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Item Details
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CLARISSA EDEN
A MEMOIR - FROM CHURCHILL TO EDEN |
| By: |
Clarissa Eden, Cate Haste (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0753824310 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780753824313 |
| Publisher: |
ORION PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2008 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
A memoir by Clarissa Eden, born a Churchill and a Prime Minister's wife at the age of 34. |
| Synopsis: |
In 1955, at the astonishingly young age of 34, Clarissa Eden entered No. 10 Downing Street as the wife of the new Prime Minister, Anthony Eden. A renowned beauty, she was at home with her mother's Liberal intellectual circle, and mixed in her youth with the pillars of Oxford's academic community. According to Antonia Fraser, she was 'the don's delight because she was beautiful and extremely intellectual'. Her close circle of friends included some of the leading cultural figures of the twentieth century: Cecil Beaton, Evelyn Waugh, Orson Welles among them. Her observations and insights into these men and their world provide a unique window into the mid 20th century. As the spouse of the most important man in Britain, the hostess at No. 10 and Chequers, Clarissa Eden was inevitably privy to a multitude of top-level secrets. The Suez crisis and Eden's ill health meant that she shared just four years of Anthony's political life and eighteen months as Prime Minister's wife. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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