American Jennie The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill

Name: American Jennie The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill
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ISBN: 9780393057720

ISBN-10: 0393057720

ISBN-13: 9780393057720

Edition: 2007

Authors: Anne Sebba

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A frank account of the tempestuous life of the American mother of Britain's most important twentieth-century politician. Brooklyn-born Jennie Jerome married into the British aristocracy in 1874, after a three-day romance. She became Lady Randolph Churchill, wife of a maverick politician and mother of the most famous British statesman of the century. Jennie Churchill was not merely the most talked about and controversial American woman in London society, she was a dynamic behind-the-scenes political force and a woman of sexual fearlessness at a time when women were not supposed to be sexually liberated. A concert pianist, magazine founder and editor, and playwright, she was also, above all,…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/17/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Anne Sebba is a biographer, journalist, lecturer, and author of six books, including the best-selling Mother Teresa: Beyond the Image and Laura Ashley: A Life by Design. She lives in London.



Illustrations


Preface



Just Plain Jennie



I Love Her Better than Life Itself



I Have Placed All my Hopes of Future Happiness in This World on You



Jennie is Quite Satisfied with Randolph Just Now



I Quite Forget What It is Like to be with People Who Love Me



Rather a Relief to Get Winston off my Hands



Lord Randolph Churchill will Probably Always Retain a Great Power of Mischief



All that You are to Me



Dying by Inches in Public



All my Ambitions are Centred in You



The Versatility of Lady Randolph is Quite Unusual



Haunted by the Future



Courage Enough to Fight my own Battle in Life



Putting my Best Foot Forward


Epilogue: Remember that a Son Should Always Seek and Find Extenuating Circumstances for his Mother


Notes


Select Bibliography


Acknowledgements


Index