"ARE YOU AWARE," Queen Victoria wrote to her eldest daughter in 1862, "that Alexandra has the smallest head ever seen?
An edition of Eminent Georgians
(1995)
Eminent Georgians
the lives of King George V, Elizabeth Bowen, St. John Philby & Nancy Astor
1st ed.
by John Halperin
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King George V, a monarch often deemed stodgy and reactionary; Elizabeth Bowen, a brilliant Anglo-Irish writer, exposed as a World War II English spy monitoring her native Ireland; St. John Philby, father of the notorious spy Kim Philby; and Nancy Astor, an American divorcee who became the first female member of Parliament, make up the quartet of personalities through which John Halperin explores a world of intrigue existing just below the glittering surface of Britain in the 1920s and 1930s.
Describing the age as simultaneously conventional and progressive, Victorian and modern, Halperin considers the impact that these leading figures had on their era, as well as the extent to which they themselves were shaped by the age in which they lived.
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Biography, Explorers, History, Irish Novelists, Kings and rulers, Novelists, Irish, Orientalists, Women politicians, Middle East specialists, Irish Women novelists, Women in politics, Astor, nancy witcher langhorne astor, viscountess, 1879-1964, Bowen, elizabeth, 1899-1973, George v, king of great britain, 1865-1936, Philby, h. st. j. b. (harold st. john bridger), 1885-1960, Asianists, Women, Political activityPeople
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), George V King of Great Britain (1865-1936), H. St. J. B. Philby (1885-1960), Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor Astor Viscountess (1879-1964)Places
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Eminent Georgians: The Lives of King George V, Elizabeth Bowen, St. John Philby, and Lady Astor
December 15, 1997, Palgrave Macmillan
Paperback
in English
0312176856 9780312176853
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Eminent Georgians: the lives of King George V, Elizabeth Bowen, St. John Philby & Nancy Astor
1995, St. Martin's Press
in English
- 1st ed.
0312126611 9780312126612
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