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"The Bohemian Girl" is a short story by Willa Cather. It was written when Cather was living in Cherry Valley, New York , with Isabelle McClung whilst Alexander's Bridge was being serialised in McClure's . [ 1 ]
The book begins in 1539, after the death of King Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour.Henry is looking for a new wife and chooses Anne of Cleves, daughter of John III, Duke of Cleves, whom he has only seen from portraits sent to him by her brother, William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg.
Franz Viktor Werfel (German: [fʁant͡s ˈvɛʁfl̩] ⓘ; 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II.
My Ántonia (/ ˈ æ n t ə n i ə / AN-tə-nee-ə) is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, which is considered one of her best works.. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the ...
Ancient Bohemian legends (Czech: Staré pověsti české) is a book by Alois Jirásek written in 1894. It describes events from Czech history based on folk literature and some historical facts. The model was based on Chronicle of Hájek , Cosmas Chronicle of Bohemia and Chronicle of Dalimil , other old Czech chronicles and many other sources ...
The Bohemian Girl is an English language Romantic opera composed by Michael William Balfe with a libretto by Alfred Bunn. The plot is loosely based on a Miguel de Cervantes ' tale, La gitanilla . The best-known aria from the piece is " I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls " in which the main character, Arline, describes her vague memories of her ...
Helena Sobková, a writer of popular-history books about Němcová, believes that Němcová may actually have been the niece of Wilhelmine. In 1816 an illegitimate daughter was born to Wilhelmine's younger sister, Dorothée de Talleyrand-Périgord , and Count Karl Johann of Clam-Martinic (1792–1840) in Bourbon-l'Archambault (a French spa).
Rosamund Harwell – Daughter of a wealthy man, reduced to humiliating poverty and employment as a mannequin after her father's imprisonment for fraud. Rescued by her marriage to Harwell two years previously – deeply in love, but given to friendly relations with other men and bored because she has little to occupy her days.