A Profound Secret: May Gaskell, her daughter Amy, and Edward Burne-Jones - Couverture souple

Dimbleby, Josceline

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0552999814 ISBN 13 : 9780552999816

Editeur : Black Swan, 2005

Synopsis

A chance encounter with Andrew Lloyd Webber at a summer party sent Josceline Dimbleby on a quest to uncover a mystery in her own family's past. Her great-aunt Amy Gaskell was the subject of a beautiful dark portrait by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, but all that was known about Amy, according to family lore, was that she had 'died young of a broken heart'.

In her search, Josceline discovered a cache of unpublished letters from Burne-Jones to her great-grandmother May Gaskell, Amy's mother.They formed a passionate and prolific correspondence, of up to five letters a day, from the last six years of the painter's life. As she read, more and more questions were raised: why did Burne-Jones feel he had to protect May from an overwhelming sadness? What was the deep secret she had confided to him? And what was the tragic truth behind beautiful Amy's wayward, wandering life, her strange marriage and her unexplained early death?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Josceline Dimbleby is the author of many bestselling cookery books and a winner of the André Simon and Glenfiddich Cookery food-writers' awards. She wrote a cookery column for the Sunday Telegraph for fifteen years. She recently turned to travel writing and has written travel pieces for the Mail on Sunday, Condé Nast Traveller and Sainsburys Magazine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Black Swan
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0552999814
• ISBN 13: 9780552999816
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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