8vo. Pp: 221. First Edition. Black and cream dust jacket with red lettering and photographs to front and back. Publisher's original black boards with gilt at spine. ISBN: 0491027613 Very good with some very slight rubbing to top of spine and small stain to text block. Dust jacket very good, with a somewhat faded spine and some signs of shelfwear to spine ends. N� de r�f. du vendeur C69884

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THE SCANDAL OF SYRIE MAUGHAM.

MCKNIGHT, Gerald.

Edit� par Allen & Unwin,, London,, 1980

ISBN 10 : 0491027613 ISBN 13 : 9780491027618

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8vo. Fine in fine dust wrapper. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. N� de r�f. du vendeur 58803

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The Scandal of Syrie Maugham

McKnight, Gerald

Edit� par W. H. Allen & Co Ltd, London, 1980

ISBN 10 : 0491027613 ISBN 13 : 9780491027618

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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Jacket photo after Cecil Beaton (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top corners slightly bruised, some slight overall yellowing. Price clipped, gift inscription to ffep 'With best wishes to Dr Evans from Jean Mounteney Wellcome 1st Dec 1983' (Jean Wellcome nee Holland was the wife of Syrie's grandson, the child of her son from her first marriage to Henry Mounteney Wellcome), and a handwritten family tree, showing Jean Wellcome's relationship to Syrie Maugham and her family tipped in. Internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 221pp. Syrie Maugham (nee Barnardo 1879-1955), interior decorator, was the daughter of Dr Thomas Barnardo, founder of the children's charity. In 1901, on a visit to Khartoum with her father, she met Henry Wellcome, an American born British industrialist who had made his fortune in pharmaceuticals. She was 22 and he was 48, and they married soon after. In 1903 they had a son, Henry Mounteney Wellcome. The Wellcomes' marriage was not happy, and Syrie had numerous affairs, including with the department store magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge and the novelist William Somerset Maugham. Eventually, after some years of separation she became pregnant with Maugham's only child, Mary Elizabeth. When the child was born in Rome, she was given Wellcome's surname. Wellcome then publicly sued for divorce, naming Maugham as co respondent. Syrie Wellcome and W. Somerset Maugham married in 1917 in New Jersey, although he was predominantly homosexual and would spend much of his marriage apart from his wife with his lover Gerald Haxton. They divorced in 1928. In his 1962 memoir 'Looking Back' Maugham virulently criticised his former wife, which caused a public outcry and scandal. After Maugham's death in 1965, Beverley Nichols, a former lover of Maugham's and a close friend of Syrie's, wrote in rebuttal a defense of her called 'A Case of Human Bondage', published in 1966. A very scarce book, especially with the family inscription. N� de r�f. du vendeur 006034

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