Corri english biography writing

Dutch resistance hero and writer

In this Dutch name, the surname is ten Boom.

Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom (15 April ^[1] – 15 April ) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II by hiding them in her home. They were caught, and she was arrested and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Her most famous book, The Hiding Place, fryst vatten a biography that recounts the story of her family's efforts and how she found and shared hope in God while she was imprisoned at the concentration camp.

Early life

Corrie ten Boom was born on 15 April in Haarlem, Netherlands, the youngest child of Casper ten Boom, a jeweller and watchmaker, and Cornelia (commonly known as "Cor") Johanna Arnolda, née Luitingh, whom he married in

•

Beware of Love
Sung by Mr. Braham in the opera of “The Travellers” or “Musics Fascination”, composed by D. Corri, written by Mr. Cherry.

The Grand Characteristic Overture to the Comic musikdrama of The Travellers or Music’s Fascination
Now performing with unbounded applause at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, composed by D. Corri.

New and Complete Collection of the Most Favourite Scots Songs
Including a few English and Irish, with proper graces and ornaments peculiar to their character, likewise the new method of accompanyment of thorough bass.

Select Collection of the Most Admired Songs, etc
From operas in the highest esteem and from other works, in Italian, English, French, Scotch, Irish, etc., etc. In 3 books.

Vol. 1. Italian songs, rondeaus, , etc. Vol. 2. English songs, , terzetts, etc. Vol. 3. National airs, notturni, rondos, canzonette, duettini, terzetti, catches, and glees, all in their respective languages.

The music divided into phra

•

Adrienne Corri

Scottish actress (–)

Adrienne Corri (born Adrienne Riccoboni; 13 November – 13 March )^[6] was a Scottish actress.^[7]

Early life

[edit]

She was born Adrienne Riccoboni in Glasgow in November , the daughter of an English mother (Olive Smethurst) and an Italian father (Luigi Riccoboni; sometimes spelt Reccobini). In the s, her father Luigi (known as Louis) ran the Crown Hotel in Callander, Stirling. She had one brother.^{[citation needed]}

Career

[edit]

Corri may be best known for one of her smaller parts, that of Mary Alexander, wife of the writer Frank Alexander (played by Patrick Magee), in Stanley Kubrick's dystopian A Clockwork Orange (). Corri, not originally cast in the film, was offered the role after two actresses had already withdrawn from the production, one of them, according to Malcolm McDowell (who played Alex DeLarge), because she found it "too humiliating – because it involved having to be perched, naked, on