The Rainbow Comes and Goes (1) (Lady Diana Cooper’s Autobiography) - Softcover

Cooper, Diana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784873039 ISBN 13: 9781784873035

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2019

Synopsis

Lady Diana Cooper was a star of the early 20th stage, screen and social scene. This first installment of her sparkling autobiography tells of her upbringing, her beautiful artistic mother and aristocratic father, her debut into high society and the glittering parties—"dancing and extravagance and lashing of wine, and charades and moonlit balconies and kisses"—which were interrupted with the outbreak of World War I. This volume ends with Diana's marriage to the "love of her life," diplomat and politician Duff Cooper.

About this title

About the Author:

Lady Diana Cooper (August 1892-1986) was a society darling, actress and wife of politican Alfred Duff Cooper, DSO.

Review:

"A delightful memoir" - Juliet Nicolson - Sunday Telegraph Magazine

"Poetic, idiosyncratic, poignant, funny, unflagging, scintillating, simple, stylish; not the book of the season, or of the bedside table; a book...to be read and reread and loved for a lifetime." - Evelyn Waugh -

"Lady Diana was no ordinary upper-class English rose: She was perhaps the first person from such a background to go on the stage, wowing audiences on both sides of the Atlantic" - - Washington Times

"Admired and adored as a classic beauty and first-division socialite during the frivolous Twenties and Thirties, Lady Diana was one of the last survivors of the set which revolved around the Prince of Wales and Mrs Simpson" - - The Times

"One of the glittering social personalities of an era of wealth and privilege, combining as she did exceptional grace and beauty with verve and a nature of deep and intense feeling" - - The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1784873039
• ISBN 13: 9781784873035
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288