Aristocrats by Stella Tillyard
This is the story of four 18th-century sisters, Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, great-grandchildren of Charles II, whose extraordinary lives spanned the period 1740-1832. Underlying the drama of the Lennox sisters is a story of everyday life. Winner of the 1995 Fawcett Book Prize.
Tillyard, Stella: - Stella Tillyard is a British novelist and historian. She was educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Her bestselling book Aristocrats was made into a miniseries for BBC1/Masterpiece Theatre, and sold to over twenty countries. Winner of the Meilleur Livre Etranger, the Longman-History Today Prize, and the Fawcett Prize, Tillyard has taught at Harvard University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, London. She is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. Her latest novel is Call Upon the Water (published in the UK under the title The Great Level).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701159337 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701159332 |
| Title | Aristocrats |
| Author | Stella Tillyard |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1994-04-07 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Prizes | Winner of Fawcett Society Book Prize 1995 |
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