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Lädt ... Ettie: The Intimate Life And Dauntless Spirit Of Lady Desboroughvon Richard Davenport-Hines
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Beautiful heiress, accomplished flirt, aristocratic hostess, tragic mother, and Edwardian icon, Ettie Desborough is a fascinating but forgotten figure. She has been celebrated in countless memoirs but this is the first biography of her, based on private family archives and letters. Ettie Fane was born in 1867 and orphaned at three. At 20 she married Willie Grenfell, later Lord Desborough, a genial sportsman. Beautiful, rich, charming, and clever, she soon became the center of the group known as "the Souls" and a leading hostess at two magnificent country houses. She was the intimate friend of powerful leaders including Balfour, Curzon, and Churchill; the writers that she entertained included Wilde, Kipling, Wells, Yeats, and Sassoon. This is a portrait of a life which personified the last epoch of aristocratic glamour, elegance, and power that ended in 1914. But tragedy was not far away. In 1915 her son Julian died in France of war wounds. Six weeks later her second son Billy was killed in action. Her youngest son Ivo would be killed shortly after the war. Other deaths on the Western Front--of lovers and younger admirers--hurt her terribly too. But despite intense private misery, she reacted with outward courage and self-mastery. Grief revealed the greatness of her spirit. In the 1920s and 1930s she continued to collect new types, especially gifted young men, relishing people of all ages up to her death in 1952, a redoubtable survivor from a vanished age. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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She was a woman of spirit, a woman who knew her role in life and embraced it as bes she could but also worked ways around this role to influence people and ease things for everyone. The biography themes parts of her life; The Orphan - her youth; The Soul - where she builds her first coterie and finds friends, mostly for life; the Flirt - where she comes out and lands a husband; the Mother - she marries and has children; the Edwardian - where her morals and mental landscape is challenged by modern thinking; The Mourner - where world war I and subsequent years rob her and many of her friends of their children; The Grande Dame - where she rules her social circle; the Mother-in-Law - where her daughters marry; the Courtier - her relationship with the royal family and the Dowager - where her houses are taken for the war effort and she ages and her life comes to an end. If I every manage to cram in half of what she accomplished in my life, I will be happy.
I found it an interesting read, it brought the character to life and would be an invaluable tool for authors looking to create a character during her lifetime. ( )