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Author
Treger, Louisa, author.
Title
The dragon lady / Louisa Treger.
Publication Info.
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Caravel, 2019.
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Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department
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313 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"Opening with the shooting of Lady Virginia 'Ginie' Courtauld in her tranquil garden in 1950s Rhodesia, The Dragon Lady tells Ginie's extraordinary story, so called for the exotic tattoo snaking up her leg. From the glamorous Italian Riviera before the Great War to the Art Deco glory of Eltham Palace in the thirties, and from the secluded Scottish Highlands to segregated Rhodesia in the fifties, the narrative spans enormous cultural and social change. Lady Virginia Courtauld was a boundary-breaking, colourful and unconventional person who rejected the submissive role women were expected to play. Ostracised by society for being a foreign divorcée at the time of Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson, Ginie and her second husband, Stephen Courtauld, leave the confines of post-war Britain to forge a new life in Rhodesia, only to find that being progressive liberals during segregation proves mortally dangerous. Many people had reason to dislike Ginie, but who had reason enough to pull the trigger?"--Publisher description.
Subject
Peirano, Virginia, 1885-1972 -- Fiction.
Divorced women -- Fiction.
Liberalism -- Rhodesia -- Fiction.
Segregation -- Fiction.
Attempted murder -- Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Rhodesia and Nyasaland -- Fiction.
FICTION -- Biographical.
Self-actualization (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst01111481
Segregation. (OCoLC)fst01111205
Liberalism. (OCoLC)fst00997183
Divorced women. (OCoLC)fst00895945
Attempted murder. (OCoLC)fst00820786
Biographical fiction. (OCoLC)fst00832112
Africa -- Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
(OCoLC)fst01209420
Genre/Form
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
Biographical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726537
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Other Form:
Ebook version : 9781448217397
ISBN
1448217261 (hardback)
9781448217267 (hardback)
9781448217397 (ePub ebook)
9781448217458 (paperback)
1448217458 (paperback)
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