York Toronto London the Curse...Misbegotten A TALE OF THE HOUSE OF ONEILL by Croswell Bowen with the assistance of Shane ONeill McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. Copyright...
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Margaret Fuller, a Biography
Book by Margaret Bell; Charles Boni, 1930
Subjects: Fiction, Fuller, Margaret--1810-1850
...with words. It was no use; Margaret saw through their words...Furthermore, who was she? Peggy ONeill, the daughter of a Washington...destroying new forms, creating new. Margaret, walking alone up and down...for a gallop," he called. Margaret gave orders to the servant...
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Staging Depth: Eugene O'Neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse
Book by Joel Pfister; University of North Carolina Press, 1995
Subjects: Domestic Drama, American--History And Criticism, Drama--Psychological Aspects, Family In Literature, Literature And Society--United States--History--20th Century, Middle Class In Literature, O'Neill, Eugene--1888-1953--Knowledge--Psychology, Psychology In Literature
...who had become mothers had to satisfy. "Keep on wooing," Margaret Sanger advised husbands, " but words of endearment ... should...cultural sexualization of "mother" most likely influenced ONeills perception of "wife" in his explicit fusion of their roles...
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Eugene O'Neill in Ireland: The Critical Reception
Book by Edward L. Shaughnessy; Greenwood Press, 1988
Subjects: Criticism--Ireland--History--20th Century, O'Neill, Eugene--1888-1953--Appreciation--Ireland, O'Neill, Eugene--1888-1953--Stage History--Ireland, Theater--Ireland--History--20th Century
...L. Shaughnessy in Eugene ONeill Newsletter . Copyright September...Reprinted with permission of Margaret M. Barnes. Copyright...Mitchell. Copyright 1936 by Margaret Mitchell. "Eugene ONeill, World-Famed Dramatist," by...
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O'Neill and the Wobblies: The IWW as a Model for Failure in the Iceman Cometh
Journal article by Lawrence Dugan; Comparative Drama, 2002
Subjects: Failure (Psychology)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Industrial Workers of the World--Portrayals, depictions, etc., O'Neill, Eugene--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Political plays--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Iceman Cometh (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...provide the setting for many of ONeills plays, including the earliest...Night and The Iceman Cometh. Margaret Loftus Ranald lists a play...ex-Wobblies. NOTES (1) Margaret Loftus Ranald, The Eugene ONeill Companion (Westport, Conn...
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Performance, Performativity, and Identity in Margaret Cavendish's the Convent of Pleasure
Journal article by Katherine R. Kellett; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 48, 2008
Subjects: Cavendish, Margaret Lucas--Criticism and interpretation, Cavendish, Margaret Lucas--Works, Identity--Portrayals, Speech acts (Linguistics)--Portrayals, The Convent of Pleasure (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Women dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Women dramatists--Works, Women playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Women playwrights--Works
...177. (34) Erin Lang Bonin, "Margaret Cavendishs Dramatic Utopias...Experimental Philosophy, ed. Eileen ONeill, Cambridge Texts in the History...in "Feminism in Time," ed. Margaret Ferguson and Marshall Brown...Knowing and Scientific Enquiry: Margaret Cavendishs Poetry as Case Study...
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The Irregular Aesthetic of the Blazing-World
Journal article by Angus Fletcher; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 47, 2007
Subjects: Aesthetics--Portrayals, Cavendish, Margaret Lucas--Works, Humans and nature--Portrayals, Romance fiction, Romance literature, Romances (Fiction), The Blazing-World (Fictional work), Women authors--Works, Women writers--Works
...The Restoration of Royalist Form in Margaret Cavendishs Sociable Letters," in Women...upon Experimental Philosophy, ed. Eileen ONeill (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001...Mad Madge: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the First...
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Genetic Information, Life Insurance, and Social Justice (1)
Journal article by Martin O'Neill; The Monist, Vol. 89, 2006
Subjects: Genetic screening--Ethical aspects, Genetic screening--Political aspects, Genetic screening--Social aspects, Genetic testing--Ethical aspects, Genetic testing--Political aspects, Genetic testing--Social aspects, Life insurance--Analysis, Social justice--Analysis
...Oderberg, Serena Olsaretti, Onora ONeill, Shepley Orr, Derek Partit...Porter, Andrea Sangiovanni, Margaret Schabas, Andrew Williams, and...example Hudson et al., (1995); ONeill (1997), (1998); Knoppers (1999...8.) I am grateful to Onora ONeill for this point. (9.) On the...
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Essay versus Multiple Choice Exams; an Experiment in the Principles of Macroeconomics Course
Journal article by Patrick B. O'Neill; American Economist, Vol. 45, 2001
Subjects: College administrators--Training, Economics--Study and teaching, Examinations--Design and construction, Macroeconomics--Study and teaching
...Pleeter, Saul and Philip K. Way. Economics in the News, Second Edition, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1993. Ray, Margaret A. and Paul W. Grimes. "Performance and Attitudinal Effects of a Computer Laboratory in the Principles of Economics Course...
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How Migrants Really Live: Margaret Hodge Thinks Newcomers to Britain Take Housing Which Should Go to the Indigenous Population. but There Is No Privilege in the Life of Newly Arrived Immigrants
Magazine article by Brendan O'Neill; New Statesman, Vol. 136, June 4, 2007
Subjects: Immigrants--Economic aspects, Immigrants--Homes and haunts, Immigrants--Social aspects, London, England--Demographic aspects, London, England--Economic aspects, London, England--Social aspects
How Migrants Really Live: Margaret Hodge Thinks Newcomers to Britain Take...Arrived Immigrants. by Brendan ONeill A bitter wind creates a mini-tornado...fantasy described by the MP for Barking, Margaret Hodge, when she claimed that new immigrants...
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Uncommon Woman: In a Necessary New Biography, the Prolific Susan Glaspell Emerges from the Shadow of O'Neill
Magazine article by Susan Jonas; American Theatre, Vol. 22, November 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times (Book)--Book reviews
...Emerges from the Shadow of ONeill. by Susan Jonas...Margo Jones, Eva Le Gallienne, Margaret Webster, Sophie Treadwell...permanent footnote in Eugene ONeills story--credited with discovering...in fact, Glaspell--and not ONeill, as is commonly thought--who...
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Supply-Siders Voice Concern about Bush
Magazine article by Jamie Dettmer; Insight on the News, Vol. 17, March 19, 2001
Subjects: Bush, George W.--Economic policy, Lindsey, Lawrence B.--Economic policy, O'Neill, Paul--Economic policy, Tax policy--Political aspects
...but too few revolutionaries," Margaret Thatcher complained in her...nor Treasury Secretary Paul ONeill is a supply-sider -- not that...stimulated, and thats all. ONeill is harder to place and appears...they say. Both Lindsey and ONeill accept the current federal...
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A Taxing Dilemma
Magazine article by John Berlau; Insight on the News, Vol. 17, April 23, 2001
Subjects: American Management Systems Inc.--Officials and employees, Corporate divestiture--Political aspects, Executives--Finance, O'Neill, Paul--Finance, Rossotti, Charles O.--Finance, United States. Internal Revenue Service--Officials and employees
...put through the turmoil and fear of a government audit. Many traced these allegedly politicized audits to IRS Commissioner Margaret Milner Richardson, who President Clinton appointed in 1993. Richardson was an accomplished Democratic fund-raiser and a close...
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Tilting at Windmills
Magazine article by Charles Peters; Washington Monthly, July 2001
Subjects: Blockbuster Entertainment Group--Marketing, Journalists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Liberalism--Analysis, O'Neill, Paul--Political activity, Packer, George--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Southwest Airlines Co.--Marketing
...the IG, "have little incentive to devote many resources to quality assessment and improvement." Another factor, according to Margaret OKane, the head of an accreditation agency: "Health plans are very nervous about reporting to the data bank because they are...
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End to This Religious Bigotry's Far Too Late; Dan O'Neill ROYAL VISIT: Princess Margaret Meets the Crew on Board a Royal Navy Destroyer
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), October 1, 2008
Subjects: Naval vessels, Warships
...to This Religious Bigotrys Far Too Late; Dan ONeill ROYAL VISIT: Princess Margaret Meets the Crew on Board a Royal Navy Destroyer...and no, this is no fairytale, I was Princess Margarets beloved. . . Honest! She came aboard our battleship...
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'I Practise What I Preach' He May Have Celebrated His 60th Birthday, but Welsh Tenor Dennis O'Neill Is Not Giving Up Singing Yet. He Tells Mike Smith about His New Roles and Why He's So Passionate about Supporting Opera Stars of the Future
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), May 23, 2008
...hours 45 mins Cast: Dennis ONeill, Andrew Gangestad, Luis Chapa, Margaret Jane Wray, Zevetelina Vassileva...PICTURES: Bill Cooper; Dennis ONeill as Radames, Helen Greenaway...Andrew Gangestad as Ramfis and Margaret Jane Wray in WNOs Aida; Rebecca...
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PICK IT OUT; Pregnant Margaret Is a Hero after She Saves Aaron, 3, as He Chokes on a Pickled Onion
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), July 3, 2008
...pickled onion. Pregnant Margaret McCarthy kept Aaron ONeill, three, alive as they...breathe. His mum Fiona ONeill branded Margaret a "hero" and said he...GUARDIAN ANGEL Aaron ONeill with neighbours Margaret McCarthy Declan Bulger...
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Bowls: Margaret Hits Hat-Trick Trail
Newspaper article by Alex Mills; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), June 20, 1997
...bite of British Isles glory. She led her Blackrock rink of Margaret Murphy, Pat Murphy and Marie Schofield to victory in the Fours...Jennifer Dowds (Ballymoney), Leinsters Pat Day and Bernie ONeill, from the Portstewart club, are also called into the side for...
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Going Back to the Future; Margaret Graham Tells Karen Stewart Why She Loves Living on the Level in Her New Bungalow
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), January 14, 2006
...For more information or to arrange a viewing contact Isabel ONeill on 01555 895 411. Ive kept myself busy by making curtains and...make it more personal and I think they work well DELIGHTED ... Margaret outside her new bungalow DRESSED TO THRILL ... Duck egg New...
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encyclopedia articles on: ONeill Margaret  - 7 results

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O'Neill, Margaret
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ONEILL, MARGARET (Peggy ONeill), c.1796 1879, wife of John Henry Eaton , U.S. Secretary of War...recognition because of the alleged intimacy between Major Eaton and Peggy ONeill before their marriage and because of her humble birth. President...
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Donelson, Andrew Jackson
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...secretary, and Mrs. Donelson was Jacksons hostess at the White House. Her refusal to accept Mrs. J. H. Eaton (see ONeill, Margaret ) socially led to a temporary estrangement between uncle and nephew, but Jackson found himself in need of Donelsons...
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Calhoun, John Caldwell
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...men soon cooled. Calhoun, prodded by his wife and his supporters, offended the President in the Eaton affair (see ONeill, Margaret ). Jackson finally became furious when he discovered that years before Calhoun had privately denounced Jacksons conduct...
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Jackson, Andrew
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...relationships were of utmost importance, and the social slights suffered by the wife of Secretary of War John H. Eaton (see ONeill, Margaret ) helped to break up the cabinet. Calhouns antagonism was more fundamental, however. Calhoun and the South generally...
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Van Buren, Martin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the President. Van Buren further strengthened his position with Jackson by being courteous to Peggy Eaton (see ONeill, Margaret ). His resignation (1831) as Secretary of State brought about that of the other cabinet officers and enabled Jackson...
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