A fascinating but forgotten figure. She has been celebrated in countless memoirs but this is the first biography of her Her life personifies the last epoch of aristocratic glamour, elegance and power that ended in 1914 Also reveals the hypocrisy and manipulation behind the life of an Edwardian lady A life seared by personal tragedy and grief Based on confidential family archives and letters
Richard Davenport-Hines was born in 1953. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society, he is a past winner of the Wolfson Prize for History and Biography. He has most recently edited Hugh Trevor-Roper's LETTERS FROM OXFORD for publication in July 2006. He lives in London.
'Richard Davenport-Hines's stirring history of Ettie Fane, a woman of sophistication and beauty seemingly blighted with bad luck. The picture of English aristocratic determination, she remains uncowed to the end.' VOGUE 'as Richard Davenport-Hines demonstrates triumphantly in this superb biography, Ettie Desborough's life is a compelling and moving story of love and loss as well as an important slice of social history, and deserves to be widely read... The book is a joy to read, sparkling and fresh and full of good things. A real delight.' -- Jane Ridley LITERARY REVIEW 'this intelligent and well-written book... provides a rich and satisfying portrait of an age that now seems infinitely remote' THE SPECTATOR
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