Harriet

The hotel telephone is in the hall and Harriet is trying to ring the police now.

Harriet looked slightly abashed.

Harriet was holding a placard demanding marriage equality.

Harriet chose Lonesome Tonight as her favourite song by New Order, while Robin chose Ecstasy.

"People are fascinated with Harriet Tubman because they see her as an ordinary person who rose up against all odds to escape the savagery of slavery," said Donald Pinder, president of a group that runs the Harriet Tubman Museum in Cambridge, Maryland.

Harriet Jones is the original carrier.

Harriet, by the way, is a very sprightly name. It is the female of Harry, and is identified in my imagination with I know not what of the power of being lively and saucy, without committing the sweetness of womanhood.

I found myself wanting to explain it to her, this middle-aged woman with the kind of haircut you call a hairdo, which needed to be set in rollers every night, who had a name like Agnes or Harriet, a name that even predated my mother's generation.