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Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes - Softcover

MacCarthy, Fiona

 
9780571228607: Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0571228607 ISBN 13: 9780571228607
Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2007

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Fiona MacCarthy's Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes is a wonderful snapshot of a moment in history - the final swansong for the debutantes and an era of aristocratic British social history.

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A former Guardian critic, Fiona MacCarthy established herself as one of the leading writers of biography in Britain with her widely acclaimed Eric Gill (1989). Her next book, William Morris (1994), won the Wolfson History Prize. Her Byron: Life and Legend (2002) has been described as 'one of the great literary biographies of our time'. She also received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Last Pre-Raphaelite (2011), and was awarded the OBE in 2009.
She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art. She was married to David Mellor, one of Britain's leading industrial designers. She died in 2020 at the age of 80.

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Verlag
Faber & Faber
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0571228607
ISBN 13 
9780571228607
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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