Mary Curzon
Mary Curzon
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The daughter of a self-made American man, Mary Leiter was the star of Washington and New York by the age of 20, and then went on to conquer London and Paris. As the wife of Lord Curzon, she became Vicereine of India and an intimate of leading members of the British Cabinet until her early death.
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Mary Curzon by Nigel Nicolson
MARY CURZON is a portrait of three different societies, American, English and Indian, at the turn of the century. But most of all it is the emotional and personal tale of the deepening relationship between a lovely American girl and an Englishman of exraordinary intellect and power.
Nigel Nicolson is the son of the politician, diarist and biographer Harold Nicolson, and the poet and writer Vita Sackville-West who restored Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, now a property of the National Trust. The family were closefriends with Virginia and Leonard Woolf. Nicolson was the co-founder of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, was a Conservative MP in the 1950s and is the author of
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| ISBN 13 | 9780297819110 |
| ISBN 10 | 0297819119 |
| Title | Mary Curzon |
| Author | Nigel Nicolson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 1997-01-27 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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