Wait for me!
Subtitle: memoirs
By: by Deborah Devonshire
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9781445856216; 9781445856223
Subjects: Aristocracy (Social class); Biography; Large type books
Description: Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents, she talks candidly about her brother and sisters, finally setting the record straight.
Notes: Standard print ed. originally published: London : John Murray, 2010.
Table of contents: title: 1. We are seven; title: 2. Farve and Muv; title: 3. Sisters and Tom; title: 4. Swinbrook House; title: 5. Rutland gate and Old Mill Cottage; title: 6. Back to Swinbrook; title: 7. Debutante; title: 8. War; title: 9. Marriage; title: 10. Childbirths and deaths; title: 11. Inheritance; title: 12. Edensor House; title: 13. Lismore; title: 14. Moving to Chatsworth; title: 15. Bolton Hall; title: 16. A minister's wife; title: 17. The Kennedys; title: 18. Public life; title: 19. Orphan; title: 20. Midway; title: 21. Living above the shop; title: 22. Distractions; title: 23. Festivities and celebrations; title: 24. The others; title: 25. The old vicarage.