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Cecilia, subtitled (and alternatively titled) Memoirs of an Heiress, is the second novel by English author Frances Burney, set in 1779 and published in 1782. The novel, about the trials and tribulations of a young upper-class woman who must negotiate London society for the first time and who falls in love with a social superior, belongs to the ...
In the books she is a young woman, aged 22 in the first novel, of marked beauty and competence. In the film, though similarly competent to her book equivalent, she is an elderly woman, and a widow. Gloriant, Duke of Bruuyswijc Gloriant: The protagonist of one of the four medieval Dutch dramas contained in the Van Hulthem Manuscript. [9] Dorian ...
Washington Square is a novel written in 1880 by Henry James about a father's attempts to thwart a romance between his naïve daughter and the man he believes wishes to marry her for her money. The novel was adapted into a play, The Heiress, which in turn became an Academy Award-winning film starring Olivia de Havilland in the title role.
Heiress, a 1988 Chinese TV series aired by SBC Channel 8 "Chapter 11: The Heiress", a 2020 episode of The Mandalorian; The Heiress, a 1949 film based on the play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz "The Heiress", episode of the 1959 TV series Interpol Calling; The Heiress, a 1786 play by John Burgoyne
If an heraldic heiress marries an armiger, then, rather than impaling her arms on the sinister side of his as would be usual in the marriage of a woman whose father bore arms, she instead displays her father's arms on a small shield over the centre of his shield – an "escutcheon of pretence" – for as long as there is no blood male in her extended family.
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Mrs Osmond is a novel by the Irish author John Banville, published in 2017. It is based on the 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady by the American-British author Henry James . The Henry James novel describes how a young American heiress Isabel Archer marries Gilbert Osmond, a widower.
Montescue, Katerina (Kat): Heiress to the bankrupt House Montescue. She worked as a smuggler. Montescue, Ludovico: Current leader of House Montescue, having wasted most of his money in a pathetic effort to destroy the Valdostas. Sforza, Carlo: A notorious and skilled condottiere known as The Wolf of the North. He is a father of Benito Valdosta ...