Brooke, Sylvia. Queen of the Head Hunters. William Morrow and Company.
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Publishing | Lady Cynthia Asquith | LCA
produced lives of two members of the royal family. The Duchess of York (about the woman later much loved as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) appeared in spring 1928, and God Save the King... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Brett | Sylvia, Lady Brooke, recalled her father as one to whom nobody who was not somebody meant a thing. Brooke, Sylvia. Queen of the Head Hunters. William Morrow and Company. 13 |
Reception | Ann Bridge | The book made immediate friends in high places. A Yugoslav shipowner's wife gave a copy to Princess Marina
, Born Princess Marina of Greece, she married the Duke of Kent, a younger son of George... |
Occupation | Isak Dinesen | While working very hard at the management of her plantation, she also found time for big-game hunting (some Africans called her Lioness Blixen). Additionally, she enjoyed practising medicine among her farm workers, somewhat in... |
Textual Features | Isak Dinesen | Though far less well-known than Out of Africa (which was also written after leaving Africa, though after a shorter interval of time), it is just as evocative. Stambaugh quotes from it: A community of but... |
Friends, Associates | Rosita Forbes | In FinlandRF
met the national hero Marshal Mannerheim
. Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell. 302 |
Reception | Rosita Forbes | Signatures were gathered for a presentation volume for RF
; early signatories were the Prince of Wales
and the Prime Minister
. The presentation was made at a reception attended by peers, peeresses, and bishops... |
politics | H. D. | Intensely political about issues involving war and pacifism, HD nevertheless limited her interest to particular areas of politics only. A few years before this she had been deeply invested in the British royal family, putting... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
's gifts as a letter-writer matched her talent for friendship; she delighted in circulating information and the wildest rumours as well. Elizabeth Northcote, Countess of Iddesleigh, et al. “List of Books by Mrs Belloc Lowndes, Foreword”. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947, edited by Susan Lowndes Marques and Susan Lowndes Marques, Chatto and Windus, pp. prelims, 1 - 3. 2 |
Performance of text | Ngaio Marsh | NM
's mother
played the witch, and her grandfather Edward William Seager
made a present to her of two theatrical treasures: a book entitled Actors of the [Nineteenth] Century by Frederic White
and a shirt... |
Friends, Associates | L. M. Montgomery | Baldwin declared himself a huge fan at festivities in Toronto that included the Prince of Wales
and Prince George
. A later British prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald
, claimed that he had read all of... |
Textual Production | Caroline Norton | CN
expressed her views of society and politics in a long poem addressed to the baby future king
, entitled The Child of the Islands. Athenæum. J. Lection. 911 (1845): 351 |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | Years later it was rumoured that in 1914 SP
had planned to kidnap the Prince of Wales
. In 1932 a former Scotland Yard detective was set to publish a book entitled From Information Received... |
Textual Features | Berta Ruck | BR
structures this work by association. Her first chapter begins with the abdication of Edward VIII
and moves back from that to his Investiture as Prince of Wales on 14 June 1911. Her second is... |
Residence | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | When first married, CADS
lived in a luxurious home at 2 Bennet Street in London. Her husband was often called out suddenly to nearby St James's Palace to attend on members of the royal... |
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