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The bolter / Frances Osborne.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating CT788.S118 O83 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Osborne, Frances.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sackville, Idina.
- Women--England--Biography.
- Women.
- Women--Sexual behavior--England--History--20th century.
- Colonists--Kenya--Biography.
- Colonists.
- Women colonists--Kenya--Biography.
- Women colonists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 300 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
- Summary:
- "The story of the wild, beautiful, fearless IDINA SACKVILLE, descendant of one of England's oldest families, who went off to KENYA in search of adventure and became known as the high priestess of the scandalous "HAPPY VALLEY SET"--jacket cover.
- Contents:
- The marriages of Idina Sackville
- Claridge's Hotel, Mayfair, 1934
- Edwardian London
- Kenya, Happy Valley.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : Virago, 2008.
- "This is a Borzoi Book"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-280) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert E. Linck.
- ISBN:
- 9780307270146
- 0307270149
- OCLC:
- 264044158
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