Marian Shields Robinson Marian Shields Robinson Marian Lois Robinson (née Shields; born July 30, 1937) is the mother of Michelle Obama, former First Lady of the United States, and mother-in-law of Barack Obama, former President. Marian Shields was born in Chicago in 1937, the fourth of seven children—five girls, followed by two boys—born to Purnell Nathaniel Shields, a house painter, and his wife Rebecca Jumper, a licensed practical nurse. Two of her sisters and her brother Steve still live in Chicago on the South Side, as she did. Both parents had multi-racial ancestry, but slavery times were not discussed much when she was
Maiden Bright-eye Maiden Bright-eye Maiden Bright-eye is a Danish fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in "The Pink Fairy Book". It is Aarne-Thompson type 480: the kind and the unkind girls. A man has a son and a daughter, that latter of whom is known as Maiden Bright-eye. His wife dies and he marries another woman, who has a daughter of her own. The stepmother is cruel to her Bright-eye. One day, the stepmother sends her to watch the sheep and pull heather. For dinner, the stepmother packs Maiden Bright-eye pancakes with flour that has been mixed with ashes. Maiden Bright-eye pulls