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birth in a refuge for the indigent. Resolved that their child should have a good life, she spent nights with or became mistress of various rich men but would never marry because her heart belonged always to the writer. Out one night with a current lover, she saw the writer in a night club and went home with him instead. To him, she was just an agreeable companion for that night, as he again did not recognise her. In the
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when her mother remarried. At age 18 she returned to Vienna, took a job and tried to meet the writer again. He did not recognise her and, without revealing her name, she succeeded in spending three nights with him before he disappeared on a long holiday. Pregnant, she lost her job and had to give
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from one of many holidays, finds a long letter from an unknown woman (Fräulein). As a teenager the woman had lived with her poor widowed mother in the same building and had fallen totally in love with both the opulent cultured lifestyle of her neighbour and the handsome charming man himself. Her
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passion for the writer was not lessened by the flow of attractive women spending the night with him, nor when she had to leave Vienna and moved to
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and entitled "Visit From An Unknown Woman," premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, London.
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Comox Valley Record, Two renowned quartets to share the stage at Fanny Bay Hall
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Iverson, Gunnar; Soderbergh Widding, Astrid; Soila, Tytti (2005-07-19).
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as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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in a maternity ward. The film survives only in fragmentary form.
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Larcati, Arturo; Renoldner, Klemens; Wörgötter, Martina (2018).
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in 1924; by Jill Sutcliffe, as part of a collection entitled
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Another unofficial adaptation came out in 1943, the Finnish
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Zweig, Stefan; Fowles, John; Sutcliffe, Jill (1983).
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In June 2024 a new English language play, adapted by
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A rich and well-known writer (R.), returning home to
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Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948 film)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (2004 film)

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1918 flu pandemic
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Chapman and Hall
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Anthea Bell
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Béla Balázs
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anesthesia
Only Yesterday
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