Edition |
First United States edition. |
Description |
x, 458 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm |
Note |
"This is a Borzoi Book." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-431) and index. |
Contents |
"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 -- Rumor -- 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 |
Windham family.
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Elcho, Mary, 1862-1937.
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Adeane, Madeline, 1869-1941.
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Grey, Pamela, 1871-1928.
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Adeane, Madeline, 1869-1941. (OCoLC)fst01947616
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Elcho, Mary, 1862-1937. (OCoLC)fst01947783
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Grey, Pamela, 1871-1928. (OCoLC)fst01947836
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Windham family. (OCoLC)fst00217289
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Sisters -- England -- Biography.
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Aristocracy (Social class) -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Aristocracy (Social class) -- England -- History -- 20th century.
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Aristocracy (Social class) (OCoLC)fst00814463
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Sisters. (OCoLC)fst01119758
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England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
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Chronological Term |
1800-1999
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Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Biographies.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Renton, Claudia. Those wild Wyndhams. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018 9781101874301 (DLC) 2017059932 |
ISBN |
9781101874295 (hardcover) |
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1101874295 (hardcover) |
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