In New York City, while working at book-packaging firm Alloy Entertainment, she became inspired to create the "Gossip Girl" series, which presents a view of high-end teenage lifestyles. The series climbed to the top of "The New York Times" Best-Sellers list in 2002. A spin-off book series, "The It Girl", made the list in 2005. The Constance Billard School for Girls is based on an exaggerated version of Ziegesar's own alma mater, Nightingale. In October 2011, Ziegesar released a spin-off of her first novel: "Psycho Killer".
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Cecily von Ziegesar | Book series
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"This series was written by a ghost-writer, with guidance from Cecily von Ziegesar."
Cecily von Ziegesar | "The It Girl"
Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar ( ; born June 27, 1970) is an American author best known for the young adult "Gossip Girl" series of novels.
Cecily von Ziegesar | Introduction
"This series is actually written by Annabelle Vestry, though Cecily von Ziegesar's name is on the spine and front."
Cecily von Ziegesar | "Gossip Girl: The Carlyles"
Then she spent a year in Budapest working for a local radio station. She then returned to the United States to study creative writing at the University of Arizona, only to drop out shortly thereafter.
Cecily von Ziegesar | Early life and education
In New York City, while working at book-packaging firm Alloy Entertainment, she became inspired to create the "Gossip Girl" series, which presents a view of high-end teenage lifestyles. The series climbed to the top of "The New York Times" Best-Sellers list in 2002. A spin-off book series, "The It Girl", made the list in 2005. The Constance Billard School for Girls is based on an exaggerated version of Ziegesar's own alma mater, Nightingale. In October 2011, Ziegesar released a spin-off of her first novel: "Psycho Killer".
Cecily von Ziegesar | Book series
In early 2011, The CW renewed the series for a fifth season. On May 16, 2011, Ziegesar herself made a cameo appearance in the fourth season finale.
Cecily von Ziegesar | Television series
In December 2009, Yen Press announced that it was working with South Korean artist Baek Hye-Kyung to create a graphic novel adaptation of the series titled "Gossip Girl: For Your Eyes Only". Rather than adapting the original novels, however, the graphic novels will feature original stories with the same characters. It will be serialized in the company's anthology magazine "Yen Plus", with the first chapter appearing in the January 2010 issue.
Cecily von Ziegesar | Graphic novel series
"Gossip Girl" was adapted for television in 2007. The show premiered to mixed reviews and lost more than a million viewers from episode one to two, from 3.65 million to 2.55 million. The rest of the season's viewers went up and down, the highest being 3 million viewers for the season finale and the lowest being 1.80 million viewers for episode eleven. Controversy and criticism surrounding the show surfaced due to the fact that it failed to show much of the books' plots, character personalities, and other major and minor facts, thus disappointing many fans of the novels. However, Ziegesar told ABC News that her major plot lines were there and that "at least it takes place in New York City".
Cecily von Ziegesar | Television series
The It Girl is a series of novels created by bestselling novelist Cecily von Ziegesar. The series is ghostwritten from the original idea by von Ziegesar. The series, aimed toward young adults, is a spin-off from the bestselling "Gossip Girl" series.
The It Girl (novel series) | Introduction
Reckless is the third book in The It Girl novels by the German American author Cecily von Ziegesar. The series is ghostwritten from the original idea by Ziegesar. The series, aimed toward young adults, is a spin-off from the bestselling "Gossip Girl" series. It was released in 2006 by Little, Brown.
Reckless (von Ziegesar novel) | Introduction
In 1711 France, Cécile Revel is the daughter of a poor doctor, although she has learned to read and write and is an independent young lady. After helping a woman who had fallen from a horse, she ends up serving in the Versailles court of King Louis XIV. In the complicated world of court life, Cécile gradually discovers that her heart and spirit are more noble than she thinks. When most of the royal family falls ill, Cécile cannot bear for them all to die in the hands of misguided court physicians, and locking herself and some maids in a room with the young Duke d'Anjou away from the doctors, saving his life.
Girls of Many Lands | Cécile (Gates of Gold) "France, 1711"
Cecily von Ziegesar was born in New York City into a German noble family. She is the daughter of Franz Albrecht von Ziegesar, the CEO and Chairman of Bowne & Co., and his second wife, Olivia James. She is the half-sister of writer Peter von Ziegesar. Her childhood dream was to grow up to be a ballerina; she began lessons at age three and auditioned for the School of American Ballet at age eight, but was rejected. As a teenager, she commuted to Manhattan at 6:00 a.m. every day to attend The Nightingale-Bamford School. After graduating from Nightingale, Ziegesar attended Colby College.
Cecily von Ziegesar | Early life and education
The book was written by Mary Casanova and illustrated by Jean-Paul Tibbles.
Girls of Many Lands | Cécile (Gates of Gold) "France, 1711"
In a 2009 interview, "Gossip Girl" creator Cecily von Ziegesar claimed to identify with Blair the most, stating, "She is so unpredictable and dramatic. Such a bitch, but we understand why she is a bitch and we like her anyway".
Blair Waldorf | Novel series
Von Ziegesar resides in the Columbia Street Waterfront District, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, with her husband Richard, who is Chief Operating Officer of the Judd Foundation, and their children Agnes Belle von Ziegesar Griggs and Oscar von Ziegesar Griggs.
Cecily von Ziegesar | Personal life
"One of the Wattle Birds", Anderson's seventh and final novel, was published in 1994. Set in Sydney, it details three days in the life of Cecily Ambruss. Although the novel is ostensibly set in the present, the final paragraph of the novel reveals that the three-day sequence has been devised by Cecily as a means of coping with the fact that a year earlier, her mother, Christine had died of breast cancer, while Cecily had been away on holiday. Throughout the novel, Cecily attempts to resolve two quandaries: she does not understand why her mother did not tell her about that fatal illness and let her go overseas, refusing to let family members call her back, even for the funeral, nor why Christine included the cruel stipulation in her will that Cecily must marry before she can inherit.
Jessica Anderson (writer) | "One of the Wattle Birds"
The disapproving Duchess, who was known in real life as "proud Cis," is too easily overcome by her social inferiors when they whip out her apparent "secret" affair with a French archer and Elizabeth commands that she bow before her. Lost for words, she is silenced within minutes, almost cowed by them. While contemporary notions of "courtesy" dictated extreme forms of submission to the queen, this is a Lady Cecily straight from the pages of a novel rather than the actual proud aristocrat who asserted her own right to rule. The "Cousins' War" series of novels by Philippa Gregory:
Cecily Neville, Duchess of York | Fictional portrayals
Metacritic gave it a score of 59, based on the reviews of 40 different publications. Toward the conclusion of the first season, Janet Malcolm of "The New Yorker" criticized the show for its deviations from the novels. She has stated that the series was "related to the original only in the names and outlines of the characters". She further asserted that, "Without von Ziegesar's fast, mocking commentary to propel them, the TV episodes are sluggish and crass—a move from Barneys to Kmart." However, author Cecily von Ziegesar has expressed support for the show, noting that all of her major plot points were present in the pilot.
Gossip Girl | Critical response
Summaries of the stories and keys to the characters may be found in Heinrich Körting, "Geschichte des französischen Romans im 17ten Jahrhundert" (second edition, Oppeln, 1891).
Madeleine de Scudéry | Literature
17-year-old Cécile spends her summer in a villa on the French Riviera with her father Raymond and his current mistress, the young, superficial, fashionable Elsa, who gets on well with Cécile. Raymond is an attractive, worldly, amoral man who excuses his serial philandering with an Oscar Wilde quote about sin: "Sin is the only note of vivid colour that persists in the modern world." Cécile says, "I believed that I could base my life on it", and accepts their languorous lifestyle as the ideal of privileged status. One of its advantages for Cécile is that her father, who has no intellectual interests, does not care if she studies or not.
Bonjour Tristesse | Plot summary
Cecil Beaton attempted to have all the copies destroyed. The novel subsequently disappeared from circulation, making it extremely rare. The story is not included in the Berners anthology "Collected Tales and Fantasies", but it was reprinted in 2000 thanks to the efforts of Dorothy Lygon. The characters and their real-life selves, according to an annotation in Cyril Connolly's copy of the novel, and endorsed by Robert Heber-Percy with the annotation "How did you guess?", are: Miss Carfax: Lord Berners; Miss MacRogers: Jimmy Foster; Olive Mason: Oliver Messel; Cecily: Cecil Beaton; Daisy: David Herbert; Lizzie: Peter Watson; Millie: Robert Heber-Percy; Yoshiwara: Pavel Tchelitchew; Goussie: Christian Bérard; Helene de Troy: Jack Wilson; Vivian Dorrick: Doris Castlerosse; May: Robin Thomas (USA).
The Girls of Radcliff Hall | Introduction
Viola Corbett lives amid luxury in Vienna with her husband, Count Eugene Erhmann, their children, Therese and Lorenz, and her illegitimate son James-Carlo, until all collapses with the outbreak of the First World War. A story of greed, lust, and unreasonable hate; but most of all, a captivating romance.
Countess (novel) | Plot
He and Cécile meet by accident, before he even arrives at Castle Königsbrunn and is stunned by her beauty. He later gets the surprise of his life, when Johannes presents the young woman as his new wife. Leonard tries to stay distance to the married couple and even suggests to go back to Chicago. But Johannes is so excited that Leonard returned and wants his son to stay. Cécile eventually begins to fall deeply for Leonard and so does he. They end up having a secret affair with each other, while Johannes has the wish to have another child with Cécile.
Johannes von Lahnstein | Storylines
Elsa moves out, then Anne tries to take Cécile under her wing. She tells Cécile to stop seeing Cyril and get back to her schoolbooks. Horrified at this threat to her lazy life as her father's darling, especially when contrasted with the romance between Raymond and Anne, Cécile devises a plan to prevent the marriage, while nevertheless feeling ambiguous about her machinations. With the idea of making Raymond jealous, Cécile arranges for Elsa and Cyril to pretend to be a couple and appear together at specific moments. When Raymond predictably becomes jealous of the younger Cyril as the result of Cécile's scheming, he eventually pursues Elsa once again.
Bonjour Tristesse | Plot summary
The books in the series are: The books' illustrations are by Iain McIntosh.
Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld | Book series
Cécile is an historical novel by the British writer F. L. Lucas. His second novel, first published in 1930, it is a story of love, society and politics in the France of 1775–1776, set largely in Picardy and Paris, which locations form its two parts.
Cécile (novel) | Introduction
In the final years of her life, decades after "Agnes", Caroline von Wolzogen wrote her second and final novel, "Cordelia", which was published in 1840. Set during the Wars of Liberation, the novel centers around a woman torn between an obscure soldier she loves and an aristocrat she is pressured to marry by her family. The novel celebrates the soldier's national devotion even while Cordelia marries the aristocrat, albeit without consummating the marriage.
Caroline von Wolzogen | Weimar literary life
Kreizler series Other Novels Nonfiction
Caleb Carr | Books
It contrasts a pair of German sisters and is a tale of skilful suspense with a happy dénouement. "Quits" (London, 1857; in German, Leipzig, 1863) concerns how the life of the mind may protect someone from frivolous society. It devotes 60 pages in three chapters to the Oberammergau Passion Play performance of 1850. "Cyrilla" (1853 in German, Leipzig, 1854) is founded on the true-life murder trial of Assessor Zahn. The last novel, "At Odds" (1863), suffered in the author's view from being written in a period of prolonged ill-health. A more recent account of Baroness von Tautphoeus states that her novels point to a person of conservative tastes, very well read in English, German and French.
Jemima von Tautphoeus | Career
Even though, Cécile needs a little bit time to let Johannes in her heart, they become a couple. Carla doesn't like Cécile from the beginning, because she doesn't think that a woman of Carla's age could fall for her father. Cécile tries to prove Carla wrong, but she keeps her doubts. It doesn't take Johannes long and he proposes. Cécile thinks it is too soon for them to get married, but then agrees anyway. She and Johannes celebrate their happiness with a big wedding. Soon after the wedding, Leonard comes back from the United States, where he went to college to study medicine.
Johannes von Lahnstein | Storylines
She is now known invariably as Elizabeth von Arnim. She used the pen name Alice Cholmondeley only for the novel "Christine", published in 1917.
Elizabeth von Arnim | Introduction
The novel was published on 1 May 1930 by Chatto & Windus of London, and reprinted in Chatto's 'Centaur Library' in July of that year and again in November 1931. The first American edition, by Henry Holt and Company of New York, 1930, was, unusually for Lucas's US editions, re-set.
Cécile (novel) | Publishing history
The outcome has a twist that involves a deception, and the money being used to mount a rescue mission for those still stranded in Venezuela. Hay's writings were initially published as serials in magazines like the Family Herald, at first under the pseudonyms of Mark Hardcastle, Markham Howard or Sidney Howard. For a period she used the name M. Cecil Hay, shortening her middle name which was actually Cecilia. Many of her works were published as collections of short stories or as a three volume novel. Novels like "The Squires Legacy" were published in 60 different issues of the "Family Herald" in 1875 and this was followed by a three volume novel the same year.
Mary Cecil Hay | Career
Cécile de Brunhoff (née Sabouraud) (October 16, 1903 – April 7, 2003) was a French storyteller and the creator of the original Babar story. She was also a classically trained pianist. The Babar books began as a bedtime story de Brunhoff invented for her children, Mathieu and Laurent, when they were four and five years old, respectively. She was trying to comfort Mathieu, who was sick. The boys liked the story of the little elephant who left the jungle for a city resembling Paris so much that they took it to their father Jean de Brunhoff, a painter, and asked him to illustrate it.
Cécile de Brunhoff | Introduction
Set in the same fictional universe as "Earnest Evans" and "El Viento", the story takes place two years after "El Viento", and concludes the story of Annet and Earnest. Zigfried's true motives are finally revealed as well. Being rescued from a certain sacrifice by father figure Earnest Evans, Annet travels across Europe and encounters a local sect that wants her special pendant. After an attempted ambush in the sect's castle, she barely escapes, and begins another quest to protect the world from destruction.
Anett Futatabi | Plot
Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys is a 1939 children's short story written and illustrated by German-American author H. A. Rey. It is the first story to feature Rey's now-famous character, Curious George. When it was first published in France, Cecily's original name was "Rafi"; "Raffy" when it was first published in the United Kingdom. But when it appeared in the United States, the character was renamed "Cecily".
Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys | Introduction
He turned it into a picture book, with text, which was published by a family-run publishing house, "Le jardin des modes". Originally, it was planned that the book's title page would describe the story as "told by Jean and Cécile de Brunhoff." However, she had her name removed; according to her son Mathieu this was due to modesty, and her opinion that her contribution was minor. Due to the role she played in the genesis of the Babar story, many sources continue to refer to her as the creator of the Babar story.
Cécile de Brunhoff | Introduction
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Agnes von Krusenstjerna | Works
The success led to more novels in the Claudine series. It is generally acknowledged that these books were written by Colette, but he had his hand in editing and honing the manuscripts. Willy also went into merchandizing dolls and other items based on the Claudine novels.
Henry Gauthier-Villars | Biography
The date of the complete manuscript in the Lichtenau archive is 13 March 1930. In the archive there are other manuscripts and letters, among others to Tal Verlag, which confirm that Rolf and Elfriede Ehrenfels wrote novels together. They agreed to put one of their names on the text in turns. Evidently with the Kurban Said's novels it was Elfriede's turn . After Rolf had escaped to India February 1939 after eight months in Greece together there was no more Kurban Said.
Baron Omar Rolf von Ehrenfels | Young writers at fruitful work
Kyrielle, a young lady, tries to see him to plead the life of her boyfriend, but falls in love with the "bourreau". This book, full of humor, succeeds in relating the desensitization of society in the faces of horror.
Severin Cecile Abega | Bibliography
In 1935 she wanted to publish her memoir to set the record straight, but this caused a scandal and a court forbade their distribution. Police visited every bookshop in Vienna in order to seize the copies already on sale. In it she published Rudolf's last letter to her, and proclaimed that (in her view) he and the Baronness had made a suicide pact. Her memoir was eventually published outside of Austria in 1937 as "Ich sollte Kaiserin werden" ("I Was To Be Empress").
Princess Stéphanie of Belgium | Later life
Riley 'Dutch' Dutcher, one of the novel's characters, lives in the same apartment at 1 Mather Street that De Morier had in the 1980s. Thirty-Three Cecils won the top fiction prize at the 2015 London Book Festival and is currently under development as a feature film by Sunset River Productions and is planned for release in 2021. The book was also nominated for The John Gardner Fiction Prize and the Eastern Shore Writers Award.
Everett De Morier | Career
Some novels in the DeBeers series feature letters from characters from other V.C. Andrews novels, such as Ruby Landry and Annie Stonewall.
V. C. Andrews | The DeBeers series
He wavers, looks out of the window, sees Dick waiting in Cécile's carriage – and rejects her appeal. She returns to the family château, noticing in passing that without Gaston the estates have gone to rack and ruin, and asks her father to use his influence – only to learn with horror that it was he who ordered the arrest. Telling her father he will never see her again, she rushes out of the château and into the night. Back in Paris Dick fights a duel with Gabriel. Both men are wounded. The authorities try to keep Cécile's identity and movements secret as they transfer her between prisons, but everywhere Madame de Rieux is taken, her looks and charm leave well-wishers, and her ingenuity clues.
Cécile (novel) | Plot summary
Baroness von Tautphoeus is a member of an interesting group of writers of English fiction, who became residents in foreign countries and devoted their talents to the illustration of foreign manners. Having been extremely popular in the second half of the 19th century, they have since fallen into obscurity. Her four novels were described by Richard Garnett as "entertaining combinations of romance and travelogue," drawing on a knowledge of English and German manners and scenery. Her heroines (such as Hildegarde in "The Initials" and Leonora in "Quits") are forceful and intellectually curious. Her first, "The Initials" (London, 1850) became highly popular despite attracting little critical attention.
Jemima von Tautphoeus | Career
Lucky is the fifth book in The It Girl series, released in 2007. It was written by a ghostwriter with suggestions from Cecily von Ziegesar. Aimed toward young adults, it is a spin-off from the bestselling "Gossip Girl" series.
Lucky (von Ziegesar novel) | Introduction
Four books, written by Claudia Kühn, have been published accompanying this TV show.
Türkisch für Anfänger | Books
Once her true sex is revealed to Egyptian males through an impulsive kiss from her lover, Theodora is assaulted and disfigured, returning to Cecil after a week spent as a captive in a brothel. Though their love endures, Theodora drowns herself to escape the shame of her experience.
Annie Sophie Cory | Writing career
Mam'zelle Guillotine, by Baroness Orczy, is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, "The Scarlet Pimpernel." First published in 1940, it was the last novel Orczy wrote featuring the Pimpernel and is dedicated to those fighting in World War II. ""To all those who are fighting in the air, on the water and on land for our country and for our homes, I dedicate this because it is to them that we shall owe a happy issue out of all our troubles and a lasting peace"." - Emmuska Orczy - Monte Carlo - 1939-40
Mam'zelle Guillotine | Introduction
01—written down Nov. 02. There are no pictures, it is a good one to tell—" Potter used her cousin's daughter, Stephanie Hyde Parker, as audience for the draft of the story. She likely meant to dedicate the book to Stephanie, writing in the manuscript, "Now Stephanie, this is a story about a little girl called Lucie; she was smaller than you and could not speak quite plain.". In the end however, the book was dedicated to Lucie Carr. Stephanie would receive the dedication to "The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher" in 1906.
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle | Background
Karolina Pavlova finished her only novel, "A Double Life" (Russian: Двойная жизнь), in 1848. It is a ten-chapter novel that mixes prose and poetry to illustrate the duality of women and of members of high society. The heroine of the novel is Cecily von Lindenborn. While Cecily has an undeniable, secret yearning for poetry, women poets were "always presented to her as the most pitiable, abnormal state, as a disastrous and dangerous illness." The poetry is symbolic of the inner world of Cecily. Like most other Russian novels of the time, Pavlova's novel is situated in the aristocratic world. Cecily, a member of this world, has been so carefully brought up that "she could never commit the slightest peccadillo ...
Karolina Pavlova | "A Double Life"
However, Jenny is admitted back into Waverly.
Lucky (von Ziegesar novel) | Plot summary
Carrie Gerlach Cecil is an American writer, television show producer, public speaker, and businessperson. She wrote the novel on which the television show "Emily's Reasons Why Not" was based.
Carrie Gerlach Cecil | Introduction
Christine Arnothy (original surname Irène Kovach de Szendrö, 20 November 1930 – 6 October 2015) was a Budapest-born French writer. She has written numerous books, including "J'ai quinze ans et je ne veux pas mourir" (1955) ("I am Fifteen and I Do Not Want to Die"). She married Claude Bellanger (1909–1978). "J'ai quinze ans et je ne veux pas mourir" is based on her diary, which recorded her experience as a teenager during the 1945 siege of Budapest. She fled Hungary with her parents. When she arrived in France, her diary was the only possession she still had. The book was reviewed in "Harper's Magazine" in 1956.
Christine Arnothy | Introduction
And Tinsley knows she’ll take the heat for organizing the wild soirée in the first place. Luckily she’s come up with a crafty way to keep from getting in trouble: by blaming Jenny. Julian and Jenny get "closer than ever" and just when "things can't get any better," Jenny finds out the only reason Julian even met her is because he was hooking up with Tinsley Carmichael which causes Jenny to not trust him. Easy becomes very suspicious of Callie because of her comments towards Jenny starting the fire. Kara and Brett's relationship goes public and Brett figures out she still loves Jeremiah and Kara and Heath hook up and become a couple.
Lucky (von Ziegesar novel) | Plot summary
He ultimately learns that he is the son of a Lunarian, Kluya, and that Golbez is his brother. Golbez himself is not evil, but is being controlled by Zemus, a Lunarian who wants to wipe out all life on the Blue Planet. Although Cecil initially cannot accept that Golbez is innocent, he later forgives him, acknowledging him as his brother after Zemus' defeat. Cecil then returns to Baron, marries with Rosa, and becomes the new King of Baron. "Interlude" depicts Cecil investigating the unexplained appearance of multiple monsters one year after the events of "Final Fantasy IV". The game ends with Cecil discovering that Rosa is pregnant.
Characters of the Final Fantasy IV series | Cecil Harvey
She was born in Darmstadt. After her mother's early death, she was sent to the Kaiserin-Augusta-Stift, a very strict boarding school in Potsdam. In this institution, the girls of the aristocracy were drilled to learn discipline and submission. After leaving school, she married Baron Ludwig Hatvany (1880–1961), a rich Hungarian writer and landowner. While married to Hatvany, Winsloe wrote "Das Mädchen Manuela" ("The Child Manuela"), a short novel based on her experiences at Kaiserin-Augusta. Soon after, her marriage broke up, but Hatvany made her a generous allowance after their divorce. That novel was released in 1933. Winsloe was involved in a relationship with newspaper reporter Dorothy Thompson, probably before World War II when Thompson was reporting from Berlin.
Christa Winsloe | Biography
The novel is about The Hon. Bertie Cecil (nicknamed "Beauty of the Brigades"). In financial distress because of his own profligacy and the loss of an important horse-race on which he has bet extensively, and falsely accused of forgery, but unable to defend himself against the charge without injuring the "honour" of a lady and also exposing his younger brother (the real culprit), Cecil fakes his own death and exiles himself to Algeria where he joins the "Chasseurs d'Afrique", a regiment comprising soldiers from various countries, rather like the French Foreign Legion. After Cecil's great childhood friend and the friend's beautiful sister show up in Africa, and after a series of melodramatic self-sacrifices by Cecil and by the young girl Cigarette, a "child of the Army" who sacrifices her life saving Cecil from a firing squad, the main conflicts are resolved and the surviving characters return to England to fortune, title, and love.
Under Two Flags (novel) | Plot
It was translated into French as "Pas Si Calme" and published by Gallimard, Paris in 1931. It was translated into Spanish as "Hay novedad en el frente...: (Hijastras de Guerra)", in 1935. In the Netherlands it and two sequels were translated as a trilogy: "Gij vrouwen...!", "Vrouwen in nood" and "Vrouwenroeping". In Germany she was compared to Adrienne Thomas, whose book, "Katrin becomes a soldier" was published in 1930.
Evadne Price | Helen Zenna Smith
However, it was also said that the book contains too many extreme characters, which would reduce the believability. In addition, according to Henriëtte Roland Holst bourgeois feminism would distract from true socialism.
Cécile de Jong van Beek en Donk | Critical reception
As her biography at Athelstane Books notes, "She often used her own varied experiences in her books. She used situations from her early life in a large family, her first husband’s addiction and death, and her own illnesses in her novels." De Horne Vaizey's daughter Gwyneth, nicknamed Kit, was the inspiration for the character Kitty in her 1902 work "A Houseful of Girls". The author mentions that Gwyneth really did share lessons with a family of five sisters, who "in many ways were like the book Rendells. Chrystabel is as like as I could make her and they all talk In that funny way, emphasising every second or third word." De Horne Vaizey was an invalid for many years before her death.
Mrs George de Horne Vaizey | Literature
Cecily Bonville is the protagonist in "The Summer Queen", a historical romance which was written by Alice Walworth Graham and published in 1973. The novel is highly fictitious as it takes many liberties with the known facts of Cecily's life, so it is not to be regarded as a biography.
Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington | In fiction
Lucas returned to the 18th century French setting in his short story 'Madame de Malitourn's Cold' (1936) about an estranged aristocratic couple, each unfaithful to the other, but brought together again by a comic misunderstanding. "Cécile" was the first of three novels and one novella Lucas set in the period 1775-1812. Lucas entered the novel for Chatto & Windus's Historical Novel Competition, announced in the press in January 1928, with manuscripts to be submitted by June 1929. The judges were E. M. Forster, George Gordon and R. H. Mottram. That the conscientious Forster was a friend of Lucas's may have counted against "Cécile", which was bracketed for Second Prize, to the puzzlement of some reviewers who thought it finer than the winning novel, Margaret Irwin's "None So Pretty" (1930).
Cécile (novel) | Background
In 1952, she published a book of memoirs. She died two years later.
Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | Introduction
The novel is set in and around the literary circles of the 17th Century Précieuses. The protagonist, a young woman named Madeleine Troqueville, becomes enamored of Mademoiselle de Scudéry, who snubs young Madeleine. It has been suggested that the novel is a roman à clef with Natalie Clifford Barney portrayed as Mademoiselle de Scudéry.
Madeleine de Scudéry | Cultural references
Her second novel, "Monsieur Ka", which is a development of the story of "Anna Karenina", was published in 2018.
Vesna Goldsworthy | Introduction
Orczy did not publish her Pimpernel stories as a strict chronological series, and in fact, the settings of the books in their publication sequence may vary forward or backward in time by months or centuries. While some readers enjoy following the author's development of the Pimpernel character as it was realised, others prefer to read the stories in historical sequence. Taking into account occasional discrepancies in the dates of events (real and fictional) referred to in the stories, the following is an approximate chronological listing of Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel novels and short stories:
The Scarlet Pimpernel | Chronology of novels in the series
Zoraida Córdova is an American author of children's books and romance, best known for her "Brooklyn Brujas" series. She also writes romance as Zoey Castile.
Zoraida Córdova | Introduction
Novels written as Morna MacTaggart Toby Dyke series Virginia and Felix Freer series
Elizabeth Ferrars | Bibliography
Vermalle worked as a BBC documentary producer in London, England. While on maternity leave, she wrote her first novel, "L’avant-dernière chance". The book was published in French in 2009 and won the in 2009 and Prix Chronos in 2011. It has been translated into German, Spanish, Chinese and English (as "George's Grand Tour") and sold over 300,000 copies during its first five years in print. With the success of this novel, Vermalle became a full-time writer, and has written several more books. She and her husband, South African architect Ryan von Ruben, wrote together a novel in English titled "A Flower for the Queen".
Caroline Vermalle | Career
Even though the title intentionally misspells Hansel and Gretel, the plot of Walter Moers' shows only remote parallels to it. After "Ensel und Krete," the "Zamonia" series continued with "Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures", "The City of Dreaming Books", "The Alchemaster's Apprentice", "Prinzessin Insomnia & der alptraumfarbene Nachtmahr (literally, Princess Insomnia and the nightmare-coloured Nightmare)", and "The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books". All of these novels, except Captain Bluebear and Rumo, include prefaces that explains to the reader that the fictional character "Hildegunst von Mythenmetz" is the actual author and that Walter Moers only translated the books from the Zamonian language to German.
Walter Moers | Zamonia series
Cécile meanwhile longs for Paris and for "life". Gabriel, aware that she does not love him and fearing rivals, is reluctant to let her go to the capital. At the château she flirts with her husband's teenage brother, who falls in love with her. Gabriel takes Andrée's advice and gives way. In Paris Cécile takes a lover, the Abbé Maurice d'Ailly, "a pleasant little fox among the vines of Paris". Gaston takes a second mistress, Madame d'Aymery, whose only idea is "to look ravishing and to be ravished". Andrée soon finds out; the discovery kills her love. She learns, too, that Dick Elliot, a young English army officer on convalescent leave, has fallen in love with her: On a visit to Saint-Cyr they become lovers.
Cécile (novel) | Plot summary
Baroness Sylvie von Ziegesar (21 June 1785 – 13 February 1858) was a German noblewoman active in the intellectual circles of Weimar Classicism. She was a friend of the painter Louise Seidler and the intellectual Pauline Gotter, and was also the subject of Goethe's poem "To Sylvie von Ziegesar".
Sylvie von Ziegesar | Introduction
At age 26, Donnelly published her first book: "Servus Opa, sagte ich leise", a story of a small boy telling about the death of his grandfather. The book won the German youth literature prize and the Hans-im-Glück prize in 1978. The book about the accompanying TV series won the Adolf Grimme prize in 1979. Two of her most famous series are "Benjamin Blümchen" ("Benjamin Blossom"), which deal with the adventures of the talking elephant Benjamin and his little friend, the boy Otto, and "Bibi Blocksberg", a series about the adventures of a young cheeky witch. Since 1977, Donnelly has written 65 episodes of "Benjamin Blümchen" and 40 episodes of "Bibi Blocksberg".
Elfie Donnelly | Works
She takes it very badly, but recovers some years later. She enrolls in the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and then writes a book ("Les Trois Favorites", French for "The Three Favorites"), which she sends to the Marquise de Pompadour, a fervent admirer of good prose. She is invited to Versailles, but rejects this meeting and never ends up going. She ends her life in misery.
This is not a story | Summary
They had two daughters, Beatrice and Celia.
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld | Early life and family
Gossip Girl is an American young adult novel series written by Cecily von Ziegesar and published by Little, Brown and Company, a subsidiary of the Hachette Group. The series revolves around the lives and romances of the privileged socialite teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite private school in New York City's Upper East Side. The books primarily focus on best friends Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen, whose experiences are among those chronicled by the eponymous gossip blogger. The novel series is based on the author's experiences at Nightingale-Bamford School and on what she heard from friends.
Gossip Girl (novel series) | Introduction
Cecile Pineda (born September 1932, in Harlem, New York City), is an American author. Her novels have won numerous awards including the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California in 1986 for Face, and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship.
Cecile Pineda | Introduction
The series centers around widow Jet Valkenburg (Sjoukje Hooymaayer) who lives in one house with her mother Frederique Asselberg (Ellen Vogel) and her daughter Klaartje Ellemijn Veldhuijzen van Zanten. The fourth main character is Jet's friend, a gay bookstore owner.
Zonder Ernst | Plot
See the chapter in Miller's (2015) account in "Women of Colonial America: 13 Stories of Courage and Survival in the New World", .
Cecily Jordan Farrar | Further reading
It is unknown why the series never continued past the third book as it was clearly intended to be a much lengthier tale, though the most probable reasons are a lack of consumer interest or a change of direction from either the publisher or the author.
Barbarian Princess (novel) | Trivia
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Christina Oxenberg | Bibliography
It would be quite natural for someone who had registered the novels to have copies.
Baron Omar Rolf von Ehrenfels | Alternative point of view regarding actual authorship of "Ali and Nino"
After her successful war bond campaign, Emilie Blackmore Stapp continued to expand on the story of Isabella, by penning her second, third and fourth books in the series. In 1946, she wrote "Isabella’s Big Secret" which told of the goose's exploits during World War II. In 1947, Stapp wrote "Isabella the Bride" which tells of her marriage to Alexander, The King of Gooseland and in 1948, she followed up with "Isabella, Queen of Gooseland". By 1949, Emilie Stapp had become frustrated with the lack of promotion by her publisher, Charles "Chubb" Howe. On May 4, 1949, she wrote to Howe, saying: “We are sure you realize that books, no matter how delightful we think they are, will not sell themselves without publicity.
Emilie Blackmore Stapp | After World War II
The scripts were written by René Goscinny, Greg, Raymond Macherot and Mittéï. Maréchal terminated the series in 1967 to concentrate more on his job as a French-Spanish teacher in the Royal Atheneum in Verviers (today the Royal Thil Lorrain Atheneum). Only in 1983 did he find the time to create new stories, this time published in "Spirou", where they ran until 1987. In 2001 "Prudence Petitpas" was adapted into an animated TV series.
Maurice Maréchal (comics artist) | Introduction
Christine is a 1917 novel written by Elizabeth von Arnim using the pen-name Alice Cholmondeley. It is the only novel von Arnim wrote under that name. It is written in the style of a compilation of letters from Christine, an English girl studying in Germany, to her mother in Britain. It covers the period May - August 1914. In the letters Christine is a witness to the mood in Germany leading up World War I. The book was initially marketed as non-fiction. Two of von Arnim's daughters, Beatrix and Felicitas, were living in Germany during World War I. Felicitas died in Bremen in 1916, aged 16.
Christine (book) | Introduction
According to editor Kim Iam Michasiw, "Charlotte Dacre's acts of naming both herself and her characters in Zofloya specify her debts to earlier Gothic novels." Victoria di Loredani Signora Montoni
Zofloya | Note on the names
The following year the novel was published in one volume, but by another different publisher.
Mary Cecil Hay | Career
"with Caroline Stevermer" The authors tell these stories from the first-person perspectives of cousins Kate and Cecelia (and, in the third book, two additional characters), who recount their adventures in magic and polite society. These works are unusual in modern fiction in being epistolary novels, written using the style of the letter game.
Patricia Wrede | Cecelia and Kate
Although she was at first reluctant to take the honorary position, she decided to accept it in the name of all of the female Résistance fighters, who are too often forgotten by history.
Cécile Rol-Tanguy | Later life
Erzsébet's staff are also found guilty, but unlike her they are put to death. All of her estate is awarded to the Count Thurzó with the exception of Čachtice, which is given to her children.
The Countess (film) | Plot
The story is set within a framing narrative told by a supporting character from "The Prisoner of Zenda". The frame implies that the events related in both books took place in the late 1870s and early 1880s. This story commences three years after the conclusion of "Zenda", and deals with the same fictional country somewhere in Germanic Middle Europe, the kingdom of Ruritania. Most of the same characters recur: Rudolf Elphberg, the dissolute absolute monarch of Ruritania; Rudolf Rassendyll, the English gentleman who had acted as his political decoy, being his distant cousin and lookalike; Flavia, the princess, now queen; Rupert of Hentzau, the dashing well-born villain; Fritz von Tarlenheim, the loyal courtier; Colonel Sapt, the King's Bodyguard; Lieutenant von Bernenstein, the loyal soldier.
Rupert of Hentzau | Plot summary
The first two books in the series: "Be Careful What You Sniff For" and "Catch that Wave" were published in May. Krulik followed that series with Project Droid, a science fiction series of six books written with her daughter Amanda Burwasser, The Kid From Planet Z (a young chapter book series about a family who crashes down on earth and must follow the instructions of their leader, a talking cat named Zeus), and Princess Pulverizer, a series about a princess who wants to be a knight and must go on a Quest of Kindness to prove that she is up to the task.
Nancy E. Krulik | Books
Marchese di Loredani: husband to Laurina di Cornari and the father of Victoria and Leonardo. He is left by his wife and later dies as a result of a duel with Ardolph (his former wife Laurina's lover). Laurina di Cornari: mother of Leonardo and Victoria, married to the Marchese for 17 years before she leaves him and abandons her family for Count Ardolph. The children blame her for all their misfortune throughout the novel. Victoria di Loredani: a beautiful woman who is very proud and self-sufficient. She is initially described as having an irrepressible spirit and lives a carefree life, with a twinge of a cruel nature.
Zofloya | Characters
Then and there, Halliday was kidnapped. At the villa, Poirot asks to speak to the woman who just came in. She is the Countess Vera Rossakoff. When confronted with Poirot's theory, she phones the kidnappers to send Halliday back to the hotel. When Halliday returns he is too scared to speak. Then a man in a cloak, one of the Big Four, tries to persuade Poirot to stop his investigation. Hastings gets into a small fight with the stranger who then evades Poirot, Hastings, and the hotel manager with a clever disguise.
The Big Four (novel) | Halliday
She did not graduate, absconding after two years with a Hungarian classmate, the economist Nicholas Kaldor.
Cecily Mackworth | Early life
In 2000 the Austrian writer Franzobel published the novel ""Scala Santa oder Josefine Wurznbachers Höhepunkt"" ("Scala Santa or Josefine Wurznbacher's Climax"). The title's similarity to Josephine Mutzenbacher, being only two letters different, is a play on words that is not just coincidence. The book's content is derivative as well, telling the story of the character "Pepi Wurznbacher" and her first sexual experience at age six. The name "Pepi Wurznbacher" is directly taken from the pages of "Josephine Mutzenbacher"; "Pepi" was Josephine Mutzenbacher's nickname in the early chapters. Franzobel has commented that he wanted his novel to be a retelling of the Josephine Mutzenbacher story set in modern day.
Josephine Mutzenbacher | Works influenced by "Josephine Mutzenbacher"
Emilie Auguste Karoline Henriette Friedrich-Friedrich "née" Kühne (November 15, 1829 in Magdeburg – April 7, 1885 in Dresden), known by the pen name Emmy von Rhoden, was a German writer. She is best known for her novel "Der Trotzkopf" (1885), one of the prototypes of the Backfischroman. It is considered an international classic of Children's literature. She is the mother of writer Else Wildhagen who continued the "Trotzkopf"-series with two sequels. The last official volume was written by the unrelated Dutch writer Suze la Chapelle-Roobol and translated into German. The series was a huge commercial success in Germany and translated into at least 11 different languages.
Emmy von Rhoden | Introduction
Both Cecile and Martin “embark on affairs out of kindness.” Cecile cheats on Martin with the next door neighbor, Piotr, a college student who cannot bear to hear the couples "all-consuming" love for each other. Martin unknowingly finds employment with Cecile's mother, Maria from the first tale; they too have an affair. However, the young couple forgives one another. The stories from earlier begin to collide in a seemingly rapid pace. Cecile takes a job working for the businesswoman Tanya/Maria. Later, Tanya/Maria and her ex-husband attempt to entice the young couple into perverse games, but they throw the idea out when they notice the young couple isn't sexy.
Three Lives and Only One Death | Plot