Valerie Pakenham (1939–2023)
Auteur de The Big House in Ireland
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Valerie Pakenham
Major-General Sir Edward M. Packenham 5 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Scott, Valerie Susan McNair (nee)
- Date de naissance
- 1939-11-13
- Date de décès
- 2023-01-22
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Hampshire, England, UK
- Cause du décès
- cancer
- Lieux de résidence
- Tullynally Castle, County Westmeath, Ireland
- Études
- Oxford University (St. Anne’s College)
Birkbeck College, University of London - Professions
- author
architecture writer
Historian - Relations
- Pakenham, Thomas Francis Dermot, 8th Earl of Longford (husband)
Pakenham, Eliza (daughter)
Pakenham, Frank, 7th Earl of Longford (father-in-law)
Longford, Elizabeth (mother-in-law)
Fraser, Antonia (sister-in-law)
Billington, Rachel (sister-in-law) (tout afficher 8)
Kazantzis, Judith (sister-in-law)
Kelly, Linda (sister) - Courte biographie
- Valerie McNair Scott was born to Major Ronald Guthrie McNair Scott and his wife the Hon. Mary Cecilia Berry. In 1964, she married Thomas Pakenham, later 8th Earl of Longford, an historian and arborist, making her Countess of Longford. Life in the Pakenham's ancestral home of Tullynally Castle -- a 19th-century Gothic Revival castle near the village of Castlepollard in County Westmeath, one of the Big Houses of Ireland -- provided her with material to write The Big House in Ireland (2002). Her reading of the many sporting and travel books amassed there by her husband's family over the years inspired her first book, The Noonday Sun: Edwardians in the Tropics (1986). She and her husband worked together on Dublin: A Traveller's Companion (2003). Her daughter Eliza Pakenham is also a writer.
Membres
Critiques
British upper class abroad, as discussed by Elspeth Huxley, Karin Blixen, and others
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 151
- Popularité
- #137,935
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 13
The editors grouped these literary snapshots into seven sections. Most of these are focused around neighborhoods in the city’s historic center and subdivided around landmarks, from the grandest public buildings to the most disreputable quarters. Here the momentous is interwoven with the mundane, as accounts of historic events are leavened with descriptions of social events and everyday life. Other sections focus on the area around Dublin, the city’s rich culture, and the dramatic events of the Easter Rising and the wars that followed. Taken together, they capture the drama of Dublin’s history, as well as provide a sense of how Dubliners lived their everyday lives.
Yet the strength of this anthology is not in its breadth of coverage but in the quality of the selections. Throughout its pages the Pakenhams demonstrate a judicious eye for the engaging story and the insightful anecdote. This is a book that entertains as well as informs, and I often found myself laughing as I read accounts of some of the more colorful figures that the metropolis has known. It is this quality which makes this book such an enjoyable way of discovering Dublin’s colorful legacy and the path it took to becoming the great city it is today.… (plus d'informations)