Mrs Keppel And Her Daughter

Author : Diana Souhami
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466883502
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter written by Diana Souhami and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Keppel, the married lover of Queen Victoria's eldest son and great-grandmother to Camilla Parker-Bowles, was a key figure in Edwardian society. Hers was the acceptable face of adultery. Discretion was her hallmark. It was her art to be the king's mistress and yet to laud the Royal Family and the institution of marriage. Formidable and manipulative, her attentions to the king brought her wealth, power, and status. Her daughter Violet Trefusis had a long tempestuous affair with the author and aristocrat Vita Sackville-West, during which Vita left her husband and two sons to travel abroad with Violet. It was a liaison that threatened the fabric of Violet's social world, and her passion and recalcitrance in pursuit of it pitted her against her mother and society. From memoirs, diaries, and letters, Diana Souhami portrays this fascinating and intense mother/daughter relationship in Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Her story of these women, their lovers, and their lovers' mothers, highlights Edwardian - and contemporary - duplicity and double standards and goes to the heart of questions about sexual freedoms.

Author : Diana Souhami
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780878818
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter written by Diana Souhami and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Keppel, lover of Queen Victoria's son Edward VII and great-grandmother of Camilla Parker-Bowles, was the acceptable face of Edwardian adultery. It was her art to be the King's mistress yet to laud the Royal Family and the institution of marriage. She partnered the King for yachting at Cowes and helped him choose presents for his wife Queen Alexandra while remaining calmly married to her complaisant husband George. But for her daughter Violet, passionately in love with Vita Sackville-West, romance proved tragic and destructive. Mrs Keppel used all the force at her command to repress the relationship. This fascinating and intense mother-daughter relationship highlights Edwardian and contemporary duplicity and double standards. It goes to the heart of questions about the monarchy, family values and sexual freedoms.

Author : Raymond Lamont-Brown
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752473948
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alice Keppel and Agnes Keyser written by Raymond Lamont-Brown and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed look at the two women in the life of Edward VII during his last years. Alice Keppel, youngest daughter of a Scottish retired admiral and MP emerged from obscurity in 1898 to become the publicly acknowledged mistress of the portly, fun-loving Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII. Agnes Keyser, daughter of a prominent member of the Stock exchange, defied social expectations by not marrying, instead becoming involved in hospital charity work. Her twelve-year relationship with the king was much less in the public eye, but was just as important.

Author : Tom Quinn
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785901532
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs Keppel written by Tom Quinn and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Alice Keppel, it was all about appearances. Her precepts were those of the English upper classes: discretion, manners and charm. Nothing else mattered - especially when it came to her infamous affair with King Edward VII. As the King's favourite mistress up until his death in 1910, Alice held significant influence at court and over Edward himself. But it wasn't just Edward she courted: throughout her life, Alice enthusiastically embarked on affairs with bankers, MPs, peers - anybody who could elevate her standing and pay the right price. She was a shrewd courtesan, and her charisma and voracity ensured her both power and money, combined as they were with an aptitude for manipulation. Drawing on a range of sources, including salacious first-hand eyewitness accounts, bestselling author Tom Quinn paints an extraordinary picture of the Edwardian aristocracy, and traces the lives of royal mistresses down to Alice's great-granddaughter, the current Duchess of Cornwall. Both intriguing and astonishing, this is an unadulterated glimpse into a hidden world of scandal, decadence and debauchery.

Author : Sonia Keppel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edwardian Daughter written by Sonia Keppel and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Diana Souhami
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312366605
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Girls written by Diana Souhami and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Girls is the critically acclaimed true story of two wealthy American heiresses---one an artist, the other a writer---whose stormy, passionate love affair captivated Paris’s salon set between the wars. Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks were rich, American, eccentric, and grandly lesbian. They met in Paris in 1915, and their relationship lasted more than fifty years, despite infidelity, separation, and temperamental differences. Romaine Brooks, a painter, was the product of an unhappy childhood and trusted no one but Natalie. Natalie Barney was passionate about life, sex, and love. Her Friday afternoon salons, attended by Gertrude Stein, and Colette and Edith Sitwell, were a magnet for social introductions and cultural innovations. Drawing from letters, papers, and paintings, Diana Souhami, the award-winning author of Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter, re-creates the lives and loves of this pair of dazzling and wild women. “Epic romance . . . smartly sex-positive and so good-naturedly shocking.” ---The New York Times Book Review “Real tenderness and pathos . . . not only entertaining but affecting reading.” ---The Washington Post “Their friends were the most bohemian, their parties the most risqué, their tortured love affair the most notorious in Europe. Diana Souhami tells a remarkable tale.” ---The Sunday Telegraph (UK)

Author : Michael Holroyd
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9781429969215
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Book of Secrets written by Michael Holroyd and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction book of 2011 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction title for 2011 On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello sits the Villa Cimbrone, a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters that move through Michael Holroyd's new book are destined never to meet, yet the Villa Cimbrone unites them all. A Book of Secrets is a treasure trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements, and family mysteries. With grace and tender imagination, Holroyd brings a company of unknown women into the light. From Alice Keppel, the mistress of both the second Lord Grimthorpe and the Prince of Wales; to Eve Fairfax, a muse of Auguste Rodin; to the novelist Violet Trefusis, the lover of Vita Sackville-West—these women are always on the periphery of the respectable world. Also on the margins is the elusive biographer, who on occasion turns an appraising eye upon himself as part of his investigations in the maze of biography. In A Book of Secrets, Holroyd gives voice to fragile human connections and the mystery of place.

Author : Lucinda Riley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476759944
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shadow Sister written by Lucinda Riley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star D'Apliese is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father - the elusive billionaire, named Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world. He has left each of them a clue to their true heritage, but Star - the most enigmatic of the sisters - is hesitant to step out of the safety of the close relationship she shares with her sister CeCe. In desperation, she decides to follow the first clue she has been left, which leads her to an antiquarian bookshop in London, and the start of a whole new world.

Author : Diana Souhami
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786694859
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Modernism Without Lesbians written by Diana Souhami and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sunday Times Book of the Year Winner of the Polari Prize 'A book about love, identity, acceptance and the freedom to write, paint, compose and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters. To swear, kiss, publish and be damned. It is vastly entertaining and often moving... There isn't a page without an entertaining vignette' The Times. The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place – Paris, Between the Wars – fostered the birth of the Modernist movement. Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein. A trailblazing publisher; a patron of artists; a society hostess; a groundbreaking writer. They were all women who loved women. They rejected the patriarchy and made lives of their own – forming a community around them in Paris. Each of these four central women interacted with a myriad of others, some of the most influential, most entertaining, most shocking and most brilliant figures of the age. Diana Souhami weaves their stories into those of the four central women to create a vivid moving tapestry of life among the Modernists in pre-War Paris. 'One of the best books I've read this year.' James Bridle

Author : Hugo Vickers
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312288867
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alice written by Hugo Vickers and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-03-28 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of the mother-in-law of the present queen of England ... bridging the tumultuous history of 20th century Europe and intertwined with the tragedy and glory of that era.