A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing - Couverture rigide

Thomasson, Anna

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1447245539 ISBN 13 : 9781447245537

Editeur : Macmillan, 2015

Synopsis

The winter of 1924: Edith Olivier, alone for the first time at the age of fifty-one, thought her life had come to an end. For Rex Whistler, a nineteen-year-old art student, life was just beginning. Together, they embarked on an intimate and unlikely friendship that would transform their lives. Gradually Edith's world opened up and she became a writer. Her home, the Daye House, in a wooded corner of the Wilton estate, became a sanctuary for Whistler and the other brilliant and beautiful younger men of her circle: among them Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Tennant, William Walton, John Betjeman, the Sitwells and Cecil Beaton - for whom she was 'all the muses'.

Set against a backdrop of the madcap parties of the 1920s, the sophistication of the 1930s and the drama and austerity of the Second World War and with an extraordinary cast of friends and acquaintances, Anna Thomasson brings to life, for the first time, the fascinating, and curious, friendship of a bluestocking and a bright young thing.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anna Thomasson studied for an M Phil in Biography at the University of Buckingham and her thesis was shortlisted for the Daily Mail Biographers' Club Prize. She lives in London and this is her first book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1447245539
• ISBN 13: 9781447245537
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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