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Cynthia Asquith (1887–1960)

Auteur de The Third Ghost Book

41+ oeuvres 412 utilisateurs 2 critiques 1 Favoris

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Œuvres de Cynthia Asquith

The Third Ghost Book (1955) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 56 exemplaires
The Second Ghost Book (1952) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 46 exemplaires
The Ghost Book: Sixteen Stories of the Uncanny (1926) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 35 exemplaires
This Mortal Coil (1947) 29 exemplaires
The Princess Elizabeth Gift Book (1935) 24 exemplaires
The Corner Shop [short story] (2022) 16 exemplaires
Comtesse Tolstoï (1961) 15 exemplaires
Remember and be glad (1952) 11 exemplaires
The Black Cap: New Stories of Murder and Mystery (1928) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Haply I may remember (1950) 11 exemplaires
Portrait of Barrie (1955) 9 exemplaires
A Book of Modern Ghosts (1953) — Directeur de publication — 9 exemplaires
Shudders (1929) — Contributeur; Directeur de publication — 7 exemplaires

Oeuvres associées

Histoires de fantômes (1983) — Contributeur, quelques éditions1,228 exemplaires
[ASSASSIN'S CLOAK] by (Author)Taylor, Irene on Nov-11-03 (2000) — Contributeur, quelques éditions550 exemplaires
65 Great Spine Chillers (1988) — Contributeur — 79 exemplaires
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 1 (1987) — Contributeur — 76 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women (2012) — Contributeur — 70 exemplaires
The Venus Factor (Anthology 8-in-1) (1972) — Contributeur — 41 exemplaires
Who knocks? (1946) — Contributeur — 38 exemplaires
The Fireside Book of Ghost Stories (1947) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
Mind in Chains (1970) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires
Klassieke griezelverhalen (1980) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2005: Haven't I Read This Before? (2005) — Contributeur; Contributeur, quelques éditions7 exemplaires
Terrors, Terrors, Terrors (1979) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
The Little Monsters (1969) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Tchnienie Grozy — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

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Well written memoir of a childhood spent in the autumnal glow of the Late Victorian aristocracy. Pleasingly free of sentimentality.

Lady Cynthia Asquith was the eldest daughter of Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss (1857-1937) and his wife Mary Wyndham – sister of Chief Secretary for Ireland George Wyndham.

The Charteris family was Scottish, but their primary residence was the lovely Tudor era mansion of Stanway, in Gloucestershire. It was in the Cotswolds, where it had originally been the Abbot’s residence in a one of the monasteries “dissolved” and re-allocated by King Henry VIII. (Later, Stanway was leased to family friend and “Peter Pan” author J.M. Barrie, for whom Lady Cynthia served as secretary for many years.

Her mother, Mary, Lady Wemyss (1862-1937) was one of the leading members of the social group “The Souls”. She was a warm hostess, and was particularly close to future Prime Minister Arthur Balfour, with whom she corresponded frequently. Although the Wemyss family had multiple houses, and animals, and lived in an aristocratic manner, Lady Cynthia remembers that there was a constant concern for finances, and much discussion about the need for “retrenchment.” For example, all of the family, except for Lord Wemyss, travelled third class on trains. He had lost money on the stock exchange as a young man, and never really recovered financially.

Lady Cynthia was frequently the “sitter” for a number of prominent portrait artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She recollects memories of her encounters with a number of these “greats”: Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), and Augustus John (1878-1961). As a girl, she also met G.F. Watts (1817-1904), though she never sat for him. Later, she and her husband were good friends of painter and designer Rex Whistler (1905-1944); they spent a magical evening with Whistler shortly before his death in World War II.

Two of Lady Cynthia's brothers were killed in World War I, as was a brother-in-law, Raymond Asquith. She also bore sad memories of a very dear brother who died of scarlet fever at the age of 4. But Lady Cynthia doesn't dwell on the pain of family loss: the emphasis here is on childhood, and the tone certainly merits the adjective "haply".
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Signalé
yooperprof | Mar 20, 2012 |
contains "Spinsters' Rest" by Clemence Dane, which I now feel compelled to read
 
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Kaethe | Oct 17, 2016 |

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Œuvres
41
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14
Membres
412
Popularité
#59,116
Évaluation
3.8
Critiques
2
ISBN
17
Langues
3
Favoris
1

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