326U: A Main Character Named Corelei

I have been searching for this book for 20 or 30 years, to no avail.  I was born in 1936, and my mother named me after the main character in a book – Corelei.  Unfortunately, I have no other information on this book.  If anybody has any ideas on what book this might be, it would be greatly appreciated!

5 thoughts on “326U: A Main Character Named Corelei

  1. Amanda

    Was it a children’s book, do you know? There’s a book called The Tale of Corally Crothers by Romney Gay, about a girl with “no sisters or brothers” who goes looking for a friend. She ends up jumping out of the book to be the reader’s friend. It was published in 1932. While the spelling is a different, the sound is the same, so I thought given the date and similar name it might be a possibility.

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  2. Corelei Codak

    I have NO idea what the story was about. All I know my Mom read the book and like it and that is how I got my name – Corelei

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  3. Ann

    Perhaps a bit of a long-shot, but could it be Charlotte Brame’s ‘Coralie’, a romantic novel published at the beginning of the 20th century, told in the first person by the hero Edgar, who falls in love with a girl called Coralie? The book is available online on Gutenberg.

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