Mary Burchell (1904–1986)
Autore di Safe Passage: The Remarkable True Story of Two Sisters Who Rescued Jews from the Nazis
Sull'Autore
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Ida Cook also writes as Mary Burchell and James Keene (with Will Cook).
Fonte dell'immagine: Ida Cook (aka Mary Burchell)
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Opere di Mary Burchell
Safe Passage: The Remarkable True Story of Two Sisters Who Rescued Jews from the Nazis (1950) 156 copie
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume VIII: Choose the One You'll Marry / Sweet Barbary / Senior Surgeon at St. David's (1971) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XLIII: The Reluctant Guest / Nurse in Waiting / Away Went Love (1974) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XIII: Dear Sir / Nurse at Ryeminster / The Blue Caribbean (1971) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XLV: On the Air / Doctor Benedict / The Black Cameron (1974) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Harlequin Omnibus 77: It's Rumoured in the Village / Except My Love / Strangers May Marry (1977) 2 copie
Romance Treasury: Yours With Love / Man in the Shadows / The Everywhere Man (1987) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Harlequin Omnibus 37: The Other Linding Girl / Girl With a Challenge / My Sister Celia (1976) 2 copie
Romance Treasury: Tell Me My Fortune / A Scent of Lemons / Country of the Wine (1979) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Romance Treasury: The Guarded Gates / Pay Me Tomorrow / The Darling Pirate (1977) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XLI: Over the Blue Mountains / Summer Lightning / Lucy Lamb, Doctor's Wife — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XXXVII: Once You Have Found Him / Plantation Doctor / Paris- and My Love — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XVI: Portrait of Susan / Doctor's Orders / Love Him or Leave Him — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XXXI: Towards the Sun / The Wedding Dress / The House on Flamingo Cay (1973) 1 copia
Liefde kent geen grenzen 1 copia
3 Great Novels By Mary Burchell 1 copia
Pension op stelten 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Burchell, Mary
- Nome legale
- Cook, Ida
- Altri nomi
- Burchell, Mary (pen name)
Keene, James (pen name) - Data di nascita
- 1904-08-24
- Data di morte
- 1986-12-22
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Sunderland, Durham, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Northumberland, England, UK
London, England, UK - Istruzione
- Duchess' School, Alnwick
- Attività lavorative
- romance novelist
journalist
civil servant
autobiographer
Holocaust rescuer - Relazioni
- Krauss, Clemens (friend)
- Organizzazioni
- Romantic Novelists' Association (president)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Righteous among the Nations
Blue Plaque - Breve biografia
- Ida Cook was born on 24 August 1904 at 37 Croft Avenue, Sunderland, England. With her elder sister Mary Louise Cook (1901), she attended the Duchess' School in Alnwick. Later the sisters took civil service jobs in London, and developed a passionate interest in opera.
A constant presence at Covent Garden, the pair became close to some of the greatest singers of the era; Amelia Galli-Curci, Rosa Ponselle, Tito Gobbi and Maria Callas. They also came to know the Austrian conductor Clemens Krauss, and it was through he that Cooks learned of the persecution of European Jews. In 1934, Krauss's wife asked the sisters to help a friend to leave Germany. Having accomplished this, the sisters continued the good work, pretending to be eccentric opera fanatics willing to go anywhere to hear a favourite artist. Krauss assisted them, even arranging to perform in cities they needed to visit. The sisters made repeated trips to Germany, bringing back jewellery and valuables belonging to Jewish families. This enabled Jews to satisfy British requirements as regards financial security - Jews were not allowed to leave Germany with their money. Using many techniques of evasion, including re-labelling furs with London labels, the sisters enabled 29 persons to escape from almost certain death.
The Cooks' own finances were little precarious, and when Ida obtained a contract with Mills and Boon to published her first novel in 1936, she left the Civil Service to write full time. As Mary Burchell, she became a prolific writer of romantic fiction. Her great popularity helped the success of Mills and Boon, and guaranteed substantial income after the war. For many decades, her writing supported her two passions: refugees and young opera singers. Her flat in Dolphin Square at various times housed homeless European families.
In 1950, Ida Cook wrote her autobiography: "We followed our stars", and in 1965, the Cook sisters were honoured as Righteous Gentiles by the Yad Vashem Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority in Israel, thus joining Oskar Schindler among others.
She helped to found and was for many years president of the Romantic Novelist's Association. As Mary Burchell, she wrote over a hundred romance novels, many of which were translated, and her most famous work is "The Warrender Saga", a series about the opera world, full of real details. She also wrote as James Keene with William Everett Cook.
Ida Cook passed away on December 22, 1986 and her sister Louise in 1991. - Nota di disambiguazione
- Ida Cook also writes as Mary Burchell and James Keene (with Will Cook).
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- Opere
- 138
- Utenti
- 1,409
- Popolarità
- #18,236
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 62
- ISBN
- 227
- Lingue
- 4
- Preferito da
- 3