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Title: The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters by Anne de Courcy ISBN: 0-06-621061-5 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Triple trouble
Comment: This is a sound biography on the Curzon sisters and a superior work to de Courcy's biography on Diana Mitford, Oswald Mosley's second wife. Mosley features frequently in this account of Lord Curzon's three daughters and his involvement with all three sisters is sure to raise eyebrows.
The book reads easily and it does provide a fascinating insight into the glamour filled days of 1930s London. Contrasting with the parties, lunches and extravagance is the political evolution of Mosley and his wife. Their shift from the Conservatives to Labour and finally to the British Union of Fascists highlights the problems faced by working class Britons during the depression.
Although not as well written or researched as Robert Skidelsky's biography on Mosley, this is a nice introduction to the world of the British aristocracy in the 1930s.
Rating: 4
Summary: Gossipy, fascinating, but a little wearying by end
Comment: This is a fascinating book for anyone interested in the history of interwar Britain. The three Curzon sisters, via their marriages, love affairs, and circle of friends managed to touch on just about every wild, scandalous, or history-making personage of the time, including the abdicating Prince of Wales and his wife, Churchill, and Hitler. The book is engrossing, but by the end of it, you're almost exhausted from the wild emotional swings, bed-hopping, and just outright meanness that the sisters and their circle exhibit. I closed the book feeling rather sorry for Irene, and feeling angry at Baba - who in the traditional manner of the gleefully wicked, outlived just about everybody. Reccomended.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fabulous!
Comment: I loved this book. It makes no pretenses toward being other than what it is: a biography of several shallow aristocrats who played constant games of "musical beds," left the rearing of their children to nannies, fought with one another constantly, and didn't understand why they were so miserable. Rather than wasting our time with political machinations (God knows the Curzon sisters didn't; they supported various parties based on who the menfolk supported, even when the menfolk were Oswald Mosely, and then didn't understand why their Jewish friends stopped talking to them), the author describes their clothes and the tangled personal relationships and bizarre dependencies that made up their lives. Seriously, it's fantastic.
This is the sort of book that you have to read in the right sort of company so that you can shout out updates: "Okay, now she's sleeping with her brother-in-law! Wait... now it's the other one! Oooh, now the family's telling her to do it!... Okay, now her husband's following the prince of Wales around like a puppy! Now the other one's sleeping with that pianist guy!... My God, he slept with her stepmother? What is up with these people?"
A lot of sex, a lot of scandal... Basically, it's like a really long Vogue article. If that's your cup of tea, you'll love this.
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Title: The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell ISBN: 0393324141 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Aristocrats : Sarah, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 by Stella Tillyard ISBN: 0374524475 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 30 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford ISBN: 0575400048 Publisher: Trafalgar Square Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels by Nancy Mitford ISBN: 0375718990 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Counting My Chickens . . .: And Other Home Thoughts by Sophia Topley, Susan Hill, Deborah Vivien Freeman- Devonshire, Tom Stoppard, Will Topley ISBN: 0374130299 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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