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Œuvres de Sylvia Brooke

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Autres noms
Ranee of Sarawak
Brett, Hon. Sylvia Leonora (birth)
Date de naissance
1885
Date de décès
1971
Sexe
female
Nationalité
UK
Lieu de naissance
London, England, UK
Lieu du décès
St. James, Barbados
Lieux de résidence
Sarawak, Borneo
Cranbourne, Berkshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Professions
aristocrat
autobiographer
Relations
Brett, Reginald Baliol (father)
Courte biographie
Sylvia Brett Brooke was born in London, a daughter of Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher, and his wife Eleanor. In 1911, she married Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, with whom she had three daughters. Her husband was the last of the British "White Rajahs" who ruled a jungle kingdom on the island of Borneo for 100 years until 1946. Sylvia spent most of her time in England and was famous for her bohemian parties. She became a novelist and autobiographer, and was the author of 11 books published in the UK and the USA, including Queen of the Head-Hunters (1970). Philip Eade wrote her biography, Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters: An Outrageous Englishwoman and her Lost Kingdom (2007).

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Œuvres
3
Membres
42
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Évaluation
½ 3.5
ISBN
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