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Comprend les noms: Ysenda Maxtone-Graham

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Slightly Foxed 69: The Pram in the Hall (2010) — Contributeur — 26 exemplaires
Slightly Foxed 36: Attics with Attitude (2012) — Contributeur — 21 exemplaires
Slightly Foxed 40: Mellow Fruitfulness (2013) — Contributeur — 21 exemplaires
Slightly Foxed 54: An Unlikely Duo (2017) — Contributeur — 19 exemplaires
Slightly Foxed 44: My Grandfather and Mr. Standfast (2014) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
Slightly Foxed 56: Making the Best of It (2017) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
Slightly Foxed 63: Adrift on the Tides of War (2019) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires

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Autres noms
Maxtone Graham, Ysenda May
Date de naissance
1962-12-31
Sexe
female
Nationalité
UK
Lieux de résidence
London, England, UK
Cambridge, England, UK
Études
Girton College, Cambridge
Professions
journalist
biographer
children's book author
Relations
Struther, Jan (grandparent)
Courte biographie
Ysenda Maxtone Graham reported for Harpers & Queen and Tatler. She has written a biography of her grandmother Jan Struther (pen name of Joyce Maxtone Graham), creator of the beloved Mrs. Miniver character.

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BooksInMirror | 2 autres critiques | Feb 19, 2024 |
Not as charmingly jaw-dropping as Terms and Conditions, but still a delightful nostalgia trip through the awfulness/glory of the British summer holiday. Which barely overlapped at all with my NZ summer memories of swimming in rivers, living in a pup tent, and exploring beaches and bush; how lucky we were.
 
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adzebill | 1 autre critique | Aug 1, 2021 |
Enthralling account of life at a girls' boarding school, a foreign subject to me but one which will wash some readers away in waves of aching nostalgia/trauma. The author has interviewed numerous Old Girls and Very Old Girls, most a bit posh, and has a delicious way with deadpan anecdote and spinning atmosphere and narrative out of multiple voices. Also it's frequently hilarious. I wanted to buy about 20 copies and give one to all the funny clever women I knew who (boarding school or not) would surely recognise elements of their childhood in its pages.… (plus d'informations)
 
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adzebill | 3 autres critiques | Jan 28, 2021 |
A wonderful read, written by the granddaughter of the creator of "Mrs. Miniver", who lifted many a spirit with her portraits of daily life in an upper middle class household. As the film version of Mrs. Miniver was rather far removed from the fiction created by Joyce Maxtone Graham (alias Jan Struther), so Joyce's "real life" was very different from that of her light-hearted, happily married heroine. This book is a fascinating portrait of the woman herself. Highly recommended.
 
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laytonwoman3rd | 2 autres critiques | Jan 22, 2019 |

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Œuvres
26
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8
Membres
324
Popularité
#73,085
Évaluation
4.0
Critiques
11
ISBN
33
Langues
4

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