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1939: The Last Season by Anne de Courcy
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Category: History
A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War. The Season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The young debutante daughters of the upper classes were presented to the King and Queen to mark their acceptance into the new adult ...Show more
Chanel's Riviera - Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur 1930-1944 by Anne de Courcy
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Category: History
Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed ...Show more
Chanel's Riviera - Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côte D'Azur, 1930-1944 by Anne de Courcy
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed ...Show more
Debs at War: 1939-1945 by Anne de Courcy
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Category: History | Series: Women in History Ser.
An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the War Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most ...Show more
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age by Anne de Courcy
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Category: Biography
Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said to have inspired half the poets and novelists of the twenties. Born into a life of wealth and privilege, yet one in which she barely saw her parents, Nancy rebelled against expec ...Show more
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship - The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age by Anne de Courcy
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Category: Biography
Born in March 1896, Nancy Cunard was a great beauty, rich, promiscuous, with a mesmeric effect on men. She was also highly intelligent, reading widely and writing poetry. Of Nancy's many affairs the five included in this book are the ones with the American poet Ezra Pound, the novelists Aldous Huxley an ...Show more
Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916 by Anne de Courcy
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Category: History
Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last four years at Number 10 were a period of intens ...Show more
Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916 by Anne de Courcy
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Category: History
Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last four years at Number 10 were a period of intens ...Show more
Snowdon: The Biography by Anne de Courcy
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Category: Biography
How did a photographer who was a relentless playboy, an unashamed womaniser and a leather-clad motorcyclist marry the Queen's sister and become the Establishment figure Lord Snowdon? The brilliantly talented Antony Armstrong-Jones often humiliated Princess Margaret, yet he was compassionate to the cause ...Show more
Snowdon: The Biography by Anne De Courcy
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Category: Biography
Anthony Armstrong-Jones was born to a Welsh father and English-Jewish mother. Creative and inventive, he attended Eton and then Cambridge. The engagement of this motorbike-riding freelance photographer in 1960 to Princess Margaret was a bombshell. Friends privately predicted disaster. And so it proved. ...Show more
Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry by Anne de Courcy
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Category: History
From the author of the critically acclaimed THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS, the story of a glittering aristocrat who was also at the heart of political society in the interwar years. At the age of twenty-one, Edith Chaplin married one of the most eligible bachelors of the day, the eldest son of the sixth M ...Show more
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-hunting in the Raj by Anne De Courcy
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Category: History
From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible me ...Show more