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Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry by Anne de Courcy
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Category: Biography & Memoir
From the author of the critically acclaimed THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS, the story of a glittering aristocrat who was also at the heart of political society in the interwar years. At the age of twenty-one, Edith Chaplin married one of the most eligible bachelors of the day, the eldest son of the sixth M ...Show more
Society's Queen : The life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry by Anne De Courcy
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
At the age of twenty-one, Edith Chaplin married one of the most eligible bachelors of the day, the eldest son of the sixth Marquess of Londonderry. Her husband served in the Ulster cabinet and was Air Minister in the National Government of 1934-5. Edith founded the Women's Legion during the First World ...Show more
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-hunting in the Raj by Anne De Courcy
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Category: Popular History
From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible me ...Show more
The Husband-Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York by Anne De Courcy
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Category: Popular History
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of you ...Show more
The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York by Anne de Courcy
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Category: Popular History
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of you ...Show more
The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters by Anne De Courcy
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Women in History Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Viceroy's Daughters is the riveting chronicle of the dazzling lives of three remarkable sisters -- aristocratic, rich, spirited and willful-born when the wealth and privilege of the British upper classes were at their zenith. Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (born 1898) and Alexandra (born 1904) were the ...Show more