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Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and Sylvia Plath are three of our
most famous authors, for the first time this book tells the story
of the remarkable mothers, who shaped them. Julia Stephen, Clara
Miller, and Aurelia Plath were fascinating women in their own
rights, and their relationships with their daughters were
exceptional; they profoundly influenced the writers’ lives,
literature, and attitude to feminism. Too often in the past
Virginia, Agatha and Sylvia have been defined by their lovers –
Mothers of the Mind redresses the balance by charting the complex,
often contradictory, bond between mother and daughter. Drawing on
previously unpublished sources from archives around the world and
accounts from family and friends of the women this book offers a
new perspective on these iconic authors.
Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the
Churchill sisters - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have
shone. But they were not in any other family, they were Churchills
and neither they nor anyone else could ever forget it. From their
father - 'the greatest Englishman' - to their brother, golden boy
Randolph, to their eccentric and exciting cousins, the Mitford
Girls, they were surrounded by a clan of larger-than-life
characters which often saw them overlooked. Marigold died when she
was very young but her three sisters lived lives full of passion,
drama and tragedy ... Diana, intense and diffident; Sarah,
glamorous and stubborn; Mary, dependable yet determined - each so
different but each imbued with a sense of responsibility toward
each other and their country. Far from being cosseted debutantes,
these women were eyewitnesses at some of the most important events
in world history, including at the Second World War Conferences of
Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam. Yet The Churchill Girls is not a story
set on the battlefields or in Parliament; it is an intimate saga
that sheds light on the complex dynamics of family set against the
backdrop of the tumultuous twentieth century. Accomplished
biographer Rachel Trethewey draws on unpublished family letters
from the Churchill archives to bring Winston and Clementine's
daughters out of the shadows and tell their remarkable stories for
the first time.
Wallis Simpson was the woman who stole the king's heart and rocked
the monarchy - but she was not Edward VIII's first or only love.
This book is about the women he adored before Wallis dominated his
life. There was Rosemary Leveson Gower, the girl he wanted to marry
and who would have made the perfect match for a future king; the
Prince's long-term mistress, Freda Dudley Ward, who exerted a pull
almost equal to Wallis over her lover, but abided by the rules of
the game and knew she would never marry him. Then there was Thelma
Furness, his twice-married American lover, who enjoyed a domestic
life with him, but realised it could not last forever and demanded
nothing more than to be his mistress. In each love affair, Edward
behaved like a cross between a little boy lost and a spoilt child.
Each one of the three women in this book could have changed the
course of history. In examining their lives and impact on the heir
to the throne, we question whether he ever really wanted to be
king.
In February 1918, when the First World War was still being bitterly
fought, prominent society member Lady Northcliffe conceived an idea
to help raise funds for the British Red Cross. Using her husband's
newspapers, The Times and the Daily Mail, she ran a campaign to
collect enough pearls to create a necklace, intending to raffle the
piece to raise money. The campaign captured the public's
imagination. Over the next nine months nearly 4,000 pearls poured
in from around the world. Pearls were donated in tribute to lost
brothers, husbands and sons, and groups of women came together to
contribute one pearl on behalf of their communities. Those donated
ranged from priceless heirlooms -one had survived the sinking of
the Titanic - to imperfect yet treasured trinkets. Working with
Christie's and the International Fundraising Committee of the
British Red Cross, author Rachel Trethewey expertly weaves the
touching story of a generation of women who gave what they had to
aid the war effort and commemorate their losses. In this new,
updated edition, the last string of Red Cross pearls is revealed
for the first time and the story behind their discovery told.
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