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My Darling Mr Asquith: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Venetia Stanley by Stefan Buczacki (Hardcover, 2016)
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Its subject, the Hon Venetia Stanley was remarkable for what she was, what she did and the people she knew.
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This is the true story of one woman's life set against the backcloth of the great events of the first half of the twentieth century. Its subject, the Hon Venetia Stanley was remarkable for what she was, what she did and the people she knew. So it is a tale that embraces politics, sex, scandal, love and betrayal, the English aristocracy, the Asquiths and the Churchills, but also touches on strange (and some very strange) goings on in the social world of society in the 1920s and 1930s, homosexuality in high places, cross-dressing, gardening, the power of money, derring-do, pioneering aviation, antisemitism and racial prejudice, the Boer war, the Spanish civil war, two world wars, evacuee children, famine in the Soviet Union, the most remarkable match in the history of cricket, the Curragh incident, the Easter uprising, Lady Diana Cooper, Lloyd George, Lawrence of Arabia, Scott of the Antarctic, Ernest Hemingway, the Rothschilds, Beaverbrook, Gandhi, the Amritsar massacre and the Raj, the financial problems of Brazil, a cast of hundreds (many of them slightly odd) and much else besides.Isaiah Berlin said after meeting her '...handsome, smart, awful woman, celebrated society wit I am told, but quite genuinely clever and entertaining, only very awful'. Churchill's daughter, the late Mary Soames who knew her well as a close friend and relative said to me, 'She was rum, you know!'Product Identifiers
PublisherCato & Clarke
ISBN-139780993418600
eBay Product ID (ePID)222269658
Product Key Features
Book TitleMy Darling Mr Asquith: the Extraordinary Life and Times of Venetia Stanley
AuthorStefan Buczacki
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory
Publication Year2016
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages464 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height234 mm
Item Width156 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorStefan Buczacki
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- 10 Nov, 2024
This is a wonderful book in almost prist...
This is a wonderful book in almost pristine condition. I am thrilled to own it.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
