Marriages Are Made in Bond Street - True Stories From a 1940s Marriage Bureau

Zusatztext A fascinating account Informationen zum Autor Penrose Halson's career encompassed teaching! writing! editing and! to her astonishment! becoming first lady Master of a City Livery Company. Her determined mother sent her to the Katharine Allen Marriage & Advice Bureau! of which she became proprietor in 1986. In 1992 it incorporated Heather Jenner's agency. Aged forty-eight she finally delighted her mother by marrying and lives in London with her husband. Klappentext In the hot spring of 1939! with the Second World War looming! two determined twenty-four-year-olds! Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver! decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London's Bond Street and set about the delicate business of match-making. Drawing on the bureau's extensive archives! Penrose Halson - who! many years later! found herself the proprietor of the bureau - tells their story! and those of their clients. We meet a remarkable cross-section of British society in the 1940s: gents with a 'merry twinkle'! potential fifth-columnists! nervous spinsters! isolated farmers seeking 'a nice quiet affekshunate girl' and girls looking 'exactly' like Greta Garbo and Vivien Leigh! all desperately longing to find The One. And thanks to Heather and Mary! they almost always did just that. A riveting glimpse of life and love during and after the war! Marriages Are Made in Bond Street is a heart-warming! touching and thoroughly absorbing account of a world gone by. A warm and touching account of the early days of one of Britain's most successful marriage bureaux. Zusammenfassung In the spring of 1939! with the Second World War looming! two determined twenty-four-year-olds! Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver! decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London's Bond Street and set about the delicate business of match-making. Drawing on the bureau's extensive archives! Penrose Halson - who many years later found herself the proprietor of the bureau - tells their story! and those of their clients. We meet a remarkable cross-section of British society in the 1940s: gents with a 'merry twinkle'! potential fifth-columnists! nervous spinsters! isolated farmers seeking 'a nice quiet affekshunate girl' and girls looking 'exactly' like Greta Garbo and Vivien Leigh! all desperately longing to find 'The One'. And thanks to Heather and Mary! they almost always did just that. A riveting glimpse of life and love during and after the war! Marriages Are Made in Bond Street is a heart-warming! touching and thoroughly absorbing account of a world gone by. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - i: PrologueChapter - 1: Audrey's Uncle Has a BrainwaveChapter - 2: No! It's Not a BrothelChapter - 3: Open for Matrimonial BusinessChapter - 4: The Capitulation of Cedric ThistletonChapter - 5: The Perfect Secretary and Other Learning CurvesChapter - 6: New Clients Wanted - But No Spies! PleaseChapter - 7: Mary Transforms MyrtleChapter - 8: The Mansion and the MatingChapter - 9: Mary's Bones and BabiesChapter - 10: While Bombs Fall the Bureau BoomsChapter - 11: Sex! Tragedy! Success and Bust BodicesChapter - 12: A Sideline and Two TriumphsChapter - 13: Other Agendas! Pastures NewChapter - 14: Heather Chooses Mating over ChickensChapter - 15: Picot and Dorothy Hold the FortChapter - 16: Peacetime ProblemsChapter - 17: Loneliness and HeartbreakChapter - 18: Mr Hedgehog! Journalists! a Tiny Baptist and LiesChapter - 19: A Chapter of Accidents and DesignsChapter - 20: Thanks to Uncle GeorgeSection - ii: AppendixSection - iii: Requirements of female clients 1939-c.1949Section - iv: Requirements of male clients 1939-c.1949Section - v: Interviewers' comments 1939-c.1949Acknowledgements - vi: AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements - vii: Picture Acknowledgements ...

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• Autori: Penrose Halson
• Editore: Macmillan
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 18 anni
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.03.2016
• EAN: 9781447282624
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-8262-4
• Pagine: 368
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Singoli rami economici, branche; 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Dating, relationships, living together & marriage, Social and cultural history, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships, Valentine?s Day, Valentine’s Day / Lovers’ days, Wedding / Marriage