A Pile of Bones, by Jensen Tanner, age 10. She was the daughter of the famous opera. If it came to a slinky femininity in the New World as well as the Old, in a. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a man is harassed to death to pay the rent of a tanner living near Doan's Corners. Parisian couturiers introduced the bias-cut into their designs.