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1939: The Last Season by Anne de Courcy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
The Season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The young debutante daughters of the upper classes were presented to the King and Queen to mark their acceptance into the new adult world of their parents. They sparkled their way through a succession of balls and parties and sporting events. ...Show more
Debs at War by Anne De Courcy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them, the war changed all that for ever. It meant independence and the shock of the new, and daily exposure to cust ...Show more
Margot at War: In Love, Peace and War at Downing Street by Anne De Courcy
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last five years at Number 10 were a period of intens ...Show more
Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916 by Anne De Courcy
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last five years at Number 10 were a period of intens ...Show more
Society's Queen : The life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry by Anne De Courcy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
At the age of twenty-one, Edith Chaplin married one of the most eligible bachelors of the day, the eldest son of the sixth Marquess of Londonderry. Her husband served in the Ulster cabinet and was Air Minister in the National Government of 1934-5. Edith founded the Women's Legion during the First World ...Show more
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj by Anne De Courcy
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible me ...Show more
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj CD by Anne De Courcy
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible me ...Show more
The Fishing Fleet : Husband-hunting in the Raj by Anne De Courcy
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible me ...Show more
The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters by Anne De Courcy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Women in History Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Viceroy's Daughters is the riveting chronicle of the dazzling lives of three remarkable sisters -- aristocratic, rich, spirited and willful-born when the wealth and privilege of the British upper classes were at their zenith. Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (born 1898) and Alexandra (born 1904) were the ...Show more
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