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The mistresses of Cliveden / Natalie Livingstone.
Van Pelt Library DA28.35.A1 L58 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Livingstone, Natalie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shrewsbury, Anna Maria Brudenell Talbot, Countess of, 1642-1702.
- Shrewsbury, Anna Maria Brudenell Talbot.
- Villiers, Elizabeth, Countess of Orkney, 1657?-1733.
- Villiers, Elizabeth.
- Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772.
- Augusta.
- Sutherland, Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower, Duchess of, 1806-1868.
- Sutherland, Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower.
- Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964.
- Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor.
- Cliveden (England).
- England--Biography.
- England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 494 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- On jacket: Mistresses of Cliveden : three centuries of scandal, power and intrigue
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hutchinson, 2015.
- Summary:
- "From its dawn in the 1660s to its twilight in the 1960s, Cliveden was an emblem of elite misbehaviour and intrigue. Conceived by the Duke of Buckingham as a retreat for his scandalous affair with Anna-Maria, Countess of Shrewsbury, the house later served as the backdrop for the Profumo Affair, which would bring down a government and change the course of British history. In the three hundred years between the Countess and Christine Keeler, the house was occupied by a dynasty of remarkable women: Elizabeth Villiers, an intellectual who brokered the rise and fall of governments; Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, a minor German royal who almost became queen of England; Harriet Duchess of Sutherland, the glittering society hostess turned political campaigner; and Nancy Astor, the consummate controversialist who became the first woman to take a seat in parliament. Under the direction of these women, Cliveden provided a stage for political plots and artistic premieres, hosted grieving monarchs and republican radicals, was idealised as a family home, and maligned as a threat to national security"--Cover jacket flap.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780091954529
- 0091954525
- OCLC:
- 913794058
- Publisher Number:
- 99963694947
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