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Author:

Renton, Claudia, author.

Title:

Those wild Wyndhams : three sisters at the heart of power / by Claudia Renton.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

458 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Windham family.
Elcho, Mary,--1862-1937.
Adeane, Madeline,--1869-1941.
Grey, Pamela,--1871-1928.
Sisters--England--Biography.
Aristocracy (Social class)--England--History--19th century.
Aristocracy (Social class)--England--History--20th century.
Biographies.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book." Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-431) and index.

Contents:

"Worse than 100 boys" -- Wilbury -- "The little hunter" -- Honeymoon -- The gang -- Clouds -- The birth of the souls -- The summer of 1887 -- Mananai -- Conflagration -- The season of 1889 -- The mad and their keepers -- Crisis -- India -- Rumor -- Egypt -- The Florentine drama -- Glen -- The portrait, war and death -- Plucking triumph from disaster -- The 1900 election -- Growing families -- The souls in power -- Pamela at Wilsford -- Mr. Balfour's poodle -- 1910 -- Revolution? -- 1911-1914 -- MCMXIV -- The front -- The remainder -- The grey dawn -- The end.

ISBN:

1101874295
9781101874295

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1002291502

LCCN:

2017050326

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