Author: Fox, James
Title: The Langhorne Sisters.
Description: London, Granta Books, 1998. hardcover with dustjacket, XIII, 578 pp.. (Family saga centering around five American sisters; one of them, Nancy, married to Waldorf Astor, was to sit as the first women in the British Parlement and became one of the most striking society figures in Britain; she was supposed to be a central personality in the so-called, but actually inexistant, Cliveden Set who propagated appeasement with Nazi-Germany; the author is a grandson to one of his characters, thus having had access to family papers, parental oral history sources and family gossip) (see also our no. 006971) ISBN: 1862070717

Keywords: Great-Britain, history, biography, Nancy Astor, family Langhorne, Joyce Grenfell 1862070717


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