Lady Pamela Berry : passion, politics and power / by her daughter, Harriet Cullen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cullen, Harriet, author.

Vickers, Hugo, author of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berry, Pamela, 1914-1982.

Berry, Pamela.

Socialites--England--Biography.

Socialites.

Great Britain--History--20th century.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 272 pages, 16 numbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Passion, politics and power

Place of Publication:

Lewes : Unicorn, an imprint of Unicorn Publishing Group, 2025.

Summary:

"This is a biography lightened with the intimate tone of a social memoir, about a woman who was both a bystander and protagonist through some fifty years of twentieth-century British history. Pamela Berry was the daughter of the famous and brilliant self-made politician and lawyer, F.E.Smith, the first Earl of Birkenhead, and married the son of another self-made buccaneer, William Berry from south Wales, who became Viscount Camrose and the owner of a group of national newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph. She had an unusually glamorous and precocious upbringing, spoiled by her adoring father and much photographed by Cecil Beaton, and in her prime used her position as a newspaper proprietor's wife to become the most famous political and press hostess of her generation, harnessing her beauty and wit to influence the successive governments of the day"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Foreword / [by Hugo Vickers]

The last walk

The it girl

Socialite on slender means

Marriage, motherhood and war

The post-war years

Muggeridge and Suez

American interlude

The redhead and the hostess

In the thick of it

Family interlude

The museum years

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781916846661

1916846661

OCLC:

1463664168

Publisher Number:

CIPO000209529