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Those wild Wyndhams : three sisters at the heart of power
- Author
- Renton, Claudia, author.
- Title
- Those wild Wyndhams : three sisters at the heart of power / Claudia Renton.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- First United States edition.
- Published
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
- Description
- x, 458 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
- Notes
- "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-431) and index.
- Contents
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- "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
- Rumour
- 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.
- Summary
- Traces the opulent, idiosyncratic lives of Mary, Madeline, and Pamela Wyndham against a backdrop of cultural and political life in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
- Subject headings
- Windham family. Elcho, Mary, 1862-1937. Adeane, Madeline, 1869-1941. Grey, Pamela, 1871-1928. Aristocracy (Social class)--England--History--19th century. Sisters--England--Biography. Aristocracy (Social class)--England--History--20th century.
- Genre heading
- Biographies. Biography. History. Biographies. Nonfiction.
- ISBN
- 9781101874295 (hardcover) 1101874295 9781101874301