Ethel
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Ethel is an Old English word meaning "noble", frequently attested in Anglo-Saxon names. "Ethel" is derived from æthel, also spelled aethel and ethel. In Anglo-Saxon times it was a common first element in names e.g. "Ethelbert", "Etheldreda". The use of the element "Ethel" as an independent name is modern probably being initiated in the mid-19th century due to the name's being borne by characters in novels by W. M. Thackeray (The Newcomes
- 1855) and Charlotte Mary Yonge
(The Daisy Chain whose heroine Ethel's full name is Etheldred - 1856); the actress Ethel Barrymore
- born 1879 - was named after The Newcomes character. Notes & Queries published correspondence about the name Ethel in 1872 because it was in fashion. Ethel's popularity increased during the first decades of the twentieth century to decline abruptly by the century's mid-point.
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The Newcomes
The Newcomes is an novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1855.-Publication:The Newcomes was published serially over about two years, as Thackeray himself says in one of the novel's final chapters...
- 1855) and Charlotte Mary Yonge
Charlotte Mary Yonge
Charlotte Mary Yonge , was an English novelist, known for her huge output, now mostly out of print.- Life :Charlotte Mary Yonge was born in Otterbourne, Hampshire, England, on 11 August 1823 to William Yonge and Fanny Yonge, née Bargus. She was educated at home by her father, studying Latin, Greek,...
(The Daisy Chain whose heroine Ethel's full name is Etheldred - 1856); the actress Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors.-Early life:Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew...
- born 1879 - was named after The Newcomes character. Notes & Queries published correspondence about the name Ethel in 1872 because it was in fashion. Ethel's popularity increased during the first decades of the twentieth century to decline abruptly by the century's mid-point.
Ethel may mean:
- the Anglo-Saxon Odal (rune)
- ŒŒŒ œŒ is a Latin alphabet grapheme, a ligature of o and e. In medieval and early modern Latin, it was used to represent the Greek diphthong οι, a usage which continues in English and French...
, a letter formed from a ligature of o and e
Music:
- Ethel (string quartet)Ethel (string quartet)ETHEL is a New York based string quartet that was co-founded in 1998 by Ralph Farris, viola; Dorothy Lawson, cello; Todd Reynolds, violin; and Mary Rowell, violin. Unlike most string quartets, ETHEL plays with amplification and integrates improvisation into its performances...
- Ethel the Frog (band)Ethel the Frog (band)Ethel the Frog was a heavy metal band formed in 1976 in Hull, England. They are notable for being a part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. The band's unusual name was taken from a Monty Python sketch about the "Piranha Brothers".-Career:...
, a British heavy metal band from the late 1970s - Ethel (XM)Ethel (XM)Ethel was the modern rock/alternative channel on XM Satellite Radio. It is the daughter channel of Fred , which covers alternative music from its birth through the early 1990s; and the sister channel of Lucy , which plays only the most popular alternative hits from the 80s through 90s. Ethel plays...
, an XM satellite radio channel
Locations:
- Ethel, OntarioEthel, OntarioEthel is a hamlet located in northern Huron County, Ontario, Canada and has a population of almost two hundred. It is in the municipality of Huron East in Grey Township. Ethel is home to the Grey Township Fire Department, the Ethel Community Hall, Ethel United Church, Ethel Mennonite Church and the...
, Canada - Ethel, MississippiEthel, MississippiEthel is a town in Attala County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 452 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Ethel is located at , along the Yockanookany River....
, USA - Ethel, MissouriEthel, MissouriEthel is a city in Macon County, Missouri, United States. The population was 62 at the 2010 census, at which time it was a town.-History:* On July 26, 2011 the United States Postal Service announced plans to permanently close the Ethel post office as part of a nationwide restructuring...
, USA - Ethel, WashingtonEthel, WashingtonEthel is a town on Highway 12 in east Lewis County, Washington, U.S.. It is near to Salkum.Ethel has a post office, and is serviced by Lewis County Fire District 8 ....
, USA
People:
- Ethel Percy AndrusEthel Percy AndrusEthel Percy Andrus was a long-time educator and the first woman high school principal in California. She was also the founder of AARP in 1958. In 1995 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.-Life:She earned a bachelor of philosophy Ethel Percy...
(1884–1967), educator and founder of AARP (formerly American Association of Retired Persons) - Ethel BarrymoreEthel BarrymoreEthel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors.-Early life:Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew...
(1879–1959), American stage and screen actress - Ethel CatherwoodEthel CatherwoodCompetitor for CanadaEthel Mary Catherwood was a Canadian athlete.Born in Hannah, North Dakota, USA, Ethel Catherwood was raised and educated in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, she excelled at athletics, including baseball, basketball and track and field...
(1908–1987), high jump gold medalist in the 1928 Olympics - Ethel ClaytonEthel ClaytonEthel Clayton was an American actress of the silent film era.-Career:Clayton's screen debut came in 1909, in a short called Justified. She jockeyed her early film appearances with a burgeoning stage career. Her pretty blond looks were reminiscient of the famous Gibson Girl drawings by Charles Dana...
(1882–1966), American silent film actress - Ethel HaysEthel HaysEthel Hays was an American syndicated cartoonist specializing in flapper-themed comic strips in the 1920s and 1930s. She drew in an art deco style. In the later part of her career, during the 1940s and 1950s, she became one of the country's most accomplished children's book illustrators.-Early...
(1892–1989), American syndicated cartoonist and children's book illustrator - Ethel Skakel KennedyEthel Skakel KennedyEthel Skakel Kennedy is the widow of Robert F. Kennedy, who served as Attorney General of the United States and a United States Senator for the state of New York.-Early life:...
(born 1928), widow of Robert F. Kennedy - Ethel MacDonaldEthel MacDonaldEthel MacDonald was a Glasgow-based Scottish anarchist and activist and, in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, a propagandist on Barcelona Loyalist radio.-Early years:...
(1909—1960), Scottish anarchist and activist, propagandist during the Spanish Civil War - Ethel MermanEthel MermanEthel Merman was an American actress and singer. Known primarily for her powerful voice and roles in musical theatre, she has been called "the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage." Among the many standards introduced by Merman in Broadway musicals are "I Got Rhythm", "Everything's...
(1908–1984), American actress and singer - Ethel L. PayneEthel L. PayneEthel L. Payne was an African American journalist. Known as the "First Lady of the Black Press", she was a columnist, lecturer, and free-lance writer. She combined advocacy with journalism as she reported on the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s...
(1911–1991), African American journalist - Ethel Roosevelt DerbyEthel Roosevelt DerbyEthel Carow Roosevelt Derby was the youngest daughter and fourth child of the President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt...
(1891–1977), younger daughter of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt - Julius and Ethel RosenbergJulius and Ethel RosenbergEthel Greenglass Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg were American communists who were convicted and executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war. The charges related to their passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union...
(1915–1953), American executed for espionage - Ethel SchwabacherEthel SchwabacherEthel Kremer Schwabacher was a protege of Arshile Gorky, his first biographer, and herself a well-known abstract expressionist painter. Her daughter is the American writer and translator, Brenda Webster....
(1903–1984), American abstract expressionist painter - Ethel ShannonEthel ShannonEthel Shannon was an American actress. She appeared in over 30 silent movies in the early 20th century.-Early life and career:...
(1898–1951), American silent film actress - Ethel Smith (organist)Ethel Smith (organist)Ethel Smith was an organist who played primarily in a pop style on the Hammond organ.Her recording of Tico Tico was her best-known hit. It reached No. 14 on the U.S. pop charts in November 1944 and sold over one million copies worldwide. She also recorded it for the 1944 film, Bathing Beauty...
(1910–1996) - Ethel SmythEthel SmythDame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE was an English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement.- Early career :...
(1858–1944), English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement - Ethel TurnerEthel TurnerEthel Turner was an Australian novelist and children's writer.She was born Ethel Mary Burwell in Doncaster in England. Her father died when she was two, leaving her mother Sarah Jane Burwell with two daughters . A year later, Sarah Jane married Henry Turner, who was twenty years older and had six...
(1872–1958), Australian novelist and children's writer - Ethel Lilian VoynichEthel Lilian VoynichEthel Lilian Voynich, née Boole was a British novelist and musician, and a supporter of several revolutionary causes. She was born in Cork. Her father was the mathematician George Boole. Her mother was feminist philosopher Mary Everest, niece of George Everest and an author for the...
(1864–1960), English novelist and musician, and a supporter of several revolutionary causes - Ethel WatersEthel WatersEthel Waters was an American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress. She frequently performed jazz, big band, and pop music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts, although she began her career in the 1920s singing blues.Her best-known recordings includes, "Dinah", "Birmingham Bertha",...
(1896–1977), American blues and jazz vocalist and actress
Fictional characters:
- "Big" Ethel Muggs, from Archie Comics
- Ethel MertzEthel MertzEthel Roberta Louise Mae Mertz is one of the four main fictional characters in the highly popular 1950s and 1960s American television sitcom I Love Lucy, played by Vivian Vance. Ethel is the main character Lucy's middle-aged landlady - supposed to have been born about 1905, and raised in New Mexico...
, from the television program I Love Lucy - Ethel SkinnerEthel SkinnerEthel May Skinner is a fictional character from the British soap opera EastEnders, played by the late Gretchen Franklin. Ethel Skinner also features in a 1988 EastEnders special, entitled Civvy Street, set on Albert Square during the Second World War, where the character is played by Alison...
, in the British soap opera EastEnders - Ethel Hallow, from The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy