The pebbled shore: The memoirs of Elizabeth Longford - Hardcover

Longford, Elizabeth Harman Pakenham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297788639 ISBN 13: 9780297788638

Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986

Synopsis

Physical description: 351p. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Longford, Elizabeth 1906- - Biography.

About this title

About the Author:

The late Lady Longford is also the author of Sutton's 'Wellington' and 'Queen Victoria' (Pocket Biography series)

From Publishers Weekly:

This record of the first 60 years of Longford's life isas her renowned biographies of Queen Victoria and the Duke of Wellington would lead one to expectfluent, spritely, even toned and packed with sharp portraits of people (a veritable literary and political Who's Who, as it turns out). Of stimulating intellectual fare there is relatively little; Longford appears to be better at observing than analyzing. She describes her childhood (she was the daughter of doctors, and Joseph Chamberlain was her great-uncle); her merry years at Oxford, where she knew Hugh Gaitskell, Spender, Auden and many other future "eminents"; the bright social world of London's late 1920s and early 1930s, affectionately satirized by her friend Evelyn Waugh; stomping the provinces in the socialist cause; her marriage to Frank Packenham, Earl of Longford, later to be First Lord of the Admiralty; her conversion to Catholicism; and bringing up her eight children, of whom four became writers. (She also offers interesting thoughts on the art of biography.) A vivid picture of an extraordinarily fulfilled, fortunate and evidently happy life. Photos.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0297788639
• ISBN 13: 9780297788638
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 351