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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 ...
The Heir Chronicles is a young adult fantasy series that was written by Cinda Williams Chima and published through Disney Hyperion. The first book, The Warrior Heir , was published on April 2, 2006, and was named one of YALSA's "Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults" for 2008.
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 ...
In English heraldry an heraldic heiress is a daughter of a deceased man who was entitled to a coat of arms (an armiger) and who carries forward the right to those arms for the benefit of her future male descendants. This carrying forward only applies if she has no brothers or other male relatives alive who would inherit the arms on the death of ...
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.
Barbara Woolworth Hutton (November 14, 1912 – May 11, 1979) was an American debutante, socialite, heiress and philanthropist.She was dubbed the "Poor Little Rich Girl"—first when she was given a lavish and expensive debutante ball in 1930 amid the Great Depression and later due to a notoriously troubled private life.
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 ...
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