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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Signed copy. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> In these seven essays Diana Mosley provides her memories of great friends but also reflects many aspects of her own fascinating life. In two portraits – those of Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington and of Evelyn Waugh – she contributes her personal dimension of people whom she came to know well in the 1920s and 30s and who have been dealt with at length elsewhere. On the other hand Derek Jackson and Gerald Berners will without a doubt become the subject of future biographies so that her memories serve as a delightful introduction for many readers. Violet Hammersley was a close friend of her mother Lady Redesdale and a well-known figure of her Mitford childhood while Prince and Princess Clary were friends of her later years after the Second World War. Last comes the remarkable account of her friendship and marriage with Sir Oswald Mosley her beloved companion who died in 1980. Here her personal memoir adds immeasurably to the accounts of his life which have tended to concentrate on his political attitudes and activities. In her appendix to the book Lady Mosley deals with the 188 papers which she was told were to be hidden for a hundred years but which after great efforts from MPs have finally been released. (SP)