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Book Synopsis The Great Marlborough and His Duchess by : Virginia Cowles
Download or read book The Great Marlborough and His Duchess written by Virginia Cowles and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life of the first Duke of Marlborough, John Churchill, who was responsible for shattering the 300-year French domination of Europe and paving the way for the establishment of a British Empire.
Book Synopsis Lily, Duchess of Marlborough (1854-1909) by : Sally E. Svenson
Download or read book Lily, Duchess of Marlborough (1854-1909) written by Sally E. Svenson and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily Price Hamersley became, with her 1888 marriage to the eighth Duke of Marlborough, the highest-ranking American peeress in England and the first American duchess in fifty years. The duke was one of three distinguished, but, alas, short-lived husbands of this beauty from Troy, New York. Her first husband, Louis Hamersley, was a patrician New Yorker who left her an affluent widow at the age of twenty-eight. Her second was the brilliant but "wicked," divorced, and socially outcast Duke of Marlborough--brother-in-law to Jennie Churchill, uncle to Winston, and father to the first husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt. Lily's third choice was an ebullient Anglo-Irish lord, William de la Poer Beresford, a horseracing enthusiast whose popularity has been likened to that of modern film stars. In the course of a surprising life, Lily knew triumph and heartbreak while proving herself a woman of self-confidence, optimism, and remarkable resilience. Lily's "three marriages, her confident ease in moving into impossibly complicated and exalted social realms, and her decades of dealing with legal complexities related to wills, estates, and trusts make her story read like a newly discovered Edith Wharton novel. The history of the fairytale years when Lily became the Duchess of Marlborough and a dear friend of Winston Churchill is immensely readable and fascinating." Eric Homberger, emeritus professor of American Studies, University of East Anglia, and author of Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Social Power in a Gilded Age "This entrancing portrait of a conventional American girl who made three extraordinary marriages draws on society papers and women's magazines as well as archives, court records and private papers to create a lively and vivid picture of social elites on both sides of the Atlantic during the late nineteenth century." Sally Mitchell, author of Daily Life in Victorian England and The New Girl: Girls' Culture in England, 1880-1915
Book Synopsis Memoirs of the Duke of Marlborough by : William Coxe
Download or read book Memoirs of the Duke of Marlborough written by William Coxe and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Favourite written by Ophelia Field and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An incredible story crackling with royal passion, envy, ambition and betrayal ... Field's account of the psychological power play between Queen Anne and her confidante is surely definitive. A tour de force' Lucy Worsley Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, was as glamorous as she was controversial. Politically influential and independently powerful, she was an intimate, and then a blackmailer, of Queen Anne, accusing her of keeping lesbian favourites - including Sarah's own cousin Abigail Masham. Ophelia Field's masterly biography brings Sarah Churchill's own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life. Here is an unforgettable portrait of a woman who cared intensely about how we would remember her - perfect for fans interested in the history behind the major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz with Olivia Colman and Emma Stone.
Book Synopsis Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough by : Hugo Vickers
Download or read book Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough written by Hugo Vickers and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1980 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gladys Marie Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (née Deacon; 1881? 1977), was a US socialite famous for her good looks. She was the mistress and later the second wife of Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough. Born in Paris, Gladys Marie Deacon was the daughter of Edward Deacon and his wife Florence, daughter of Admiral Charles H. Baldwin. She had three sisters and a brother who died in infancy. Her father was imprisoned after shooting her mother's lover to death in 1892 and the girl was sent to school at the Convent de l?Assomption at Auteuil. After Edward's release from prison, Florence abducted Gladys from the convent. The couple was divorced in 1893 and the custody of the three older children, including Gladys, was given to Edward. He took them to the United States, where Deacon remained for the next three years. Edward Deacon soon became mentally unstable and was hospitalised at McLean Hospital, dying there in 1901. Deacon and her sisters returned to France to live with their mother.
Book Synopsis The Profligate Duke by : Mary Soames
Download or read book The Profligate Duke written by Mary Soames and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sphinx written by Hugo Vickers and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2020** **The Times Best Biography Audiobook of the Year 2021** 'Vickers gives breathing, alarming life to a woman who puzzled and thrilled her contemporaries' SUNDAY TIMES 'Best Paperbacks of 2021' 'A continuously astonishing and ultimately moving account of a unique figure, the stuff of great literature' Simon Callow, SUNDAY TIMES 'Gripping . . . jaw-dropping story, brilliantly told' Ysenda Maxtone Graham, THE TIMES 'Mr. Vickers, with his sharp eye for detail, splendidly captures the drama of Gladys's life and the amazing cast of characters she encountered' WALL STREET JOURNAL 'This biography is truly wonderful - a masterclass in storytelling' SUNDAY TIMES 'The most extraordinary, rackety life' William Boyd, DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Richly anecdotal and oddly captivating' Miranda Seymour, FINANCIAL TIMES 'At the end of the book the reader can only say, "Whew! What a story!"' Anne de Courcy, SPECTATOR 'Hugo Vickers's life of Gladys Marlborough is an extraordinary and tragic story, with special resonance today' EVENING STANDARD ******************* One of the most beautiful and brilliant women of her time, Gladys Deacon dazzled and puzzled the glittering social circles in which she moved. Born in Paris to American parents in 1881, Gladys emerged from a traumatic childhood - her father having shot her mother's lover dead when Gladys was only eleven - to captivate and inspire some of the greatest literary and artistic names of the Belle Epoque. Marcel Proust wrote of her, 'I never saw a girl with such beauty, such magnificent intelligence, such goodness and charm.' Berenson considered marrying her, Rodin and Monet befriended her, Boldini painted her and Epstein sculpted her. She inspired love from diverse Dukes and Princes, and the interest of women such as the Comtesse Greffulhe and Gertrude Stein. In 1921, when Gladys was forty, she achieved the wish she had held since the age of fourteen to marry the 9th Duke of Marlborough, then freshly divorced from fellow American Consuelo Vanderbilt. Gladys's circle now included Lady Ottoline Morrell, Lytton Strachey and Winston Churchill, who described her as 'a strange, glittering being'. But life at Blenheim was not a success: when the Duke evicted her in 1933, the only remaining signs of Gladys were two sphinxes bearing her features on the west terraces and mysterious blue eyes in the grand portico. She became a recluse, and the wax injections she'd had to straighten her nose when she was 22 had by now ravaged her beauty. Gladys was to spend her last years in the psycho-geriatric ward of a mental hospital, where she was discovered by a young Hugo Vickers. Intrigued and compelled to unmask the truth of her mysterious life, Vickers visited her over the course of two years, eventually publishing Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough, a biography of her life - and his first book - in 1979, two years after Gladys's death. Forty years on, Vickers has now completely rewritten and revised his original biography, updating it with previously unavailable material and drawing on his own personal research all over Europe and America. He once asked Gladys, 'Where is Gladys Deacon?' She answered him slowly, 'Gladys Deacon? . . . She never existed.' The Sphinx is a fascinating portrait of this elusive but brilliant woman who was at the centre of a now bygone era of wealth and privilege - and a tribute to one of the brightest stars of her age.
Book Synopsis John and Sarah, Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, 1660-1744 by : Stuart Johnson Reid
Download or read book John and Sarah, Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, 1660-1744 written by Stuart Johnson Reid and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Duchess of Marlborough's Collection by : Sarah Jennings Churchill Duchess of Marlborough
Download or read book Duchess of Marlborough's Collection written by Sarah Jennings Churchill Duchess of Marlborough and published by . This book was released on 169? with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Marlborough's Duchess by : Louis Kronenberger
Download or read book Marlborough's Duchess written by Louis Kronenberger and published by New York, Knopf. This book was released on 1958 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sarah Churchill (née Jenyns, spelt Jennings in most modern references), Duchess of Marlborough (5 June 1660 (old style) ? 18 October 1744) rose to be one of the most influential women of her time through her close friendship with Queen Anne of Great Britain. Sarah's friendship and influence with Princess Anne was widely known, and leading public figures often turned their attentions to her in the hope that she would influence Anne to comply with requests. As a result, by the time Anne became queen, Sarah?s knowledge of government, and intimacy with the Queen, had made her a powerful friend and a dangerous enemy."--Wikipedia.
Book Synopsis Private correspondence of Sarah, duchess of Marlborough, illustrative of the court and times of queen Anne, with her sketches and opinions of her contempories, and the select correspondence of John, duke of Marlborough by : Sarah Churchill (duchess of Marlborough.)
Download or read book Private correspondence of Sarah, duchess of Marlborough, illustrative of the court and times of queen Anne, with her sketches and opinions of her contempories, and the select correspondence of John, duke of Marlborough written by Sarah Churchill (duchess of Marlborough.) and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Private Correspondence of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough by : Sarah Jennings Churchill Duchess of Marlborough
Download or read book Private Correspondence of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough written by Sarah Jennings Churchill Duchess of Marlborough and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letters of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough by : Sarah Jennings Churchill Duchess of Marlborough
Download or read book Letters of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough written by Sarah Jennings Churchill Duchess of Marlborough and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis John and Sarah, Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, 1660-1744 (Classic Reprint) by : Stuart Johnson Reid
Download or read book John and Sarah, Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, 1660-1744 (Classic Reprint) written by Stuart Johnson Reid and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from John and Sarah, Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, 1660-1744 There is next to nothing at Blenheim beyond a few parchments and official papers concerning the early career of Marlborough, and therefore I have passed lightly over his services prior to the years in which he won his abiding heritage of renown. It was when Anne came to the throne, and England was confronted with the War of the Spanish Succession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The American Heiress by : Daisy Goodwin
Download or read book The American Heiress written by Daisy Goodwin and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now including an excerpt from VICTORIA: A Novel, by Daisy Goodwin, the Creator/Writer of the Masterpiece Presentation on PBS. "Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin's The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the 1890s who bags an English duke, this is a deliciously evocative first novel that lingers in the mind." --Allison Pearson, New York Times bestselling author of I Don't Know How She Does It and I Think I Love You Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts', suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. Nothing is quite as it seems, however: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive, and the English social scene is full of traps and betrayals. Money, Cora soon learns, cannot buy everything, as she must decide what is truly worth the price in her life and her marriage. Witty, moving, and brilliantly entertaining, Cora's story marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James. "For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat in return for a title and social status. But money didn't always buy them happiness." --Daisy Goodwin in The Daily Mail One of Library Journal's Best Historical Fiction Books of 2011
Book Synopsis In the Matter of the Most Noble the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. Before Sir Wm. Page Wood, Vice-Chancellor, August 7th, 1853 by : George Spencer CHURCHILL (6th Duke of Marlborough.)
Download or read book In the Matter of the Most Noble the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. Before Sir Wm. Page Wood, Vice-Chancellor, August 7th, 1853 written by George Spencer CHURCHILL (6th Duke of Marlborough.) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Account of the Conduct of the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough by : Sarah Jennings Churchill Duchess of Marlborough
Download or read book An Account of the Conduct of the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough written by Sarah Jennings Churchill Duchess of Marlborough and published by . This book was released on 1742 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
