Ettie: The Intimate Life and Dauntless Spirit of Lady Desborough

Ettie: The Intimate Life and Dauntless Spirit of Lady Desborough by Richard Davenport-Hines


ISBN
9780753825952
Published
Released
02 / 11 / 2009
Binding
Paperback
Pages
464
Dimensions
136 x 215 x 34mm

Born in 1867 and orphaned at three, Ettie Fane was brought up by a beloved grandmother and then two adoring, almost incestuous, bachelor uncles. At twenty she married Willy Grenfell, later Lord Desborough, a genial sportsman. Beautiful, rich, charming and clever, Ettie soon became the centre of the Souls, arbiters of wit and elegance and a leading hostess at the two magnificent country houses she had inherited. Leading politicians, writers and artists were very much part of her circle. This was the England of country-house parties, separate bedrooms and well understood liaisons. Ettie was soon having affairs. But there was a dark side too, as this book will reveal, losing 3 sons to the war. But despite intense private misery, she reacted with outward courage and self-mastery. Grief revealed the greatness of her spirit. In the 1920s and 1930s she continued to collect new types, especially gifted young men, relishing people of all ages up to her death in 1952, a redoubtable survivor from a vanished age.
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