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Ontwarringsbericht:

(eng) Ida Cook also writes as Mary Burchell and James Keene (with Will Cook).

Fotografie: Ida Cook (aka Mary Burchell)

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Werken van Mary Burchell

The Girl in the Blue Dress (1958) 47 exemplaren
A Song Begins (1965) 41 exemplaren
Under the Stars of Paris (1954) 36 exemplaren
Damaged Angel = The Broken Wing (1966) 28 exemplaren
Nightingales (1980) 27 exemplaren
When Love Is Blind (1967) 27 exemplaren
Unbidden Melody (1973) 26 exemplaren
The Curtain Rises (1969) 25 exemplaren
Remembered Serenade (1975) 25 exemplaren
Song Cycle (1974) 24 exemplaren
Child of Music (1971) 23 exemplaren
Except My Love (1937) 22 exemplaren
Music of the Heart (1972) 21 exemplaren
Yours with Love (1940) 21 exemplaren
Masquerade with Music (1982) 20 exemplaren
On Wings of Song (1985) 19 exemplaren
Accompanied by His Wife (1941) 19 exemplaren
Call and I'll Come (1955) 18 exemplaren
Little Sister (1939) 18 exemplaren
Just a Nice Girl (1941) 18 exemplaren
Paris and My Love (1960) 18 exemplaren
Honey (1959) 16 exemplaren
But Not for Me (1938) 16 exemplaren
Pay Me Tomorrow (1940) 16 exemplaren
Elusive Harmony (1976) 15 exemplaren
Nobody Asked Me (1937) 15 exemplaren
Dare I Be Happy? (1943) 15 exemplaren
On the Air (1956) 14 exemplaren
For Ever and Ever (1956) 14 exemplaren
Strangers May Marry (1941) 13 exemplaren
Hospital Corridors (1958) 13 exemplaren
The Brave in Heart (1948) 13 exemplaren
Love Made the Choice (1942) 12 exemplaren
A Letter for Don (1950) 12 exemplaren
Such Is Love (1939) 12 exemplaren
It's Rumoured in the Village (1957) 11 exemplaren
One Man's Heart (1955) 11 exemplaren
Take Me with You (1944) 11 exemplaren
To Journey Together (1956) 11 exemplaren
Stolen Heart (1952) 11 exemplaren
Inherit My Heart (1962) 11 exemplaren
Wife by Arrangement (1946) 10 exemplaren
Then Come Kiss Me (1948) 10 exemplaren
With All My Worldy Goods (1938) 10 exemplaren
Cinderella After Midnight (1959) 10 exemplaren
My Sister Celia (1961) 10 exemplaren
Liefde - spanning (1944) 10 exemplaren
Wife to Christopher (1936) 10 exemplaren
Nurse Marika, Loyal in All (1957) 10 exemplaren
Sweet Adventure (1952) 10 exemplaren
Reluctant Relation (1961) 9 exemplaren
House of Conflict (1962) 9 exemplaren
A Home for Joy (1969) 9 exemplaren
Ward of Lucifer (1947) 9 exemplaren
Yet Love Remains (1938) 9 exemplaren
Do Not Go, My Love (1964) 8 exemplaren
Though Worlds Apart (1967) 8 exemplaren
Missing from Home (1968) 8 exemplaren
Dear Trustee (1958) 8 exemplaren
When Love's Beginning (1954) 8 exemplaren
Loving Is Giving (1956) 8 exemplaren
Over the Blue Mountains (1952) 8 exemplaren
The Heart Cannot Forget (1953) 8 exemplaren
Love Is My Reason (1957) 8 exemplaren
Tell Me My Fortune (1951) 8 exemplaren
Under Joint Management (1947) 8 exemplaren
The Other Linding Girl (1966) 8 exemplaren
Love Him or Leave Him (1950) 8 exemplaren
And Falsely Pledge My Love (1957) 7 exemplaren
Always Yours (1941) 7 exemplaren
Yours to Command (1955) 7 exemplaren
bevochten geluk (1960) 6 exemplaren
Choose Which You Will (1949) 6 exemplaren
Mine for a Day (1951) 6 exemplaren
The Marshall Family (1967) 6 exemplaren
The Strange Quest of Nurse Anne (1964) 5 exemplaren
The Wedding Dress (1961) 5 exemplaren
One of the Family (1939) 5 exemplaren
Sweet Meadows (1963) 5 exemplaren
Dear Sir (1958) 5 exemplaren
De nieuwe secretaresse (1953) 5 exemplaren
Choose the One You'll Marry (1960) 5 exemplaren
Meant for Each Other (1945) 4 exemplaren
If This Were All (1949) 4 exemplaren
Not Without You (1947) 4 exemplaren
Here I Belong (1951) 4 exemplaren
Away Went Love (1945) 4 exemplaren
Girl With a Challenge (1965) 4 exemplaren
The Rosewood Box (1970) 4 exemplaren
Corner House (1960) 3 exemplaren
Find Out the Way (1946) 3 exemplaren
After Office Hours (1939) 3 exemplaren
Her Sister's Children (1965) 3 exemplaren
Joanna at the Grange (1957) 3 exemplaren
Dangerous Loving (1963) 2 exemplaren
I'll Go with You (1940) 2 exemplaren
First Love-Last Love (1946) 2 exemplaren
No Real Relation (1953) 2 exemplaren
Thine is My Heart (1942) 2 exemplaren
At First Sight (1950) 2 exemplaren
I Will Love You Still (1949) 2 exemplaren
The Heart Must Choose (1953) 2 exemplaren
Second Marriage (1971) 2 exemplaren
The Prettiest Girl (1955) 1 exemplaar
Turneul (1998) 1 exemplaar
Thanks to Elizabeth (1944) 1 exemplaar
My Old Love Came (1943) 1 exemplaar
If You Care (1948) 1 exemplaar
Wish on the Moon (1949) 1 exemplaar
The Nostalgia Collection, Box Set (3-in-1) (1986) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
Pension op stelten 1 exemplaar

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Algemene kennis

Gangbare naam
Burchell, Mary
Officiële naam
Cook, Ida
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Burchell, Mary (pen name)
Keene, James (pen name)
Geboortedatum
1904-08-24
Overlijdensdatum
1986-12-22
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
UK
Geboorteplaats
Sunderland, Durham, England, UK
Plaats van overlijden
London, England, UK
Woonplaatsen
Northumberland, England, UK
London, England, UK
Opleiding
Duchess' School, Alnwick
Beroepen
romance novelist
journalist
civil servant
autobiographer
Holocaust rescuer
Relaties
Krauss, Clemens (friend)
Organisaties
Romantic Novelists' Association (president)
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Righteous among the Nations
Blue Plaque
Korte biografie
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.
Ontwarringsbericht
Ida Cook also writes as Mary Burchell and James Keene (with Will Cook).

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LisaBergin | 1 andere bespreking | Apr 12, 2023 |
Awww, so cute and a lovely big happy ending, even though I wanted to berate the girl halfway through for clinging so relentlessly to the wrong guy.
Also, I take back what I said from the previous book about Florian being a bit of a jerk. He's positively mellow in this one, five years later.

Plot summary: Marianne comes to Paris, longing for a chance to capture the man she's been in love with for years who has also recently traveled to the city. Meanwhile, she gets a job in Florian's boutique and also meets Roger (the rejected suitor of the previous book). Fashion hijinks ensue. Marianne pursues her crush, her crush pursues a model from the fashion salon, and good old Roger provides a shoulder to cry on.
What stands out to me, besides the cutesy, delicious, conclusion of the story, is the little universe that Mary Burchell manages to create at this fashion salon. It's quite endearing and lively.
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Alishadt | 1 andere bespreking | Feb 25, 2023 |
Hmm.
This book will most appeal to you if you have a toleration for the Mr. Rochesters and M. Paul Emanuels of the world of fiction.
In other words, a romantic interest who is a bit of a jerk. Indeed, Charlotte Bronte would have been all over this plot.
There's no getting away from it. There were multiple times in this book where I sighed a little bit and thought, "Ah. So we're doing this, are we?"
The autocratic man who's rather too old for the heroine. Who keeps her guessing the whole time as to whether he dislikes her or is just indifferent (hint: it's neither).
What can I say? Mary Burchell handled it with skill and thrill.

Plot summary: Anthea is on her own in Paris, jilted by her fiancé, and with dwindling finances. A chance meeting gets her an opportunity to model at a luxurious fashion show, where she meets Florian, a prestigious dress designer. The rest is moments of catty girl drama, enigmatic conversations with her employer, dinner dates with a "just a friend" who wants to be more, and very Jane-Eyre-like amounts of concealed longing for the inscrutable employer.

If it sounds like your thing, it probably is. Yes, I gave it 5 stars. Yes, even though I wouldn’t be on board with it in real life, I really liked it and was totally invested by the end.
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Alishadt | 2 andere besprekingen | Feb 25, 2023 |
Oh dear.
How do I rate this book? It's effective, I'll give it that. But it's also a super toxic relationship, and it pulls out some cheap narrative tricks to get the reader to root for this couple.
Sigh.
The first Mary Burchell book I read, Under the Stars of Paris, also had a fairly alpha love interest, but, for me, he didn't cross any unforgivable lines. And the sequel to that one actually featured a pretty nice guy. So far, so good.
Then I tried this first book in the Warrender series. And, oof, it's too much. Too much bullying, too much arrogance. So I'm giving it 3 stars in deference to the author's ability to weave a tight and very lively plot, because obviously it kept me reading, but... I don't really recommend it.
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Werken
138
Leden
1,408
Populariteit
#18,249
Waardering
½ 3.3
Besprekingen
62
ISBNs
227
Talen
4
Favoriet
3

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