The Private Diaries of Daisy Princess of Pless
Author | : Daisy von Pless |
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Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1950 |
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Author | : Daisy von Pless |
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Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1950 |
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Author | : Mary Theresa Olivia von HOCHBERG (Princess von Pless.) |
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Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1950 |
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Author | : W. John Koch |
Publisher | : BOOKS by W. JOHN KOCH PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780973157901 |
Married to one of Imperial Germany's wealthiest princes, Daisy of Pless nee Cornwallis-West occupied a prominent place in Edwardian Society. The biography of Princess Daisy of Pless becomes a journey of discovery through the life of a woman who was beautiful, intelligent, idealistic, and creative in pursuing her humanitarian and political goals. Daisy of Pless was the friend of King Edward VII and Emperor Wilhelm II. She fought against many adversities for the betterment of life of the poor and the working class and for peace in Europe. In the end, although as a woman and as a member of her class she was ahead of her time, her accomplishments went unrecognized and she was quickly forgotten except by the poor and the working people of Lower Silesia she had helped so effectively. Celebrated as one of the great beauties of Edwardian England and as the glamorous hostess of the international set at Castle Furstenstein in Imperial Germany, Daisy of Pless led a life of remarkable triumphs that ended suddenly with the onset of the Great War.Between 1914 and 1918, condemned to life in enemy country, she served as auxiliary nurse on German and Austrian hospital trains in France and in Serbia. Her last triumph was the publication of her diaries after 1927. Her life ended in a great tragedy of chronic illness, social isolation, and poverty. With this startling biography, the accomplishments of Daisy of Pless may rise from obscurity to a recognized place in history and inspire readers everywhere.
Author | : Daisy Pless (Fürstin von) |
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Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Europe |
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Author | : Daisy Princess of Pless |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
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ISBN | : 9781013881527 |
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Author | : Princess Daisy |
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Release | : 1950 |
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Author | : Daisy Pless (Fürstin von) |
Publisher | : Ryerson Press |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : Authors, German |
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Author | : Anne Sebba |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2010-12-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393079686 |
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.”
Author | : Barbara Lounsberry |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 607 |
Release | : 2020-01-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813065380 |
Choice Outstanding Academic Title In her third and final volume on Virginia Woolf’s diaries, Barbara Lounsberry reveals new insights about the courageous last years of the modernist writer’s life, from 1929 until Woolf’s suicide in 1941. Woolf turned more to her diary—and to the diaries of others—for support in these years as she engaged in inner artistic wars, including the struggle with her most difficult work, The Waves, and as the threat of fascism in the world outside culminated in World War II. During this period, the war began to bleed into Woolf’s diary entries. Woolf writes about Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin; copies down the headlines of the day; and captures how war changed her daily life. Alongside Woolf’s own entries, Lounsberry explores the diaries of 18 other writers as Woolf read them, including the diaries of Leo Tolstoy, Dorothy Wordsworth, Guy de Maupassant, Alice James, and André Gide. Lounsberry shows how reading diaries was both respite from Woolf’s public writing and also an inspiration for it. Tellingly, shortly before her suicide Woolf had stopped reading them completely. The outer war and Woolf’s inner life collide in this dramatic conclusion to the trilogy that resoundingly demonstrates why Virginia Woolf has been called “the Shakespeare of the diary.” Lounsberry’s masterful study is essential reading for a complete understanding of this extraordinary writer and thinker and the development of modernist literature.
Author | : Daisy de Pless |
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Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 1929 |
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