Laura Ashley by Anne Sebba

Laura Ashley by Anne Sebba

'It is an extraordinary story' - Sunday Times. The name 'Laura Ashley' is an international byword for the classic English countrywoman living in domestic bliss. But what was Laura Ashley the woman really like, behind the facade of the family-based company that not only used her name, but was moulded on her personal image? Anne Sebba describes Laura the astute business woman with her sure instinct for forecasting trends, her canny feel for colour and fabric and her often brilliant but perfectly simple ideas. She describes Laura the wife and mother: her relationship with Bernard, her sadness at leaving Wales and her family for life on the Continent, her conviction that her place was with her husband. An absorbing biography of this remarkable woman who became one of the leading influences in the twentieth century on British design and marketing. 'This is a moving book. Anne Sebba has written a vivid, true story. She writes with frankness and without frills' - "Sunday Telegraph".

Anna Sebba is a biographer, lecturer, journalist and former Reuters foreign correspondent. She has written a number of books including Jennie Churchill: Winstons' American Mother, The Exiled Collector: William Bankes and the Making of an English Country House, Laura Ashley: A Life by Design, Enid Bagnold and Battling for News: Women Reporters from the Risorgimento to Tiananmen Square. The last three are being reissued in Faber Finds. Anne is currently writing a biography of Wallis Simpson.

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ISBN 13	9780571271399
ISBN 10	0571271391
Title	Laura Ashley
Author	Anne Sebba
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2010-07-15
Number of pages	232
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