Through these remarkable diaries and letters, published for the first time, the decade before the first world war- is seen from a unique ringside seat, social as well as political. Violet Bonham Carter is revealed as a diary and letter writer par excellence, recording a way of life in a world that was soon to disappear for ever. The d/j has crimping to its edges and light wear to the head of the spine. A good. clean and tight copy.

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Title

Lantern Slides: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1904-1914

Publisher

Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, UK

Publication Date

1996

Language

English

ISBN 10

0297816497

ISBN 13

9780297816492

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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Inside British politics and upper class social life in the decade before the first world war-by the daughter of the Prime Minister and Liberal leader,H H Asquith. Hitherto and revealing unpublished letters and diaries of a Prime Minister's influential daughter.

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Bonham Carter (1887-1969) was the eldest daughter of H.H. Asquith, the Liberal leader who became prime minister of England. This is the first of a planned trilogy covering her diaries and letters, edited by her eldest son, a publisher and politician, and Pottle, a research fellow at Wolfson College. The diary begins in 1904, when Violet was 17 years old and visiting Paris. She was presented at court in 1905 and "came of age" in 1908. Entries feature her travels to Italy, Egypt, and America (where she dined with Theodore Roosevelt) and dinner conversations with Winston Churchill; the diary ends the year before her marriage to Maurice Bonham Carter, her father's principal private secretary. Some entries speak in the voice of a debutante evaluating the menu and guests at a dinner party, while in others the voice of a young woman mature beyond her years offers great insight into the world of British politics, with rich details about Edwardian society. Highly recommended for academic history collections.?Lois Cherepon, St. John's Univ., Staten Island, N.Y.
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