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Chargement... The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (1962)par Margot Asquith
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After Asquith's first wife died, he surprised everyone by wooing and marrying Margot Tennant, a free spirited egoist, twenty years his junior. This is her scandalous autobiography. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Vol II is better focused on providing portraits of major political figure of her day, extensive anecdotes about foxhunting, her first serious romance, and an overview of her courtship and early married years to her husband, who became Prime Minister. Nothing really insightful as a character study or assessment of her period of British history and government here, although she was a keenly interested political animal herself.
But several very honest character self-portraits, conversational anecdotes, and some clear-eyed assessments of several major players in late Victorian English politics and letters, including Henry James, the Prince of Wales, and prominent Oxford tutors can be found.
This autobiographical sketch, really, is interesting in its way, but is not well written, comprehensive, or cohesive. However, what does come through is Margot Asquith had what even today would be considered a rather modern personality and moderately liberal inclination combined with a sincere religious belief. She is undoubtedly a woman whose greatest talent was in being an excellent friend, an uncommon quality in any time. ( )