|
Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Individual photographers
|
Buy Now
Joan - Beauty, Rebel, Muse: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor (Hardcover, Main Market Ed.)
Loot Price: R631
Discovery Miles 6 310
You Save: R94
(13%)
|
|
|
Joan - Beauty, Rebel, Muse: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor (Hardcover, Main Market Ed.)
Expected to ship within 9 - 17 working days
|
Volumes have been written by and about Patrick Leigh Fermor, but
his wife Joan is almost entirely absent from their pages. Now Simon
Fenwick, the first archivist to see the Leigh Fermor papers,
reveals a woman hitherto only fleetingly glimpsed. A talented
photographer, Joan defied the social conventions of her times and,
though she came from a wealthy and well-connected family, earned
her own living. Through her lover, and later editor of the TLS,
Alan Pryce-Jones, she met and mingled with the leading lights of
1930s bohemia - John Betjeman, Cyril Connolly, Evelyn Waugh,
Maurice Bowra (who adored her) and Osbert Lancaster, among others.
She featured regularly in the gossip columns, not only for her
affairs and her fashionable clothes, but for her intrepid travels
to Russia and America. In 1936 she met and subsequently married the
journalist John Rayner, but her belief in open marriage was not
shared by her husband and their relationship foundered. Then, in
1944 in Cairo, where she was a cypher clerk, she met Paddy Leigh
Fermor, lionized for his daring kidnap of the Nazi General Kreipe
in Crete. They would remain together until her death in 2003. In
this riveting biography, written with full access to Joan's
personal archive, Simon Fenwick reveals the extraordinary life of a
woman who, until now, has been defined by the man she married and
their famous friends. Here, at last, Joan is placed at the centre
of her own story. It is also a riveting portrait of a marriage and
a milieu, revealing the sexual and intellectual mores of that
wartime generation who lived life at full tilt, no matter what the
consequences.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(1)
