American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph ChurchillW. W. Norton & Company, 30 de out. de 2007 - 398 páginas 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, a devoted mother to Winston. In American Jennie, Anne Sebba draws on newly discovered personal correspondences and archives to examine the unusually powerful mutual infatuation between Jennie and her son and to relate the passionate and ultimately tragic career of the woman whom Winston described as having “the wine of life in her veins.” |
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Just Plain Jennie | 1 |
I Love Her Better than Life Itself | 21 |
I Have Placed All my Hopes of Future Happiness in This World on You | 42 |
Jennie is Quite Satisfied with Randolph Just Now | 60 |
I Quite Forget What It is Like to be with People Who Love Me | 77 |
Rather a Relief to Get Winston off my Hands | 102 |
Lord Randolph Churchill will Probably Always Retain a Great Power of Mischief | 126 |
All that You are to Me | 151 |
The Versatility of Lady Randolph is Quite Unusual | 231 |
Haunted by the Future | 257 |
Courage Enough to Fight my own Battle in Life | 287 |
Putting My Best Foot Forward | 310 |
Remember that a Son Should Always Seek and Find Extenuating Circumstances for his Mother | 321 |
Notes | 333 |
Select Bibliography | 367 |
Acknowledgements | 375 |
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American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill Anne Sebba Visualização parcial - 2010 |
American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill Anne Sebba Prévia não disponível - 2007 |
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