Frances Donaldson (1907–1994)
Auteur de P.G. Wodehouse: A Biography
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Œuvres de Frances Donaldson
Evelyn Waugh; portrait of a country neighbour 1 exemplaire
Edward The Eighth 1 exemplaire
Four Years Harvest 1 exemplaire
Edward VIII: Edward and Wallis Simpson 1 exemplaire
The Marconi Scandal. [With plates.] 1 exemplaire
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- Nom canonique
- Donaldson, Lady Frances Lonsdale
- Autres noms
- Baroness Donaldson of Kingsbridge
Lonsdale, Frances Annesley (birth name)
Lady Donaldson - Date de naissance
- 1907-01-13
- Date de décès
- 1994-03-27
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu du décès
- London, England, UK
- Professions
- biographer
farming writer
memoirist - Relations
- Lonsdale, Frederick (father)
- Courte biographie
- Lady Donaldson, née Frances Annesley Lonsdale, known as Frankie, was a daughter of playwright Frederick Lonsdale. In 1935, she married as her second husband John Donaldson, an academic turned farmer who later became British Minister for the Arts. During World War II, she successfully ran their farm, and wrote Approach To Farming (1941), followed by Four Years' Harvest (1945), and Milk Without Tears (1955). She then turned to memoirs and biographies and produced Freddy (1957), about her father; The Marconi Scandal (1962); and Edward VIII (1974), which won the Wolfson History Prize that year and was the basis for a six-part television series "Edward and Mrs. Simpson." Other books included a dual biography of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (1977), and lives of Evelyn Waugh (1967) and P.G. Wodehouse (1982). She wrote her autobiography in two volumes as Child of the Twenties (1959) and A Twentieth-Century Life (1992). She became Baroness Donaldson when her husband was created Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge in 1967.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 25
- Membres
- 560
- Popularité
- #44,620
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 9
- ISBN
- 44
- Langues
- 1