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Juniper Hall - An English Refuge from the French Revolution (Paperback, Main)
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Juniper Hall - An English Refuge from the French Revolution (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R517
Discovery Miles 5 170
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In 1792-3, Juniper Hall was the unlikely refuge for a group of
French aristocrats, freshly escaped from the dramas of the
revolution. Into the quiet Surrey countryside descended the
sophisticated, slightly scandalous Madame de Stael and her
entourage of friends and lovers. All had played leading roles in
the French Revolution, but with the excesses of the Terror
beginning, they feared for their lives in France. The novelist
Fanny Burney was staying nearby, with her sister, Susanna Phillips.
Captivated by their new neighbours, the sisters became the friends
and confidantes of the French. Linda Kelly elegantly recreates the
troubled and brilliant world of those French exiles who, at a time
when their hopes and ambitions lay in ruins, refused to abandon
their high spirits, their intellectual curiosity - or their loves.
'This skilful evocation and weaving together of place and
personality delighted me ... a delicate and witty summoning up of
the ghosts of Fanny Burney, Madame de Stael and their French
friends and lovers in rural Surrey in the summer of 1793.' Claire
Tomalin, Independent on Sunday 'A short scintillating study of
young de Stael, her lovers, and her shocked friend Fanny Burney in
Surrey of all places: Linda Kelly, Juniper Hall: An English Refuge
from the French Revolution.' Richard Holmes, New York Review of
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