Counting One's Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0374185220 ISBN 13 : 9780374185220

Editeur : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2012

Synopsis

La biographie officielle de William Shawcross de la reine Elizabeth la reine mère, publiée en septembre 2009, a été un énorme succès critique et commercial. L'une des grandes révélations du livre a été la correspondance privée perspicace et spirituelle de la reine Elizabeth. En effet, le Sunday Times a décrit ses lettres comme «merveilleuses. . . débordant de vivacité et d'irrévérence, d'aciérie et de douceur.

Maintenant, dans Counting One's Blessings, Shawcross a rassemblé une sélection de ses lettres, en s'appuyant sur la vaste richesse des archives royales et au château de Glamis. La reine Elizabeth était une correspondante prolifique, de sa petite enfance avant la Première Guerre mondiale à la toute fin de sa longue vie au début du XXIe siècle, et ses lettres offrent aux lecteurs un aperçu vivant de la vraie personne derrière le visage public.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Has any previous collection of letters spanned Queen Mary, Eleanor Roosevelt, Benjamin Britten and Norwich City Football Club? . . . Here is a fluent narrator who, despite frequent grumbles about journalists, would have made a very good one with her natural eye for the telling detail . . . There are countless fresh insights . . . an enchanting, often moving and sometimes hilarious canter from the Great War to the new millennium with a rider who refuses to slow down" --Daily Mail

"We get her take on two world wars, the abdication, the premature death of her husband and the marriages of her daughters and grandchildren . . . there is something to be said for reading the Queen Mother in her own words, which are embellished with copious capitals, exclamation marks and underlinings" --Sunday Times

"How one warms to her! . . . Precocious historian; shrewd literary critic; discerning gastronome: so much more than a nice old doll in a hat."
--Evening Standard

"Have letters from the same person spanning 92 years ever been published before? . . . The Queen Mother was a leading example of the type that scarcely exists today - a highly intelligent, well-connected woman . . . Such women were often well educated by governesses and well-read . . . they wrote with modesty, precision, spontaneity and with kindness and wit . . . Queen Elizabeth spots small things . . . She can move from the big to the small in a way that illuminates both" --Daily Telegraph

"This book will revive you from any recession blues." --Readers Digest

"These letters have been discreetly and tastefully selected."
--Times

Présentation de l'éditeur

One of the revelations of William Shawcross's official biography of the Queen Mother was her private correspondence. Indeed the Sunday Times described her letters as 'wonderful ... brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness.'

Queen Elizabeth was a prolific correspondent from her earliest childhood and her letters offer readers a vivid insight into the person behind the public face. They reveal - in her own words - the little girl writing to her family; the young woman who, eventually, accepted Prince Albert's proposal; the Duchess of York, embracing the public role demanded of her, on royal tours both at home and abroad. They reveal, too, her shock when she and her husband realized that he would become King, the dreadful toll exacted by the Second World War, culminating in the King's tragically early death, and her determination to find a role for herself during her long widowhood. Full of wit, acute observation and a deeply held sense of duty, Queen Elizabeth's letters offer a chronicle not only of her long life, but of the twentieth century.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374185220
• ISBN 13: 9780374185220
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 666
• Éditeur: Shawcross William
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible