Lillian Gordy Carter Nursing in honor of the work she did in India. The Atlanta Regional Office of the Peace Corps has named an award in her honor for volunteers over 50 who make the biggest contribution. When Jimmy Carter decided to run for president, his mother was one of the first people he told. He was initially regarded as a dark horse candidate for the Democratic Party nomination. Lillian Carter was well known as "Miss Lillian" and she published two books during his Presidency, "Miss Lillian and Friends" and "Away from Home: Letters to my Family", both published in 1977. The latter
Lillian Spender the "Dublin University Review", the "British Quarterly Review", and to a magazine called "Meliora"; but after 1869, she chiefly confined herself to novel-writing. She was active in educational and social work in Bath until her health failed. She died at Bath on 4 May 1895. Of Spender's eight children, seven survived her. Two of her sons, J. A. Spender and Harold Spender, were well-known London journalists. Lillian Spender Lillian Spender (usually known as Mrs. John Kent Spender; 22 February 1835 – 4 May 1895) was an English novelist. Lillian (nickname, Lily) Headland was born on 22 February 1835, and was