Memories of Andrew Devonshire
Title | Memories of Andrew Devonshire PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish Devonshire |
Publisher | |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Aristocracy (Social class) |
ISBN | 9781843063667 |
Images of the life of the 11th Duke of Devonshire. Includes chapters on Childhood; Marriage; War Years; Inheritance; Politics; Sport; Public Life; Horse Racing; Books; Gardening; Entertaining.
Wait for Me!
Title | Wait for Me! PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Devonshire |
Publisher | John Murray Publishers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Aristocracy (Social class) |
ISBN | 9781848541917 |
Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about her brother and sisters, and their politics (while not being at all political herself), finally setting the record straight. Throughout the book she writes brilliantly about the country and her deep attachment to it and those who live and work in it. As Duchess of Devonshire, Debo played an active role in restoring and overseeing the day-to-day running of the family houses and gardens, and in developing commercial enterprises at Chatsworth. She tells poignantly of the deaths of three of her children, as well as her husband's battle with alcohol addiction. Wait For Me is enthralling and a total joy, full of the author's sympathetic wit (which she is not afraid to use on herself).
In Tearing Haste
Title | In Tearing Haste PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Leigh Fermor |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2017-11-14 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1681371871 |
Now in paperback, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Deborah Devonshire's witty, informative, and altogether delightful correspondence. In the spring of 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters, invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires’ house in Ireland. The halcyon visit sparked a deep friendship and a lifelong exchange of highly entertaining correspondence.
The Chatsworth Garden Diary
Title | The Chatsworth Garden Diary PDF eBook |
Author | Dowager Duchess of Devonshire |
Publisher | White Lion Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780711226258 |
This diary is filled with wonderful images of the glorious landscape andarden at Chatsworth in Derbyshire, including parterres and vistas, water inll its forms, rockeries and trees, a productive kitchen garden and superbtaturary, as well as magnificent borders. Each photograph is captioned withhe Dowager Duchess of Devonshire's lively and informative text. Each weekas a full-page colour photograph and the diary includes national andeligious holidays and astronomical information. Beautifully produced ineek-to-view format with a colour picture on every spread, it has a freshesign, generously laid out, with plenty of room to write. The Dowageruchess of Devonshire, widow of the 11th Duke, has known and loved Chatsworthor over half a century and probably knows it better than anyone else. She ishe youngest of the seven children of the second Lord Redesdale, and sisterf the writers Nancy and Jessica Mitford and Diana Mosley. She herself is theuthor of several books, which include the phenomenally successful "Countingy The Garden at Chatsworth".
The Other Mitford
Title | The Other Mitford PDF eBook |
Author | Diana Alexander |
Publisher | The History Press |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2011-11-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0752478974 |
Pamela Jackson, née Mitford, is perhaps the least well known of the illustrious Mitford sisters, and yet her story is just as captivating, and more revealing. Despite shunning the bright city lights that her sisters so desperately craved, she was very much involved in the activities of her extraordinary family, picking up the many pieces when things went disastrously wrong – which they so often did. Joining her sisters on many adventures, including their meeting with Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, Pamela quietly observed the bizarre, funny and often tragic events that took place around her. Through her eyes, we are given a view of the Mitfords never seen before. ‘Loyal to the core,’ she possessed ‘the constancy and kindness that underpinned the wilder exploits of the Mitford family. Indeed, innocence, along with courage and kindness, was one of her remarkable qualities. But it was the innocence of a woman who had lived and suffered, loved and lost, and overcome adversity’. Journalist Diana Alexander, who was Pamela’s friend for many years, here reveals the unknown Mitford, or, as her lifelong admirer John Betjeman described her, ‘Gentle Pamela’.
Wait for Me!
Title | Wait for Me! PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2010-11-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1429917938 |
The autobiography of one of Britain's most beloved figures, last of the Mitford sisters, renowned writer and social figure. Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood of six daughters and one son that included 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 roaming the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her sister Unity in 1937, to her marriage to Andrew Cavendish, the second son of the Duke of Devonshire. Her life changed 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. In 1959, the Duchess and her family took up residence in Chatsworth, the four-hundred-year-old family seat, with its incomparable collections of paintings, tapestry, and sculpture—the combined accumulations of generations of tastemakers. Neglected due to the economies of two world wars and punitive inheritance taxes, the great house soon came to life again under the careful attention of the Duchess. It is regarded as one of England's most loved and popular historic houses. Wait for Me! is written with intense warmth, charm, and perception. A unique portrait of an age of tumult, splendor, and change, it is also an unprecedented look at the rhythms of life inside one of the great aristocratic families of England. With its razor-sharp portraits of the Duchess's many friends and cohorts—politicians, writers, artists, sportsmen—it is truly irresistible reading, and will join the shelf of Mitford classics to delight readers for years to come.
All in One Basket
Title | All in One Basket PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2011-09-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0374103461 |
Originally published in 2011 by John Murray (Publishers), Great Britain.