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Queen of The Savoy - The Extraordinary Life of Helen D'Oyly Carte 1852-1913 (Hardcover)
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Queen of The Savoy - The Extraordinary Life of Helen D'Oyly Carte 1852-1913 (Hardcover)
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Born in 1852 in a small coastal town in Scotland, Helen D'Oyly
Carte, through academic brilliance and an incredible talent for
'managing chaos', developed and ran the world's foremost top
entertainment and hospitality organisation with her husband,
Richard D'Oyly Carte (known as D'Oyly). By the age of 30, she was
running five Gilbert & Sullivan companies for the Savoy Group
in the United States, crossing the Atlantic thirty times, and for
the next three decades she ran the Savoy Theatre, the Savoy Hotel,
Claridges and Simpson's-in-the-Strand. She was the only one trusted
by the prickly, brilliant William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, to
keep them from breaking apart, as they so regularly wanted to do.
From a conventional upbringing, she chose to remain in London after
the emigration of her family to Australia, first as an actress,
then working alongside D'Oyly - she took over the reins as he
became ill in the late 1880s. Until her death in 1913, she
flourished and was famous, interviewed and admired, in a
competitive, vibrant London that was the centre of world power and
commerce. Queen of The Savoy charts Helen's course from Wigtown to
the West End, where running a company with hundreds of employees,
led to her fame and fortune. The artists Whistler and Sickert were
friends and immortalised her in portraits. She was known in her
time as the true founder of the Gilbert and Sullivan franchise and
this biography will bring to light, some 110 years after her death,
the extraordinary role that she played in one of Britain's greatest
success stories.
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