Télécharger le livre :  Five Love Affairs and a Friendship
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'Racily enjoyable' Daily Telegraph'De Courcy brilliantly recreates the heady spirit of Cunard's Paris . . . You feel she really might have been there' Laura Freeman, The TimesDazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2022-04-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Chanel's Riviera
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'Sex, disappointment and scandal from some of the 20th century's biggest icons all set against an impossibly luxurious and elegant French backdrop . . . You'll come away both better informed and utterly transported' Stylist'Tales of glamour, decadence and survival . . ....

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2019-06-13

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Télécharger le livre :  The Husband Hunters
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Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2017-06-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Margot at War
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Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last four years at...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2014-11-06

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Télécharger le livre :  The Viceroy's Daughters
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The lives of the three daughters of Lord Curzon: glamorous, rich, independent and wilful.Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) and Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 and probably the grandest and most self-confident...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2012-12-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Debs at War
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An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the WarPre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2012-12-20
Collection : WOMEN IN HISTORY
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Télécharger le livre :  1939: The Last Season
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A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War.The Season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The young debutante daughters of the upper classes were presented to the King and Queen to mark...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2012-12-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Society's Queen
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From the author of the critically acclaimed THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS, the story of a glittering aristocrat who was also at the heart of political society in the interwar years.At the age of twenty-one, Edith Chaplin married one of the most eligible bachelors of the day,...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2012-12-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Snowdon
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'The most sensational book on the Royal Family in recent times' Sunday Telegraph'Offers a fascinating insight into not just his life but the social mores of the day' Evening StandardHow did a photographer who was a relentless playboy, an unashamed womaniser and a...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2012-12-20

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Télécharger le livre :  The Fishing Fleet
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The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands.From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2012-07-12

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