Word: nell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nell J. Smelser--Adams; secretary-treasurer, Harvard World Federalists; Social Relations Society; Edward Whittaker Prize Scholarship; Jacob Wendell Scholarship...
...Wives of Charles II." In this series of historical mores she is able to show the character of the Merry Monarch entirely through the personalities of the men in his life. In succession, Miss Skinner played Charles' mother, a Dutch tavern girl, Lady Chartlemaine, Louise de Queroalle, Nell Gwyn, and Katherine of Braganza. As Nell, the London orange girl who became Drary Lane's leading lady, and then in Nell's own words, "danced her way into the royal bed," she displayed much of the good-natured, earthy charm that must have fascinated Charles. The intensity of the next...