Ettie by Richard Davenport-Hines

Ettie by Richard Davenport-Hines

The life of Lady Desborough - beautiful heiress, aristocratic hostess, unfaithful wife, tragic mother, Edwardian icon

'Richard Davenport-Hines's stirring history of Ettie Fane, a woman of sophistication and beauty seemingly blighted with bad luckThe picture of English aristocratic determination, she remains uncowed to the end.' VOGUE 'as Richard Davenport-Hines demonstrates triumphantly in this superb biography, Ettie Desborough's life is a compelling and moving story of love and loss as well as an important slice of social history, and deserves to be widely read... The book is a joy to read, sparkling and fresh and full of good things. A real delight.' -- Jane Ridley LITERARY REVIEW 'this intelligent and well-written book... provides a rich and satisfying portrait of an age that now seems infinitely remote' THE SPECTATOR 'Davenport-Hines knows his subject well and writes about the period with insight and understanding.' CATHOLIC HERALD

Richard Davenport-Hines was born in 1953. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society, he is a past winner of the Wolfson Prize for History and Biography. He has most recently edited Hugh Trevor-Roper's LETTERS FROM OXFORD for publication in July 2006. He lives in London.

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ISBN 13	9780297851745
ISBN 10	0297851748
Title	Ettie
Author	Richard Davenport-Hines
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2008-08-28
Number of pages	488
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