Madeline preceded her by 16 years

• Woman's name containing another
• Fictitious Plaza resident
• Hinton's middle name
• 'The River' actress Mumford
• Girl’s name
• Plaza Hotel character
• Plaza Hotel girl of kid-lit
• Six-year-old heroine at the Plaza Hotel
• ___ Midgen, fellow student of Harry Potter

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Eloise is a series of children's books written in the 1950s by Kay Thompson (1909–1998) and illustrated by Hilary Knight (b. 1926). Thompson and Knight followed up Eloise (1955) with four sequels. Eloise is a girl who lives in the "room on the tippy-top ...