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FEATURES: MARIA BY: MARIA VONN TRAPP ========================= A) CONDITION BOOK: FINE - HARD BOUND B) CONDITION DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD - NOT PRICE CLIPPED [$5.95] C) FIRST EDITION - CREATION HOUSE PUBLISHING 1972 D) NOTE: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARIA FROM THE SOUND OF MUSIC. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHS. BRODART DUST JACKET. 203 PAGES. ================ BOOK GRADING CATEGORIES: FINE VERY GOOD GOOD FAIR POOR ================ Baroness Maria Augusta von Trapp DHS (née Kutschera; 26 January 1905 28 March 1987) was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers.[4][5] She wrote The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, which was published in 1949 and was the inspiration for the 1956 West German film The Trapp Family, which in turn inspired the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music and its 1965 film version. Early life Maria was born on 26 January 1905 to Augusta (née Rainer) and Karl Kutschera.[8] She was delivered on a train heading from her parents' village in Tyrol to a hospital in Vienna, Austria.[6] Her mother died of pneumonia when she was two. Her father, grief-stricken, left Maria with his cousin (her foster mother) who had cared for Maria's half-brother after his mother died. Maria's father then traveled the world, although Maria would visit him upon occasion at his apartment in Vienna. When she was nine, her father died. Her foster mother's son-in-law, Uncle Franz, then became her guardian.[9] Uncle Franz did not treat Maria well and punished her for things she did not do. (He later was found to be mentally ill.) This changed Maria from the shy child she was and, as a teenager, she became the "class cut-up", figuring she may as well have fun if she was going to get in trouble either way. Despite this change, Maria continued to get good grades.[9] After graduating from high school at 15, Maria ran away to stay with a friend with the intent to become a tutor for children staying at nearby hotels. As she looked so young, no one took her seriously. Finally, a hotel manager asked her to be the umpire for a tennis tournament. Although she did not know what an umpire was and had never played tennis, she took the job. From this job, she saved enough money to enter the State Teachers College for Progressive Education in Vienna, where she also received a scholarship.[9] She graduated from there at age 18, in 1923. In 1924, she entered Nonnberg Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Salzburg, as a postulant intending to become a nun.[10] - A thank you from BooksCardsNBikes. Seller Inventory # SHOPIFY779
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Title: MARIA
Publisher: CREATION HOUSE PUBLISHING 1972
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
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