frances

Definition of frances in English English dictionary: A female given name, feminine form of Francis
My other sisters had interesting names. There was Francie, that was Frances, and though she wore slacks and my father seemed angry with her, I thought she was some relation to Saint Francis, who, I believed, kept animals in his pocket and took them out and licked them, the way Francie licked a blackball or acid drop, for pure love.; feminine form of Francis; Frances Margaret Anderson Burnett Frances Eliza Hodgson Frances Burney Cabrini Saint Frances Xavier Lady Diana Frances Spencer Dove Rita Frances Frances Gumm Perkins Frances Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner Wright Frances; {i} female first name
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett: born Nov. 24, 1849, Manchester, Eng. died Oct. 29, 1924, Plandome, N.Y., U.S. British-U.S. playwright and author. She is best remembered for the popular children's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), about an American boy who inherits an English earldom. The Secret Garden (1911), considered her best work, is a classic of children's literature. Other works include the novel Through One Administration (1883), about corruption in Washington, D.C., and the play A Lady of Quality (1896)
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard: {i} Frances Willard (1839-1898), American reformer and suffragist, advocate of temperance and women's suffrage
Frances Gumm: {i} birth name of Judy Garland (1922-1969), American award-winning actress and singer who is most remembered for her role in "The Wizard of Oz
Frances Hodgson Burnett: a US writer born in England. She wrote the children's books Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden (1849-1924). born Nov. 24, 1849, Manchester, Eng. died Oct. 29, 1924, Plandome, N.Y., U.S. British-U.S. playwright and author. She is best remembered for the popular children's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), about an American boy who inherits an English earldom. The Secret Garden (1911), considered her best work, is a classic of children's literature. Other works include the novel Through One Administration (1883), about corruption in Washington, D.C., and the play A Lady of Quality (1896)
Frances Perkins: orig. Fannie Coralie Perkins born April 10, 1882, Boston, Mass., U.S. died May 14, 1965, New York, N.Y. U.S. public official. She became a social worker in New York City and a leader in organizations aiming to improve working conditions for women. From 1929 to 1933 she served as state industrial commissioner under New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt. As president, Roosevelt appointed her U.S. secretary of labor; she thereby became the first woman to hold a U.S. cabinet post. In her long term of office (1933-45) she advocated reforms such as a minimum wage, a maximum workweek, and unemployment compensation; she also helped draft the Social Security Act and supervised the Fair Labor Standards Act (1938). She was later a U.S. Civil Service commissioner (1945-53)
Frances Willard: {i} Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (1839-1898), American reformer, advocate of temperance and women's suffrage
Frances Wright: known as Fanny Wright born Sept. 6, 1795, Dundee, Angus, Scot. died Dec. 13, 1852, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. Scottish-born American social reformer. After travels in the U.S., she published Views of Society and Manners in America (1821), which was widely read and praised. Returning to the U.S. in 1824, she bought and freed slaves and settled them at Nashoba, a socialist, interracial community she established in Tennessee (1825-28). She worked with Robert Dale Owen in New York (1829) and defied convention by lecturing widely, attacking slavery, religion, traditional marriage, and the unequal treatment of women. She was a co-leader of the Workingmen's Party. After marrying and living in France (1831-35), she returned to the U.S. and became a supporter of Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party
Rita Frances Dove: born Aug. 28, 1952, Akron, Ohio, U.S. U.S. writer and teacher. She studied writing at the University of Iowa and published the first of several chapbooks of her poetry in 1977. Her poems and short stories focus on the particulars of family life and personal struggle, addressing the larger dimensions of the African American experience primarily by indirection. Her poetry collections include Museum (1983), Thomas and Beulah (1986, Pulitzer Prize), Mother Love (1995), and On the Bus with Rosa Parks (1999). She was poet laureate of the U.S. from 1993 to 1995
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini: known as Mother Cabrini born July 15, 1850, Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardy, Austria died Dec. 22, 1917, Chicago, Ill., U.S.; canonized July 7, 1946; feast day December 22 Italian-born U.S. missionary, the first U.S. citizen to be canonized by the Roman Catholic church. She was determined from childhood to become a missionary, and she took her vows in 1877. She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart in 1880, and in 1889 Pope Leo XIII sent her to the U.S. to work among Italian immigrants. She lived in New York City and Chicago but traveled in the Americas and Europe to found 67 houses of her order
Sir Frances Drake: (1540-1596) English explorer and navigator who plundered Spanish merchant vessels in South America, first Englishman to sail around the world
St Frances Xavier Cabrini: a Roman Catholic nun (=a member of a group of religious women) , who was born in Italy but lived in the US, and who built schools, hospitals, and convents (=buildings where nuns live) in many US cities. She became the first US citizen to be named a saint (1850-1917)