Pearl Witherington
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Cecile Pearl Witherington Cornioley,, code names Marie and Pauline, was an agent in France for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. The purpose of
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Charlotte Gray (novel)
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Charlotte Gray is a 1998 novel by Sebastian Faulks. Faulks completes his loose trilogy of books about France with this story of the adventures of a young Scotswoman, Charlotte Gray, who becomes an age
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…Cornioley died on 24 February 2008, aged 93, in the Loire Valley of France. Her story has been cited as the inspiration for the Sebastian Faulks novel Charlotte Gray, which was made into a film of the same name starring Cate Blanchett in 2001, although Faulks denied this in an interview with The Guardian. In the…
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