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02448aam a2200421Ii 4500 001 1D6E415CC95911E9B8A3A61497128E48 003 SILO 005 20190828010018 008 180827t20192019enk 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1448217458 020 $a 9781448217458 020 $a 9781448217267 020 $a 1448217261 035 $a (OCoLC)1049785726 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d ATNSH $d SOM $d OCLCF $d TOH $d NZAUC $d Z@L $d UAP $d JNE $d YDXIT $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a f-mw--- $a f-za--- $a f-mw--- 050 4 $a PR6120.R44 $b D73 2019 082 04 $a 823/.92 $2 23 084 $a 823.92 $2 z 100 1 $a Treger, Louisa, $e author. 245 14 $a The dragon lady / $c Louisa Treger. 264 1 $a London ; $b Bloomsbury Caravel, $c 2019. 300 $a 313 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "Opening with the shooting of Lady Virginia 'Ginie' Courtauld in her tranquil garden in 1950s Rhodesia, The Dragon Lady tells Ginie's extraordinary story, so called for the exotic tattoo snaking up her leg. From the glamorous Italian Riviera before the Great War to the Art Deco glory of Eltham Palace in the thirties, and from the secluded Scottish Highlands to segregated Rhodesia in the fifties, the narrative spans enormous cultural and social change. Lady Virginia Courtauld was a boundary-breaking, colourful and unconventional person who rejected the submissive role women were expected to play. Ostracised by society for being a foreign divorceÌe at the time of Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson, Ginie and her second husband, Stephen Courtauld, leave the confines of post-war Britain to forge a new life in Rhodesia, only to find that being progressive liberals during segregation proves mortally dangerous. Many people had reason to dislike Ginie, but who had reason enough to pull the trigger?"--Publisher description. 600 10 $a Peirano, Virginia, $d 1885-1972 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Divorced women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Liberalism $z Rhodesia $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Segregation $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Attempted murder $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Self-actualization (Psychology) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Rhodesia and Nyasaland $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Biographical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l ZXPC675 $d 20210417032002.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190828010116.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1D6E415CC95911E9B8A3A61497128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search