A House Full of Daughters

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<p>All families have their myths and Juliet Nicolsons was no different: her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita, her mothers Tory-conventional background.</p><p><i>A House Full of Daughters</i>takes us through seven generations of women. In the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-siècle Washington DC, an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who she is and where she has come from.</p>

Autorenportrait

Juliet Nicolson is the author of two works of history,<i>The Great Silence: 19181920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War</i>and<i>The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911</i>, and a novel,<i>Abdication</i>. As the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the daughter of Nigel Nicolson she is part of a renowned and much scrutinised family and the latest in the family line of record-keepers of the past. She lives with her husband in East Sussex, not far from Sissinghurst, where she spent her childhood. She has two daughters, Clemmie and Flora, and one grand-daughter, Imogen.

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