Angel Dorothy by Jane Brown
Born in Washington, D.C., into the influential Whitney family, heiress Dorothy Elmhirst was a national darling: bells rang, flags flew and the American Navy's new fast tugboat was named Dorothy. Orphaned at 17, she started giving away her inheritance at 18 and buried herself in social and political work. In 1925 she married Leonard Elmhirst, an Englishman who shared her liberal beliefs; they moved to England to start what would become Dartington Hall--a progressive school that transformed into a magnet for artists, architects, writers, philosophers and musicians. It was there that the Labor Party's post-war manifesto was written and the Arts Council was conceived. This vividly told biography follows Dorothy from one side of the Atlantic to the other. It also traces the evolution of Dartington, from its restoration to its time as a home for the period's greatest artists and intellectuals.
"Dorothy's is a delightful story, less well known than it should be, and Brown quotes extensively from her diaries to delve into the world of a largely unsung heroineIt is a real pleasure to discover her through this engaging biography." * The Lady *
Jane Brown is the author of seventeen books on varied subjects, including Vita Sackville-West, Gertrude Jekyll, Edwin Lutyens, Henrietta Luxborough and Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, and the critically-acclaimed classic Gardens of a Golden Afternoon. All of her earlier books inform Dorothy. Jane has lectured in the UK and in America and enjoyed a Harvard fellowship for her biography of the landscape architect Beatrix Farrand (1995). She has also curated exhibitions and written garden histories for three Cambridge colleges.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781783523146 |
| ISBN 10 | 178352314X |
| Title | Angel Dorothy |
| Author | Jane Brown |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Unbound |
| Year published | 2017-02-23 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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