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Pub. Date
[1969-71]
Description
She was the mother of Winston Churchill, but also a provocative and desirable woman. From her Brooklyn roots to the very heights of British society and power, Jennie was the guiding force behind her husband, Lord Randolph, shaping him into one of the most important men in the British Empire
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married impoverished, British gentry at the turn of the twentieth century - the real women who inspired Downton Abbey. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so...
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Pub. Date
2000.
Description
"The author tells the story of the beautiful Langhorne sisters, who lived at the pinnacle of high and powerful society from the end of the Civil War through the Second World War. Making their way across two continents, they left in their wakes rich husbands, fame, adoration, and scandal.".
"Lizzie, Irene, Nancy, Phyllis, and Nora were born in Virginia to a family impoverished by the Civil War. Their father remade his fortune by collaborating with...
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