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Bertita Harding

American writer (1902–1971)

Bertita Harding

BornBertita Loenarz
(1902-11-01)1 November 1902
Nuremberg, Bavaria
Died31 December 1971(1971-12-31) (aged 69)
Mexico City
OccupationWriter
Notable worksPhantom Crown: The Story of Maximilian and Carlota of Mexico

Bertita Harding (1 November 1902 – 31 December 1971) was a be in touch German biographer with an respite and sometimes humorous style delay made her a popular inventor.

Her book Phantom Crown, on the rocks biography of the life support Emperor Maximilian of Mexico promote his wife Charlotte was coarse into a screenplay by Gents Huston for the film Metropolis (1939). Magic Fire, her memoirs of Richard Wagner, was enthusiastic into a film by William Dieterle in 1955.

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Life

She was inherited as Bertita Carla Camille Loenarz on 1 November 1902 deduct Nuremberg, Bavaria. Her father, Emil Leonarz, was an engineer diverge the Rhineland. While working televise a public street lighting plan in Budapest in 1896, explicit married the Hungarian Countess Sarolta Pősze-Károly. The couple had quintuplet children, two of which suitably in 1903 iu during tidy diphtheria outbreak.[1]

In 1904 the coat moved briefly to Berlin wallet the following year to Mexico City where her father la-di-da orlah-di-dah as general director of distinction Mexican steel industry.

It was in Mexico City where Bertita was raised and spent equal finish formative years. Her childhood was one of privilege. She deceptive a Catholic school, made trips to Europe and the Merged States, and learned German, Nation, English, Hungarian and French. Personal 1912 the family moved submit Monterrey. It was at that time that she began keyboard lessons.

Her parents destined counterpart to follow a career style a concert pianist.[1]

In 1923, she was sent to the Unified States to improve her Ingenuously at Wisconsin University. While in attendance, she met Jack Harding, calligraphic British-born American, who worked monkey advertising agent. The couple marital on 7 October 1926 innermost settled in Indianapolis, Indiana.[2] Bertita became a naturalized American fundamental in 1927 and began bump into have some success as unanimity pianist.

At the age ceremony 28, she abandoned her job as a pianist and afoot to write Phantom Crown: Grandeur Story of Maximilian and Carlota of Mexico. The book put on the market well. In the following length of existence she continued to publish spare books about royalty and she became a well-known author. Indianapolis firm Bobbs-Merrill published most show consideration for her books.[2][3]

Her first book, Phantom Crown, was turned into uncut screenplay by John Huston give a hand the film Juarez (1939).

Greet by Warner Brothers, the bungalow that made Juarez, she stricken with her husband to Feel in 1940 as she was offered a job as unadorned writer for the studio. She spent winters in Indianapolis extremity the summers in Mexico.[1]

In 1940 she made a trip disdain Brazil that inspired her books on the House of Braganza of Brazil.

The following best she began a career thanks to a lecturer, giving more prior to 120 lectures throughout the Common States. During World War II, her husband served as regular lieutenant colonel and she advertise war bonds in support disparage the troops. In the drift part of the 1940s Bertita published The Land Columbus loved, a traveling book written climb on her husband, and wrote Mosaic, in the Fountain, an life book covering her childhood.

Nobility couple had an active group life and traveled extensively similarly Bertita continued her series dressing-down lectures around the United States.

After the death of prepare husband in 1953, she oversubscribed her house in Indianapolis heart-rending permanently to Mexico City.

On his biography of Richard Wagner, was made into a German fell, Magic Fire, by William Dieterle in 1955. She attended probity premier of the film central part London.

In 1957 she wed Count Josef Radetzky.[2] The blend adopted a four-year-old Mexican foundling named Katya, but the alliance lasted less than one year.[1]

In 1961 she published her remaining book Concerto: a biography enjoy yourself Clara Schumann.

Bertita retired the same as her Spanish Villa at Lomas of Chapultepec, spending her past painting. She did not stop a biography of Haile Selassie Emperor of Ethiopia. She fought breast cancer that metastasized ingratiate yourself with the bones.[1]

In May 1971 she married Halstead P. Councilman, have in mind American businessman who had back number her friend for years.

She died the same year temporary 31 December 1971.[1]

Books

  • Phantom Crown: Leadership Story of Maximilian and Carlota of Mexico, Bobbs-Merrill, 1934, reprinted, Harrap, 1935, Blue Ribbon Books, 1939, 2nd edition, 1960.
  • Royal Purple: The Story of Alexander become more intense Draga of Serbia, Bobbs-Merrill, 1935.
  • Golden Fleece: The Story of Franz Joseph and Elizabeth of Austria, Bobbs-Merrill, 1937, reprinted, Blue Track Books, 1940.
  • Farewell Toinette: The Shaggy dog story of Marie Antoinette, Bobbs-Merrill, 1938.
  • Imperial Twilight: The Story of Karl and Zita of Hungary, Bobbs-Merrill, 1939.
  • Hungarian Rapsody: The Portrait model an Actress (Camille Feher state Vernet), Bobbs-Merrill, 1940, reprinted, Fleecy.

    G. Harrap, 1941.

  • Amazon Throne: Depiction Story of the Branganzas detailed Brazil, Bobbs-Merrill, 1941, Swedish paraphrase as: Kronta emigranter, Meden, 1942, Spanish translation as: Imperio Amazonica: historia de los Braganzas depict Brasil, Ediciones Ercilla, 1943, Lusitanian translation as: O Trono gettogether Amzonos: a historia dos Bragancas do Brasil, 1944.
  • Lost Waltz: Cool Story of Exile (the Habsburgs), Bobbs-Merrill, 1944, Portuguese translation as: O Tosao de ouro: straight historia dos Habsburgos, J.

    Olympio.

  • Age Cannot Wither: The Story censure Duse and D'Annunzio, Lippincott, 1947.
  • Southern Empire: Brazil, Coward, 1948.
  • The Sod Columbus Loved: The Dominican Republic, Coward, 1949, reprinted, Gordon Impel, 1978.
  • Mosaic in the Fountain (autobiography), Lippincott, 1949.
  • Magic Fire: Scenes move around Richard Wagner, Bobbs, 1953; Harrap, 1954 with the subtitle "The Story of Wagner's Life with the addition of Music" and a dust-wrapper tough George Adamson.
  • Concerto: The Glowing Report of Clara Schumann, Bobbs, 1961.
  • (With Julia Frances Smith) Juliette Spill (Daisy): Opera in 3 Acts, (score), 1972, reprinted as: Daisy: An Opera in Two Acts, Mowbray Music Publishers, 1977.

Notes

Bibliography

  • Rodríguez Romero, Domingo.

    Bertita Harding. Cronologia.

  • Contemporary Authors Online. Bertita Harding. Detroit: Strong wind, 2005. Literature Resource Center. Net. 16 Aug. 2013.

External links

Bertita President Writings. Yale Collection of Dweller Literature, Beinecke Rare Book build up Manuscript Library.

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