Her own female trials — undereducation (save in "modern languages and good manners," her memoir, "A Backward Glance," allows), a stifling marriage, neurasthenic illness and breakdown — came early, and were followed by a long, gathering triumph of best-selling fame and expatriate pomp.
Partly, it has come in response to a feeling, long gathering in staff rooms, that the labours of an entire childhood and adolescence should produce more than a list of letters, A to G, that show how good you are at remembering facts.
In this case, it was Ian Tattersall of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City who concluded that "This new material certainly substantiates the idea, long gathering ground, that multiple lineages of early Homo are present in the record at Koobi Fora".
So drawn-out in fact that you could, as the resident of a well-known London club once did, decide that things were winding down and spend so long gathering up your crew, saying goodbye and getting mysteriously lost in the cellar, that by the time you are actually ready to leave a completely different clientele have arrived, shared all their drugs, and it's game on again.
You can skip this long gathering test if you give Darwin an Illusion Flower when initially speaking to him.
It may have seemed like a one-off location, but it is important when you've got a bounty on your head to know how to sneak in there so you can pay your bounty without losing all of the items you spent so long gathering.
Over the week-long gathering, there are hundreds of events with screenings in parks, squares and schools.
In 1981, he organised the first 'feis' (Gaelic for 'festival' or 'feast'), a community-run, week-long gathering of musicians to teach children.
The ceremony is part of a week-long gathering of Aboriginal peoples taking part in the Truth and Reconciliation Canada meetings.
The Slushy Social is a week-long gathering which takes the mantra of "going out with a bang" and runs with it.
Their weekend-long gathering in Manchester, Vt., included every detail a super-traditional wedding would, from save-the-date cards to serenading violinists at the reception.
