Those Wild Wyndhams by Claudia Renton

Those Wild Wyndhams by Claudia Renton

Three sisters beautiful, cultured and aristocratic, born into immense wealth during the reign of Queen Victoria. Their dramatic lives are here unfolded in a rich historical biography certain to appeal to fans of Downton Abbey, Georgiana and Stella Tillyards Aristocrats.

‘A triumphant account of three Edwardian sisters balancing the competing demands of head and heart’ Observer, Books of the Year

‘Wonderful … a magnificently skillful biography of this trio of sexy sisters and the politically turbulent context of their livesRenton demonstrates her scholarship with butterfly-winged elegance as she tells the story of a generation of Imperialist Victorians Suffused with privilege, power, money and sex that eventually ended in tragedy’ Evening Standard

‘Renton never loses sight of the bigger historical picture. She sets the sisters’ fabulously privileged and sometimes troubled lives against the convulsions of home and international politics through which they lived. The result is an impeccably researched, beautifully written and compellingly readable biography’ Daily Mail

‘Magnificent … [It] has the wisdom, excitement and psychological depth of a very good novel. She succeeds in combining the novelist’s art with the historian’s craft, laying the sources and workings before us. The beauty and romance are captured unforgettably’ Observer

‘Impeccably rehearsed and researched … a serious, spellbinding chronicle of the last days of Edwardian England’ The Times

‘This elegantly written tableau of a book is much more than a group biography; it is an elegiac account of the horrors of the First World War from a female perspective. Renton is excellent at setting personal events within their larger political or social context’ Literary Review

‘A lucid and superbly researched book’ Spectator

‘Hilarious, heartbreaking and completely absorbing, Renton has captured the last rays of light of a gilded family of remarkable women’ Amanda Foreman

‘Readers who enjoyed reading about the Mitfords and Stella Tillyard's ‘Aristocrats’ will relish Renton's elegant book. [An] enthralling period portrait’ Daily Express

Claudia Renton took a First at Oxford and was awarded the Gibbs Book Prize for Modern History. Now a practising barrister, she was previously an actress, appearing with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the National Theatre. She is co-author of Heroes with Simon Sebag Montefiore and was identified as one of the Guardian’s ‘new history girls’ and Vogue’s 'Bright Stars' of the next decade. She lives in London.

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ISBN 13	9780007544899
ISBN 10	0007544898
Title	Those Wild Wyndhams
Author	Claudia Renton
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2014-01-30
Number of pages	512
Prizes	Winner of Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2014
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