My Darling Winston

My Darling Winston
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 422
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ISBN-10 : 9781681779485
ISBN-13 : 168177948X
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis My Darling Winston by : David Lough

My Darling Winston is an edited collection of the personal letters between Winston Churchill and his mother, Jenny Jerome, between 1881—when Churchill was just six—and 1921, the year of Jenny’s death. Many of these intimate letters— between two gifted writers—are published here for the first time, and the exchange of letters between mother and son has never before been published as a correspondence. A significant addition to the Churchill canon, My Darling Winston traces Churchill’s emotional, intellectual, and political development as confided to his primary mentor, his mother. As well as providing a basic narrative of Jenny’s and Winston Churchill’s lives over a forty-year period, My Darling Winston tells the story of a changing mother-son relationship, characterised at the outset by Churchill’s emotional and practical dependence on his mother, but which is dramatically reversed as her life begins to disintegrate tragically towards its end.

Titled Americans, 1890

Titled Americans, 1890
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 443
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ISBN-10 : 9781783660056
ISBN-13 : 1783660058
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Titled Americans, 1890 by : Chauncey M Depew

Perfect for all Downton Abbey fans, this is the 1890 book behind the marriage of Lord and Lady Grantham. In an age when securing a prudent match was all-important for both sexes, Titled Americans offered a glance guide to recent high society marriages and a list of eligible bachelors who were still on the lookout for love. It explores and explains the trend for well-heeled European gents selecting American wives, discusses the relative merits of attaching oneself to an American or an English girl (”the American girl comes along, prettier than her English sister, dazzling and audacious, and she is a revelation to the Englishman”), and examines in detail the various titled families of Europe. Included to “arouse the ambition of the American girl”, there is a list of unmarried English Peers, making this a fantastic glimpse of the stately homes, relative fortunes and social lives of the glamorous English and American upper-classes at the turn of the century.

From Winston with Love and Kisses

From Winston with Love and Kisses
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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9781623490782
ISBN-13 : 1623490782
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis From Winston with Love and Kisses by : Celia Sandys

A delightful and illuminating journey through the early years of Winston Churchill, From Winston with Love and Kisses: The Young Churchill weaves together strands of Churchill’s early writing, mature recollections and reflections on childhood, and the comments of the author, Churchill’s granddaughter. Together with a rich store of images and ephemera from the family archives, this book provides an enthralling composite view of the lonely and sickly little boy who survived on sheer tenacity to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century. Lavishly illustrated throughout and reproducing in facsimile many of the young Winston’s letters and early artistic efforts, this captivating book brings us an intimate portrait of Churchill’s youth.

Lily, Duchess of Marlborough (1854-1909)

Lily, Duchess of Marlborough (1854-1909)
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Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 1457507765
ISBN-13 : 9781457507762
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Lily, Duchess of Marlborough (1854-1909) by : Sally E. Svenson

Lily Price Hamersley became, with her 1888 marriage to the eighth Duke of Marlborough, the highest-ranking American peeress in England and the first American duchess in fifty years. The duke was one of three distinguished, but, alas, short-lived husbands of this beauty from Troy, New York. Her first husband, Louis Hamersley, was a patrician New Yorker who left her an affluent widow at the age of twenty-eight. Her second was the brilliant but "wicked," divorced, and socially outcast Duke of Marlborough--brother-in-law to Jennie Churchill, uncle to Winston, and father to the first husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt. Lily's third choice was an ebullient Anglo-Irish lord, William de la Poer Beresford, a horseracing enthusiast whose popularity has been likened to that of modern film stars. In the course of a surprising life, Lily knew triumph and heartbreak while proving herself a woman of self-confidence, optimism, and remarkable resilience. Lily's "three marriages, her confident ease in moving into impossibly complicated and exalted social realms, and her decades of dealing with legal complexities related to wills, estates, and trusts make her story read like a newly discovered Edith Wharton novel. The history of the fairytale years when Lily became the Duchess of Marlborough and a dear friend of Winston Churchill is immensely readable and fascinating." Eric Homberger, emeritus professor of American Studies, University of East Anglia, and author of Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Social Power in a Gilded Age "This entrancing portrait of a conventional American girl who made three extraordinary marriages draws on society papers and women's magazines as well as archives, court records and private papers to create a lively and vivid picture of social elites on both sides of the Atlantic during the late nineteenth century." Sally Mitchell, author of Daily Life in Victorian England and The New Girl: Girls' Culture in England, 1880-1915

Blacks in the Adirondacks

Blacks in the Adirondacks
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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Total Pages : 384
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780815654216
ISBN-13 : 0815654219
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Blacks in the Adirondacks by : Sally E. Svenson

Blacks in the Adirondacks: A History tells the story of the many African Americans who settled in or passed through this rural, mountainous region of northeastern New York State. In the area for a variety of reasons, some were lifetime residents, while others were there for a few years or months—as summer employees, tuberculosis patients, or in connection with full- or part-time occupations in railroading, the performing arts, and baseball. From blacks who settled on land gifted to them by Gerrit Smith, a prosperous landowner and fervent abolitionist, to those who worked as waiters in resort hotels, Svenson chronicles their rich and varied experiences, with an emphasis on the 100 years between 1850 and 1950. Many experienced racism and isolation in their separation from larger black populations; some found a sense of community in the scattered black settlements of the region. In this first definitive history, Svenson gives voice to the many blacks who spent time in the Adirondacks and sheds light on their challenges and successes in this remote region.

The Churchills: In Love and War

The Churchills: In Love and War
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 640
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ISBN-10 : 9780393342253
ISBN-13 : 0393342255
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The Churchills: In Love and War by : Mary S. Lovell

Lovell presents the epic story of one of England's greatest families, focusing on the towering figure of Winston Churchill.

Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874-1900

Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874-1900
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 698
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105000119797
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874-1900 by : Randolph Spencer Churchill