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4 unusual facts about Rafael Sabatini


Barbara Field

She has written adaptations of such great works of literature as Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol, both by Charles Dickens, and Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini.

Elizabeth Trewinnard

Her husband appears in Rafael Sabatini's The Sea-Hawk as well as in a series of German sea-adventures "Seewölfe, Korsaren der Weltmeere".

Georges Cadoudal

Cadoudal features as a main character in the 1940 Rafael Sabatini novel, Marquis of Carabas (tr. "Master-at-Arms").

Martha-Bryan Allen

She played Lucy Blake in Gypsy Jim, a three-act play by Oscar Hammerstein and Milton Herbert Gropper, Appolonia Lee in Sophie Treadwell’s O, Nightingale, and Myrtle Carey in The Carolinian by Rafael Sabatini and J. Harold Terry.


Rosemary Rogers

She began writing at age eight, and throughout her teens penned many romantic epics in the style of her favorite writers, Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, père, and Rafael Sabatini.


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