Sentences with phrase «widowed landlady»

Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all deeply in need of shelter.

Over the course of this short, accessible book, developmentally disabled high school graduates Biddy and Quincy and their recently widowed landlady Elizabeth gradually transform from characters weighed down by their pasts — and by the labels society has assigned them — into people who can build friendships and careers and find happiness despite obstacles.

The acting's superb throughout, with crucial contributions coming from Dorothy Atkinson (as the housemaid who's also Turner's sometime, much - neglected lover) and by Marion Bailey as the twice - widowed landlady who takes a flat in Chelsea with the iconoclastic Turner.

After taking the anguishing death of his father hard, Turner immersed himself deeper into his work and began a courtship with a twice - widowed landlady named Sophia Booth (Marion Bailey, another Leigh regular).