A Book of Secrets - Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers

Informationen zum Autor Besides the Lives of Augustus John, Bernard Shaw and Lytton Strachey (which was filmed as Carrington ), Michael Holroyd has written two volumes of memoirs, Basil Street Blues and Mosaic. His most recent book, A Strange Eventful History , winner of the James Tait Black Prize, was a biography of two great theatrical dynasties which included Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, and her son Edward Gordon Craig. He has been president of the Royal Society of Literature and is the first non-fiction writer to have been awarded the British Literature Prize. He lives in London and Somerset with his wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble. Klappentext A Book of Secrets is a masterfully atmospheric treasure-trove of hidden lives uncelebrated achievements and family mysteries. Acclaimed biographer Michael Holroyd peers into dusty corners to bring a company of unknown women into the light; Alice Keppel was the mistress of both the second Lord Grimthorpe and the Prince of Wales; Eve Fairfax was Lord Grimthorpe's abandoned fiancée and sometime muse of Auguste Rodin; and the novelist Violet Trefusis was the lover of Vita Sackville-West. Taking the reader on a journey of discovery from Ravello to Paris from Kirkstall Grange in Yorkshire to Vita Sackville-West's home at Knole A Book of Secrets lucidly gives voice to fragile human connections. Zusammenfassung Taking the reader on a journey of discovery from Ravello to Paris, from Kirkstall Grange in Yorkshire to Vita Sackville-West's home at Knole, A Book of Secrets lucidly gives voice to fragile human connections.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Holroyd
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.11.2011
• EAN: 9780099548942
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954894-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Vintage; Vintage
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Italy, Family & relationships, Relationships and families: advice and issues, vita sackville west; bloomsbury group