Sarah Duchess of Malborough

David Green

Verlag: Heron Collector's Series, 1967

Beschreibung

Condition: (see pics.) Red leatherette boards with gilding to the cover and the spine. The author's signature is engraved on the front cover. Yellow ribbon marker. Small crease to the front cover. Synopsis: Sarah Jennings--who married the Churchill who became the Duke of Marlborough who built Blenheim against her wishes--lived from 1660 to 1774. Unspoiled by formal education and unblemished by any Freudian insights, she indefatigably committed to letters, daybooks and self-Justifying memoirs a thoroughly fascinating record of an energetic, contentious girl-into-woman-into-beldame. Green lets her speak for herself, providing a skeleton commentary for the long and marvellously mis-spelled passages from the Duchess. Sarah started at Court at fourteen and her long, terribly intense relationship with Queen Anne was not terminated until their middle age. It ended in an explosion of petty Jealousies and recriminations that left the dismally dull Queen to increasingly second-rate courtiers, while Sarah, who had apparently never returned the complex and undoubtedly wearisome devotion of her sovereign, resorted to spite, unbecoming rumour and humour. This characterised her latter days and forecast her relations within the large family of grandchildren she raised. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1647362828198

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Sarah Duchess of Malborough

Verlag: Heron Collector's Series

Erscheinungsdatum: 1967

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: Special Edition