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Lady Isobel Gathorne-Hardy, DCVO, (née Stanley; 1875 – 1963) was a British courtier, best known for helping to popularize ice hockey in the early days of the sport in Canada. The daughter of Lord Stanley of Preston, former Governor General of Canada, and Lady Constance Villiers, she was one of the earliest European women known to have played the sport. Today, she is celebrated as an early pioneer of women's ice hockey and the championship trophy of the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) is called the Isobel Cup in her honor.
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Isobel Yeung is a British long-form documentary senior correspondent. She has covered a variety of stories concerning major global issues such as ongoing world conflicts, terrorism, mass detention, and genocide. She has also reported on social issues in developing countries such as gender roles, women's rights (e.g. in Afghanistan), mental health and corruption. Her work has earned her two Emmy Awards and a Gracie Award.
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Isobel Wylie Hutchison, FRGS, (1889 – 1982) was a Scottish Arctic traveller, filmmaker and botanist. Hutchison published poetry, books describing her travels to Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands, and articles in National Geographic and other magazines. She lectured frequently, using her films, photographs and paintings to illustrate her talks. Her papers were gifted to the National Library of Scotland by her long-time friend Medina Lewis.
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Isobel Holly is a young English singer from Bath. I am not sure though if Holly is her middle name or surname as I couldn't find the info on that.
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Isobel (Izzy) is the name of one of the primary characters in George Macdonald's Salted with Fire.
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In the 1950s and 1960s the refined and elegant Lady Isobel Barnett (born Isobel Morag Marshall in Aberdeen) was a popular British TV personality. A doctor, she was born in 1918 and died in tragic circumstances in 1980.
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Isobel Gowdie was a Scottish woman who was tried for witchcraft in 1662. Her detailed confession, apparently achieved without the use of torture, offers one of the most detailed looks at European witchcraft folklore at the end of the era of witch-hunts.
There is no record of her being executed.
In 1955, retired English soldier Robin Green believed that he saw the ghost of Isobel Gowdie while camping alone in Auldearn.
Isobel Gowdie and her magic have been remembered in a number of later works of culture. She has appeared as a character in several novels, such as the biographical novels The Devil's Mistress by novelist and occultist J. W. Brodie-Innes, Isobel by Jane Parkhurst, the fantasy novel Night Plague by Graham Masterton, and Noches Paganas: Cuentos Narrados junto al Fuego del Sabbath by Luis G. Abbadie;
Isobel Gowdie is also the subject of songs by Creeping Myrtle and Alex Harvey. Maddy Prior's song The Fabled Hare is based upon the spell quoted above. The Inkubus Sukkubus song Woman to Hare, from the album Vampyre Erotica is based on Isobel's statement, and quotes her words at the end of the lyrics. The Confession of Isobel Gowdie is a work for symphony orchestra by the Scottish composer James MacMillan.
Furthermore, some of her own literary works have been included in Oxford University Press's Early Modern Women Poets: 1520-1700: An Anthology, as well as World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time.
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There is no record of her being executed.
In 1955, retired English soldier Robin Green believed that he saw the ghost of Isobel Gowdie while camping alone in Auldearn.
Isobel Gowdie and her magic have been remembered in a number of later works of culture. She has appeared as a character in several novels, such as the biographical novels The Devil's Mistress by novelist and occultist J. W. Brodie-Innes, Isobel by Jane Parkhurst, the fantasy novel Night Plague by Graham Masterton, and Noches Paganas: Cuentos Narrados junto al Fuego del Sabbath by Luis G. Abbadie;
Isobel Gowdie is also the subject of songs by Creeping Myrtle and Alex Harvey. Maddy Prior's song The Fabled Hare is based upon the spell quoted above. The Inkubus Sukkubus song Woman to Hare, from the album Vampyre Erotica is based on Isobel's statement, and quotes her words at the end of the lyrics. The Confession of Isobel Gowdie is a work for symphony orchestra by the Scottish composer James MacMillan.
Furthermore, some of her own literary works have been included in Oxford University Press's Early Modern Women Poets: 1520-1700: An Anthology, as well as World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time.
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Isobel is Julia's twin sister in the book My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.
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Someone with this spelling is Isobel Campbell, formerly of the Scottish band Belle&Sebastian.
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"Dear Isobel" is a song found in Dido's first album.
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A famous Björk song is called Isobel. It is a part of a saga of a girl that was born in a forest, and after a lot of disappoitments decides to isolate herself, that's why she's called ISObel, not ISAbel.
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A famous bearer was Isobel MacDuff, Countess of Buchan, who ran away from her husband to crown Robert the Bruce. When she was captured by the English, they hung her in a cage off the walls of Berwick castle for five years, and she survived.
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In the movie "Lady Hawk," the female lead is named Isobel. I think it is a beautiful name.
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Just a side note: In the movie Lady Hawk, the main female character's name is Isabeau, not Isobel.
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In the movie Ladyhawke the female lead, played by Michelle Pfeiffer, is actually named Isabeau. Both are beautiful names though.
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Isobel Campbell is a Scottish singer and composer in the "twee pop" musical movement. Isobel was a member of the band Belle & Sebastian from their formation in Glasgow in 1996, until 2002.
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