Stanley first Earl Baldwin

LB died quietly of old age after many years as an invalid; her son was Prime Minister at the time.

Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. When Betty was eleven...

LB 's son Stanley , who later became Prime Minister, was born.

Stanley Baldwin , later Prime Minister, and the poet and story-writer Rudyard Kipling , were both cousins of AT 's mother. Kipling entered fully into the playing of a long-running English Civil War game with...

One of Alice's sisters became a novelist and miscellaneous writer under her married name of Louisa Baldwin ; her husband was a wealthy manufacturer and their son Stanley Baldwin later became Prime Minister of Britain...

BC delighted in the company of the famous, beautiful, and charming. She frequented the Embassy Club , as did Michael Arlen , Cecil Beaton , Charlie Chaplin , and Gloria Vanderbilt , and she counted...

LMM was contacted by British prime minister Stanley Baldwin , who hoped to meet her on his upcoming trip to Canada.

Public praise of Precious Bane from former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin formed a basis for MW 's posthumous fame.

MW 's friend Caradoc Evans (who called her the greatest living woman novelist and understood how hungry she was for success) recorded her envy of an unnamed countryside woman novelist who was savouring her own...

This book too brought many letters of praise: from Rose Macaulay , Æ , Walter de la Mare , and Stanley Baldwin .

The work has been consistently admired. On its appearance the editor of The Spectator praised it for wonderful mastery of the borderland of the natural and the supernatural, and said it demonstrated MO

LB was fascinated by politics and followed the Conservative and patriotic line taken by her husband and son. Shortly before her death it was with enormous pleasure that she watched how her son succeeded in...

Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin caved in and announced in April of the next year that women would be granted the same voting privileges as men.

When Elvira elopes from her doctor husband, Paul, and from married life in London, it is to live in Paris with a student-poet, Oliver Fenton, who is younger than she and, like most of...

Cousin Honoré is set in Alsace. It begins in December 1918 and moves on to depict the condition of France on the brink of World War II The narrative moves through several other time-periods before...