Stephanie Cole to join Coronation Street cast". BBC News. 17 December 2010 . Retrieved 17 December 2017. Will love and patience win the day, and Eleanor join hands with John at last? Or is she doomed to live and die a Widow in Waiting? As for convincing people this is more than fanfic… I have to let my writing speak for itself on that one. It helps that A Widow in Waiting and the other books in the Glenscar series are not related to the Dangerverse. People are going to have their opinions no matter what, and the worst thing I think I could do would be to try to deny that I also write fanfic, because not only would that be a lie, it would imply that I’m ashamed of my fanfic, and I’m not. On the contrary, I’m immensely grateful for the chance to play in Jo Rowling’s sandbox before I move on to building towers of my own.

Patricia Stephanie Cole OBE (born 5 October 1941) [1] is an English stage, television, radio and film actress, known for high-profile roles in shows such as Tenko (1981–1985), Open All Hours (1982–1985), A Bit of a Do (1989), Waiting for God (1990–1994), Keeping Mum (1997–1998), Doc Martin (2004–2009), Cabin Pressure (2008–2014), Still Open All Hours (2013–2019), Man Down (2014–2017) and as Sylvia Goodwin in ITV soap opera Coronation Street (2011–2013). Cole has also performed as a stage actress for more than fifty years. On the West End stage, she has featured in The Mousetrap in 1968 ( Ambassadors Theatre) as Miss Casewell, Noises Off in 1983 ( Savoy Theatre), Steel Magnolias in 1989 ( Lyric Theatre) and Quartet in 1999 ( Albery Theatre). Her most prominent stage role was as Betty in the hit comedy A Passionate Woman written by Kay Mellor. The play, directed by Ned Sherrin, opened at the Comedy Theatre in 1994 and had a nine-month extended run. On the West End's production's last curtain call, Cole was made the subject of This Is Your Life. [ citation needed] Radio [ edit ]

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In Islam, iddah or iddat ( Arabic: العدة, romanized: al-ʿidda; "period of waiting") is the period a woman must observe after the death of her husband or after a divorce, during which she may not marry another man. [1] :472 [2] One of its main purposes is to remove any doubt as to the paternity of a child born after the divorce or death of the prior husband. Henry, one of the first British aristocrats to speak openly about aids, died in 1990, at the age of twenty-nine. Charlie got sober after six years of heroin addiction, married, and had a son, but in 1996, at the age of thirty-nine, he succumbed to hepatitis C. Allah has given us guidance for all occasions. In regards the waiting period, He Most High tells us in the Qur’an (2:234), “If any of you die and leave widows behind, they shall wait concerning themselves four months and ten days.”

By the societal laws of the day, Eleanor should return to her father's home and go through a set period of mourning, at least six months, before she can marry again. She is willing to do so if it means she will eventually have her chance to marry John (whose kind ways and clear concern for her have won her heart), but her father has a "better" second husband in mind for his daughter than some penniless Irish horse breeder. To add to the fun, Eleanor has a power of her own, that of moving, which she must train in secret, though she has the help of her nurse, Annie. Six months seems both far too long and not long enough.I was introduced to Steve the week of the Cuban missile crisis. One month later we were engaged and six months later we were married. I loved his principles — to work for social good rather than money. I also loved the fact that in 1963 he was a feminist. A:Time and money. I’m an impatient sort of person and didn’t feel like waiting six months only to get a rejection letter, then three more for another one, then four more for another one after that — and since most publishers frown on simultaneous submissions, that’s exactly what I’d be doing. My self-publishing venues pay me between 65% and 75% of the sale price for each copy I sell. Although Anne had grown up in splendor, none of it—not the house, the land, the jewels, the antiquities—was hers to inherit. According to English laws of primogeniture, an earldom can pass only to a son or other male descendant. Some of Anne’s relatives saw her gender as a problem from the start. “There’s a photograph of me right on that staircase,” she told me when I met her at Holkham Hall, one morning in early December. “I’m in my father’s arms, and Grandpa’s there, and Great-Grandpa’s there, looking terribly disappointed in me.”