Sir Walter Scotts famous novel Ivanhoe contains a female heroine named Rebecca. What famous Philadelphian is this heroine supposedly based on?
Rebecca Gratz,(1781-1869), was famous for her beauty, her wisdom and her virtue. Honored for her extensive charitable works, she was most famous for helping found the Hebrew Sunday School Society and for being the model for Rebecca in Scott’s Ivanhoe. Source: Philadelphia Bulletin Almanc, 1976, p.284.
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