Her children did fairly well; for though one boy was wild, and cost them a deal of money, and another went away in a passion one morning, and never came back, the heir was a good son, and the two girls made splendid marriages.On the whole, she could feel that she had done well to her generation.Even after she had been long dead, the old women in the village talked of her beauty and spirit, of the tight hand she kept over every one and every thing pertaining to Sandal.…Cited from The Squire of Sandal-Side, by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
In the midst of the conventionality of her own social training, she had managed to be untrammeled.In this she was more like Mary than the others of her generation.And she loved Mary, and wanted to see her happy.…Cited from Contrary Mary, by Temple Bailey
She was a role model for her generation, and every generation which followed.
Despite her wins she was not considered among the best of her generation.On May 5, Cherry Lass started the 5/4 favourite in a large, but apparently undistinguished field of nineteen for the 1000 Guineas over Newmarket's Rowley mile course.…
Has the lady been any other way useful in her generation?Cited from The Beaux-Stratagem, by George Farquhar
Here she came to be a centre of attraction for most of the world of her time.She was in active correspondence with nearly every important man of her generation.She was an intimate friend of Bernard of Clairvaux, who was himself, perhaps, the most influential man in Europe in this century.…Cited from Old-Time Makers of Medicine, by James J. Walsh
She served with distinction as one of the most prominent leaders of her generation.Ransome-Kuti's political activism led to her being described as the doyen of female rights in Nigeria, as well as to her being regarded as "The Mother of Africa."…
Apparently a high and peremptory kind of Lady, disdaining to be bowed too low by her disgraces.She survived all her generation, and the next and the next, and indeed into our own.Died 18th February, 1840: at the age of ninety-six.…Cited from Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 21
She was described as "the most successful woman civil servant of her generation".She was born in Bombay to a German businessman father and an English mother who had met and married in India.…
Her story A Tale of Kings was in the anthology Earth and Elsewhere, which gained her notice in the West.She is one of the few successful female Russian science fiction writers of her generation.She won the Aelita Prize in 1987 and remains one of the few women to win it as an individual writer.…
She established herself as one of the leading Norwegian writers of her generation.She was born on a family farm near Trysil in Hedmark county, Norway.…
She was once "thought to be the best Canadian poet of her generation."
She was considered one of the most outstanding singing teachers of her generation.
She could only play pieces that belonged to her generation.Cited from Kenelm Chillingly, E. B. Lytton, Book 6
She is now working on a series of three documentaries about refugees from all over the word.She is considered one of the most talented documentary-women-director of her generation.Her movies are always very strong pictures of contemporary society.…
She is considered by many to be the greatest female water skier of her generation.
It is just to weigh her by the standards of her own age.Born at its highest level, she soared far above her generation.She carried within herself the vision of a statesman, the penetration of a critic, the insight of a philosopher, the soul of a poet, and the heart of a woman.…Cited from The Women of the French Salons, Amelia Gere Mason
At this point, Binoche seemed to be at a crossroads in her career.She was recognized as one of the most significant French actresses of her generation.…
Nationally and internationally she promoted peace and harmony irrespective of race, color and creed and emphasized the importance of human values.Islam was a role model for women of her generation in South Asia.…
She was the leading American filly of her generation at both two and three years of age.Bred in Kentucky by the very prominent horseman Harry Payne Whitney, she was a daughter of the French stakes winner Dis Donc, a son of the French Champion Sire Sardanapale.…
