Literary Studies, Biography, English History and Studies, Women's Literature

Jennie: The life of Lady Randolph Churchill

LESLIE, Anita

Hutchinson

WHAT WOULD THE small group of people known as the Edwardians have thought if they could have read today's attempts to reconstruct the complicated game of their love life! They might be indignant at revelations and yet unable to resist contradicting errors. I must be among the few to whom a delicious grandmother—American and therefore slightly an outsider—recounted the intricate rules of the Prince of Wales's set before 1900. The First World War swept away need for decorum and the Second ended strict chaperonage of girls and the stigma of divorce. Now the Pill has completely destroyed audaciousness in illegal love-making. The mystery and the danger are gone, pent-up emotions freed. Hemlines may rise and fall but moral restraint has been thrown to the four winds. How difficult it is for this classless generation to visualize a world where so many automatic restrictions were in force; where a well-brought-up girl was never allowed to be alone a man even for half an hour in the drawing-room; and where all women expected all men to make up to them the instant they found themselves alone. That was the convention of the time. All males were in search of prey. All females must be protected from what was called then, but not now, deflowering. The amorous adventures described in this book occurred over a period of about fifty years—from 1860 when Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, stepped into the social scene as a handsome young rip until his death in 1910 as the portly Edward V Il.

Edwardians in love

History

Europe

Cousin Clare: The Tempestuous Career of Clare Sheridan

Cousin Clare: The tempestuous career of Clare Sheridan

Cousin Randolph: Randolph Churchill

David&Charles

Arrow Books

Francis Chichester

Hutchinson : Hodder and Stoughton

An intimate account of the scandalous, romantic escapades of Victorian England

The Marlborough House Set

DOUBLEDAY

"She was beautiful, fearsome, an English aristocrat, a communist spy, a loose women, a doting mother, an impossible parent, an inspired artist, a respected professional journalist and a middling novelist".

Clare Sheridan

Jennie Jerome, the dark, decisive beauty from New York who married the brilliant, unruly son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough in 1874, and who subsequently gave birth to one of the greatest leaders the free world has ever known, was a remarkable person in her own right. For the story of Jennie is an important aid in beginning to understand her world famous son. From his mother, Winston Churchill undoubtedly drew the physical and moral courage, the formidable stamina, the bulldag tenacity and the strong sense of both duty and destiny which sustained him all of his life, and which enabled him to inspire his countrymen to undreamed of heights when they stood alone as the saviors of civilization in 1940. Here is the memorable bioghraphy of an outstanding woman.

Jennie, The Mother of Winston Churchill

Biographies & Memoirs

George Mann Books

Francis Chichester: A biography

Walker Co

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Jennie: The life of Lady Randolph Churchill

Edwardians in love

Cousin Clare: The tempestuous career of Clare Sheridan

Cousin Randolph: Randolph Churchill

Edwardians in love

Francis Chichester

The Marlborough House Set

Clare Sheridan

Jennie, The Mother of Winston Churchill

Francis Chichester: A biography