claim: Brian De Palma is a Westerner.
evidence: Constance Talbot -LRB- nee Mundy , 1811 -- 1880 -RRB- was from 1832 the wife of William Henry Fox Talbot , one of the key players in the development of photography in the 1830s and 1840s .. William Henry Fox Talbot. William Henry Fox Talbot. She herself briefly experimented with the process as early as 1839 and has been credited as the first woman ever to take a photograph - a hazy image of a short verse by the Irish poet Thomas Moore .. Thomas Moore. Thomas Moore. Constance , who came from Markeaton in Derbyshire , was the youngest daughter of Francis Mundy -LRB- 1771 -- 1837 -RRB- , Member of Parliament for that county from 1822 to 1831 .. Markeaton. Markeaton. Francis Mundy. Francis Mundy