The Mistress of Mayfair - Men, Money and the Marriage of Doris Delevingne (Hardcover)

The plot could have been inspired by Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies, but unlike Waugh's novel - which parodies the era of the 'Bright Young Things' - The Mistress of Mayfair is a real-life story of scandal, greed, corruption and promiscuity at the heart of 1920s and '30s high society, focusing on the wily, willful socialite Doris Delevingne and her doomed relationship with the gossip columnist Valentine Browne, Viscount Castlerosse. Marrying each other in pursuit of the finer things in life, their unlikely union was tempestuous from the off, rocked by affairs (with a whole host of society figures, including Cecil Beaton, Diana Mitford and Winston Churchill, amongst others) on both sides, and degenerated into one of London's bitterest, and most talked about, divorce battles. In this compelling new book, Lyndsy Spence follows the rise and fall of their relationship, exploring their decadent society lives in revelatory detail and offering new insight into some of the mid twentieth century's most prominent figures.

General

Imprint:	The History Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Lyndsy Spence
Dimensions:	242 x 165 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-7509-6715-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
LSN:	0-7509-6715-3
Barcode:	9780750967150

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