Violet : the life and loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse / Jessica Douglas-Home
1996, 1st edition. London : Harvill. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #426823
ISBN: 1860462693
Physical description; x, 342 p., [32]p of plates : ill, facsims, music, ports ; 20 cm. Notes; Discography: p328-330. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Family secrets -- I can never marry Lord Gage -- An extraordinary marriage -- Gordon knew they would seldom be alone -- A king among men -- More daughter than pupil -- Ménage a cinq -- Golden years before the war -- To the trenches -- Death, capture, return --Society in upheaval -- How can you live in a house like this? -- Murder in the black mountains -- Artists of the golden valley -- Riches in abundance -- Wrath and war -- My poor broken limbs -- Late-flowering passions -- Time will run back and fetch the age of gold -- Family trees -- Appendices -- Discography -- Bibliography -- Index. Subjects; Gordon Woodhouse, Violet 1871-1948. Woodhouse, Violet Gordon. Sitwell, Edith 1887-1964. Sitwell, Osbert 1892-1969. Sitwell, Sacheverell 1897-1988. Sitwell family. Harpsichordists Great Britain ; Biography. Women musicians Great Britain ; Biography. Harpsichordists England Biography. Musicians England Biography.
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