MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2014482220
003 DLC
005 20151001081858.0
008 150331t20152015enka b 001 0ceng d
010 $a 2014482220
015 $aGBB556843$2bnb
020 $a9780091954529 (hbk.)
020 $a0091954525 (hbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn913794058
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043 $ae-uk-en
050 00 $aDA28.35.A1$bL58 2015
082 04 $a942.0099$223
100 1 $aLivingstone, Natalie,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe mistresses of Cliveden /$cNatalie Livingstone.
246 1 $iOn jacket:$aMistresses of Cliveden :$bthree centuries of scandal, power and intrigue
264 1 $aLondon :$bHutchinson,$c2015.
264 4 $c©2015
300 $axvii, 494 pages :$billustrations (some color);$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"From its dawn in the 1660s to its twilight in the 1960s, Cliveden was an emblem of elite misbehaviour and intrigue. Conceived by the Duke of Buckingham as a retreat for his scandalous affair with Anna-Maria, Countess of Shrewsbury, the house later served as the backdrop for the Profumo Affair, which would bring down a government and change the course of British history. In the three hundred years between the Countess and Christine Keeler, the house was occupied by a dynasty of remarkable women: Elizabeth Villiers, an intellectual who brokered the rise and fall of governments; Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, a minor German royal who almost became queen of England; Harriet Duchess of Sutherland, the glittering society hostess turned political campaigner; and Nancy Astor, the consummate controversialist who became the first woman to take a seat in parliament. Under the direction of these women, Cliveden provided a stage for political plots and artistic premieres, hosted grieving monarchs and republican radicals, was idealised as a family home, and maligned as a threat to national security"--Cover jacket flap.
600 10 $aShrewsbury, Anna Maria Brudenell Talbot,$cCountess of,$d1642-1702.
600 10 $aVilliers, Elizabeth,$cCountess of Orkney,$d1657?-1733.
600 00 $aAugusta,$cPrincess of Wales,$d1719-1772.
600 10 $aSutherland, Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower,$cDuchess of,$d1806-1868.
600 10 $aAstor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor,$cViscountess,$d1879-1964.
610 20 $aCliveden (England)
651 0 $aEngland$vBiography.