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Chargement... Dark Lady: Winston Churchill's Mother and Her World (2006)par Charles Higham
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Lazily written, with little regard for facts. As a case in point, Jennie's sister-in-law, Lily, Duchess of Marlborough, inherited wealth through her first husband, who was known to be close to his father, and who, in a nasty will dispute after his early death was unjustly accused of having been mentally incompetent to make a will. By the time Higham was through with him, he was a cretin having a homosexual affair with his father. Not worth bothering with. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In this sensational new book, bestselling author Charles Higham draws from previously overlooked sources in America and Britain to tell the fascinating story of Jennie Jerome, mother of Winston Churchill -- feminist, advocate of Irish independence, and notoriously promiscuous society belle. It charts her luxurious New York upbringing, eyebrow-raising entry into the British aristocracy through marriage to Lord Randolph Churchill, her endless line of liaisons with much younger men and a very different sort of affair in the highest of places -- with the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII (one of many kings and princes to win her affection). Long before women had the vote, Jennie broke the rules by campaigning in elections for her husband, Lord Randolph Churchill. A staunch freethinker, she edited her own magazine, fought for Protestant interests in Ireland and sailed a hospital ship to South Africa, where she risked her life in the Boer War. Passionately in love withlife, expressive of her sexuality when women were supposed to hide it, beautiful and independent minded, Jennie Churchill was decades ahead of her time. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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