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Early life

Marshall was born Rosamond van der Zee Botsford on October 17, 1893,

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, the daughter of Charles and Florence (née Topping Botsford).

Career

Her first published novel in English, ''None But the Brave, A Story of Holland'' (1942), for young people, won the ''

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'' Spring Book Award. Rosamond Marshall's novels for young people were overshadowed by the success of her historical romances for adults. The first of these, ''Kitty'', set the pattern for a continuing series of novels which had sales (in paperback reprints) ranging from a million and a half to three million by 1942. Two of Rosamond's novels were made into motion pictures. The film, '' Kitty'' (1945), starred

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'' (1960) was based on her book ''The Bixby Girls'', and starred

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, and George Hamilton.

Personal life

While in

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, Italy she met and married an Italian, Pierro Antonio Gariazzo on December 26, 1914, and lived for a time in

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. After divorcing Gariazzo, she married Albert Earl Marshall of New York City, USA, on August 10, 1936.

Death

In later life, Rosamond divided her time between

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and her

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, Canada farm. She died on November 13, 1957.

Bibliography

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References

Sources

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