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Hugo Vickers The Sphinx (Paperback)
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- Objectstaat
- Publication Name
- The Sphinx
- Title
- The Sphinx
- Subtitle
- The Life of Gladys Deacon – Duchess of Marlborough
- ISBN-10
- 1529390745
- EAN
- 9781529390742
- ISBN
- 9781529390742
- Release Date
- 21/01/2021
- Release Year
- 2021
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Length
- 128mm
- UPC
- 9781529390742
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Sphinx: the Life of Gladys Deacon-Duchess of Marlborough
- Item Height
- 196mm
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Item Width
- 128mm
- Item Weight
- 300 g
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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**The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2020** 'This biography is truly wonderful - a masterclass in storytelling' Sunday Times 'A continuously astonishing and ultimately moving account of a unique figure, the stuff of great literature' Simon Callow, THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Gripping . . . jaw-dropping story, brilliantly told' Ysenda Maxtone Graham, THE TIMES 'The last book that made me cry . . . a really thorough and well-researched biography' Lynda La Plante, Good Housekeeping 'The most extraordinary, rackety life' William Boyd, DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Richly anecdotal and oddly captivating' Miranda Seymour, FINANCIAL TIMES 'At the end of the book the reader can only say, Whew! What a story! ' Anne de Courcy, SPECTATOR 'Hugo Vickers's life of Gladys Marlborough is an extraordinary and tragic story, with special resonance today' EVENING STANDARD ******************* One of the most beautiful and brilliant women of her time, Gladys Deacon dazzled and puzzled the glittering social circles in which she moved. Born in Paris to American parents in 1881, Gladys emerged from a traumatic childhood - her father having shot her mother's lover dead when Gladys was only eleven - to captivate and inspire some of the greatest literary and artistic names of the Belle Epoque. Marcel Proust wrote of her, 'I never saw a girl with such beauty, such magnificent intelligence, such goodness and charm.' Berenson considered marrying her, Rodin and Monet befriended her, Boldini painted her and Epstein sculpted her. She inspired love from diverse Dukes and Princes, and the interest of women such as the Comtesse Greffulhe and Gertrude Stein. In 1921, when Gladys was forty, she achieved the wish she had held since the age of fourteen to marry the 9th Duke of Marlborough, then freshly divorced from fellow American Consuelo Vanderbilt. Gladys's circle now included Lady Ottoline Morrell, Lytton Strachey and Winston Churchill, who described her as 'a strange, glittering being'. But life at Blenheim was not a success: when the Duke evicted her in 1933, the only remaining signs of Gladys were two sphinxes bearing her features on the west terraces and mysterious blue eyes in the grand portico. She became a recluse, and the wax injections she'd had to straighten her nose when she was 22 had by now ravaged her beauty. Gladys was to spend her last years in the psycho-geriatric ward of a mental hospital, where she was discovered by a young Hugo Vickers. Intrigued and compelled to unmask the truth of her mysterious life, Vickers visited her over the course of tw
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Hodder & Stoughton
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9781529390742
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7046448071
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Book Title
The Sphinx: the Life of Gladys Deacon-Duchess of Marlborough
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
196mm
Item Width
128mm
Item Weight
300 g
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United Kingdom
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