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Book Description Trade Paperback. 1st Edition. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 376 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Seller Inventory # 323340
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 376 pages. Writing on cover.Margot Asquith was perhaps the mo st daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British his tory. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, sh e transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and inte llectual salon. Yet her last five years at Number 10 were a perio d of intense emotional and political turmoil in her private and p ublic life. In 1912, when Anne de Courcy's book opens, rumblings of discontent and cries for social reform were encroaching on all sides - from suffragettes, striking workers and Irish nationalis ts. Against this background of a government beset with troubles, the Prime Minister fell desperately in love with his daughter's b est friend, Venetia Stanley; to complicate matters, so did his Pr ivate Secretary. Margot's relationship with her husband was alrea dy bedevilled by her stepdaughter's jealous, almost incestuous ad oration of her father. The outbreak of the First World War only h eightened these swirling tensions within Downing Street.Drawing o n unpublished material from personal papers and diaries, Anne de Courcy vividly recreates this extraordinary time when the Prime M inister's residence was run like an English country house, with s ocialising taking precedence over politics, love letters written in the cabinet room and gossip and state secrets exchanged over t he bridge table. By 1916, when Asquith was forced out of office, everything had changed. For the country as a whole, for those in power, for a whole stratum of society, but especially for the Asq uiths and their circle, it was the end of an era. Life inside Dow ning Street would never be the same again. Seller Inventory # 622r
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. * PUBLISHER: WEIDENFIELD & NICOLSON YEAR:2014 * ISBN/SBN: 9780297869863 * No OF PAGES: 434 * CONDITION: USED - GOOD *OTHER: *PROOF* THE BOOK IS IN GOOD CONDITION. THE CORNERS AND EDGES ARE SLIGHTLY BUMPED. BINDING IS FIRM. THE PAGES ARE GENERALLY CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF AN INTERESTING BOOK. Seller Inventory # 25.02.23/DT/523/BOXNW20/AO8-2-23
Book Description Pictorial Soft Cover. Condition: As New. First Edition. 376 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. Seller Inventory # 166307
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