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

Dimbleby, Josceline

ISBN 10: 0552999814 / ISBN 13: 9780552999816

Edité par Black Swan, 2005

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SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 2005* Publisher: * Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Slight shelf wear to edges & corners. Reading creases to spine & hinge with slight dish. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. No tanning. Very slight colouration to page margins & edges. GD* Illustrations: One block of 8 pp. colour & b/w full page photos. Some b/w photo reproductions within text throughout.* Pages: 437 pp. text. xii pp. bibliography & index at rear.* Product Description:- This enthralling family romance explores a lost world of hidden love.more compelling than many novels and more informative than most history books. (Observer ) The author?s family research uncovers a fascinating story which relates to her great-aunt Amy Gaskell and Edward Burne-Jones.* This is a NEAR VG copy of the 1st./ 2nd. with some shelf & reading wear reducing it to GD.* 2005-02-01.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A Profound Secret: May Gaskell, her daughter Amy, and Edward Burne-Jones
• Éditeur: Black Swan
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0552999814
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780552999816
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: y First Edition Thus, 2nd . Imp.
• État de l'article: GD/GD+/ND
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Victorian History
  • Biography

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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In her search, Josceline discovered a cache of unpublished letters from Burne-Jones to her great-grandmother May Gaskell, Amy's mother.They formed a passionate and prolific correspondence, of up to five letters a day,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?

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.