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Ettie: The Life and World of Lady Desborough
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Ettie: The Life and World of Lady Desborough

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Beautiful heiress, accomplished flirt, aristocratic hostess, tragic mother, and Edwardian icon, Ettie Desborough is a fascinating but forgotten figure. She has been celebrated in countless memoirs but this is the first biography of her, based on private family archives and letters. Ettie Fane was born in 1867 and orphaned at three. At?20 she married Willie Grenfell, later Lord Desborough, a genial sportsman. Beautiful, rich, charming, and clever, she soon became the center of the group known as "the Souls" and a leading hostess at two magnificent country houses. She was the intimate friend of powerful leaders including Balfour, Curzon, and Churchill; the writers that she entertained included Wilde, Kipling, Wells, Yeats, and Sassoon. This is a portrait of a life which personified the last epoch of aristocratic glamour, elegance, and power that ended in 1914. But tragedy was not far away. In 1915 her son Julian died in France of war wounds. Six weeks later her second son Billy was killed in action. Her youngest son Ivo would be killed shortly after the war. Other deaths on the Western Front?of lovers and younger admirers?hurt her terribly too. But despite intense private misery, she reacted with outward courage and self-mastery. Grief revealed the greatness of her spirit. In the 1920s and 1930s she continued to collect new types, especially gifted young men, relishing people of all ages up to her death in 1952, a redoubtable survivor from a vanished age.

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Richard Davenport-Hines?is a?fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society and a past winner of the Wolfson Prize for History and Biography. He edited Hugh Trevor-Roper's Letters from Oxford.

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