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9780786718894 | Da Capo Pr, December 28, 2006, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Describes the life of Jennie Jerome, mother of Winston Churchill, and her rise through New York society to become the wife of a British aristocrat.
9781852273453 | Ebury Pr, March 9, 2006, cover price $31.70 | About this edition: Talks about the tempestuous life of controversial American society girl and mother of Winston Churchill, Jennie Jerome - feminist, advocate of Irish independence, and, notoriously promiscuous.
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9781402209727 | Reprint edition (Sourcebooks Inc, October 1, 2007), cover price $25.99
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9781780730691 | Colourpoint Books, March 19, 2016, cover price $8.95
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9781250071316 | Thomas Dunne Books, April 12, 2016, cover price $27.99
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9781250115935 | Reprint edition (Thomas Dunne Books, April 11, 2017), cover price $16.99
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9781427281265 | Macmillan Audio, April 12, 2016, cover price $44.99
Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry. The family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her enthralling memoirs she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong liberal leanings, and a mother who died young from cancer. Her personal account of marrying Mark Birley at 20, the creation of Annabel's Club in Berkeley Square, and then her affair and later marriage to entrepreneur Sir James Goldsmith, enthralled many readers. The club was a huge success from the beginning and remains so into its fourth decade. Annabel had three children with Goldsmith, including Jemima, Zac and, Ben, who married into the Rothschild family. But tragedy was never far away: Rupert, her eldest son, died in an accident, and Goldsmith died from cancer after financing a campaign of candidates opposed to the John Major line on the EU at the 1997 general election. This book elegantly describes, in intimate and perceptive essays, pen-portraits of some of the extraordinary figures that entered the Birley and Goldsmith circlesâamong them, Lord Lambton, Patrick Plunket, John Aspinall, Geoffrey Keating, Lord Lucan, Dominic Elwes and Claus von Bulow. The richness of the narrative is in the particular detail and observation which only a true insider can record.
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9780297854517 | Orion Pub Co, January 1, 2010, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry.
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9780753823385 | Reprint edition (Phoenix, April 1, 2011), cover price $15.95
9780297859864 | Orion Pub Co, February 1, 2010, cover price $18.95
9780195202021, titled "Sex in the World's Religions" | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1980, cover price $15.95 | also contains Sex in the World''s Religions
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9781443847353 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, June 1, 2013, cover price $75.95
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9781443856188 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, April 1, 2014, cover price $56.95
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9781408187364 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, January 27, 2015, cover price $25.00
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9780195202021, titled "Sex in the World's Religions" | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1980, cover price $15.95 | also contains No Invitation Required: The Pelham Cottage Years
Product Description: Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was born, ""How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl."" Deborah's effervescent memoir Wait for Me! chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood in the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her controversially political sister Unity in 1937, to her marriage to the second son of the Duke of Devonshire...read more
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9781452630267 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 22, 2010), cover price $95.99 | About this edition: Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was born, ""How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl.
Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl." Deborah's effervescent memoir Wait for Me! chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood in the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her controversially political sister Unity in 1937, to her marriage to the second son of the Duke of Devonshire. Her life would change utterly with his unexpected inheritance of the title and vast estates after the wartime death of his brother, who had married Kick Kennedy, the beloved sister of John F. Kennedy. Her friendship with that family would last through triumph and tragedy. With its intense warmth and charm, Wait for Me! is a unique portrait of an age and an unprecedented look at the rhythms of life inside one of the great aristocratic families of England. It is irresistible listening and will join the shelf of Mitford classics to delight audiences for years to come.
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9780374207687 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 9, 2010, cover price $28.00
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9780312610647 | Picador USA, September 13, 2011, cover price $20.00
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9781452600260 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 22, 2010), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl.
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9781848544147 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, September 9, 2010, cover price $25.35
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9781452650265 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 22, 2010), cover price $29.99
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9781848541900 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, September 9, 2010, cover price $32.75
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