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Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power - Softcover

Renton, Claudia

 
9780007544912: Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
Softcover
ISBN 10: 000754491X ISBN 13: 9780007544912
Verlag: William Collins, 2014

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Winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2014

A rich historical biography of ‘those wild Wyndhams’ – three cultured aristocratic sisters born into great privilege in late Victorian Britain.

Mary, Madeline and Pamela – the three beautiful Wyndham sisters – were born into immense wealth. Cultured bohemian daughters of a maverick politician and an artistic mother, they became entangled with the scandalous and intellectual ‘Souls’ set, as well as the most celebrated figures of the day, including Oscar Wilde, Marie Stopes and the iconoclastic poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, lover both of Mary and her mother before her. Two sisters were intimate with great statesmen – Prime Minister Arthur Balfour and the Liberal politician Edward Grey – and only one of them would marry happily.

This first ever biography of the sisters captures their dramatic lives from romantic beginnings through the passions and disappointments of womanhood to the tragedy and devastation of the First World War that brought a definitive end to their sons, their era and way of life.

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Claudia Renton took a Double First at Oxford and was awarded the Gibbs Book Prize for Modern History. Now a practising barrister, she has also enjoyed a career as an actress, appearing with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the National Theatre. She is co-author of Heroes with Simon Sebag Montefiore and was identified as one of the Guardian’s ‘new history girls’ and Vogue’s 'Bright Stars' of the next decade. She lives in London.

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Verlag
William Collins
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
000754491X
ISBN 13 
9780007544912
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Anzahl der Seiten
512
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