Mary Burchell (1904–1986)
Autor(a) de Safe Passage: The Remarkable True Story of Two Sisters Who Rescued Jews from the Nazis
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
(eng) Ida Cook also writes as Mary Burchell and James Keene (with Will Cook).
Image credit: Ida Cook (aka Mary Burchell)
Séries
Obras por Mary Burchell
Safe Passage: The Remarkable True Story of Two Sisters Who Rescued Jews from the Nazis (1950) 157 exemplares
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume VIII: Choose the One You'll Marry / Sweet Barbary / Senior Surgeon at St. David's (1971) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XLIII: The Reluctant Guest / Nurse in Waiting / Away Went Love (1974) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Harlequin Omnibus 04: The Heart Cannot Forget / Ward of Lucifer / A Home for Joy (1975) 3 exemplares
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XIII: Dear Sir / Nurse at Ryeminster / The Blue Caribbean (1971) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Bosnimf 2 exemplares
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XLV: On the Air / Doctor Benedict / The Black Cameron (1974) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Harlequin Omnibus 77: It's Rumoured in the Village / Except My Love / Strangers May Marry (1977) 2 exemplares
Romance Treasury: Yours With Love / Man in the Shadows / The Everywhere Man (1987) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Harlequin Omnibus 37: The Other Linding Girl / Girl With a Challenge / My Sister Celia (1976) 2 exemplares
Romance Treasury: Tell Me My Fortune / A Scent of Lemons / Country of the Wine (1979) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Romance Treasury: The Guarded Gates / Pay Me Tomorrow / The Darling Pirate (1977) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XXXVII: Once You Have Found Him / Plantation Doctor / Paris- and My Love — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XVI: Portrait of Susan / Doctor's Orders / Love Him or Leave Him — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XXXI: Towards the Sun / The Wedding Dress / The House on Flamingo Cay (1973) 1 exemplar
3 Great Novels By Mary Burchell 1 exemplar
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XLI: Over the Blue Mountains / Summer Lightning / Lucy Lamb, Doctor's Wife — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Pension op stelten 1 exemplar
Harlequin Omnibus 17 - Take Me with You / Choose Which You Will / Meant for Each Other (1978) 1 exemplar
Liefde kent geen grenzen 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Burchell, Mary
- Nome legal
- Cook, Ida
- Outros nomes
- Burchell, Mary (pen name)
Keene, James (pen name) - Data de nascimento
- 1904-08-24
- Data de falecimento
- 1986-12-22
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Sunderland, Durham, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Northumberland, England, UK
London, England, UK - Educação
- Duchess' School, Alnwick
- Ocupações
- romance novelist
journalist
civil servant
autobiographer
Holocaust rescuer - Relações
- Krauss, Clemens (friend)
- Organizações
- Romantic Novelists' Association (president)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Righteous among the Nations
Blue Plaque
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- 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 de desambiguação
- Ida Cook also writes as Mary Burchell and James Keene (with Will Cook).
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 139
- Membros
- 1,414
- Popularidade
- #18,192
- Avaliação
- 3.3
- Críticas
- 62
- ISBN
- 227
- Línguas
- 4
- Marcado como favorito
- 3