Description: Houghton Mifflin Company, 91963. Hardcover, 342 pp. First [Houghton Mifflin] printing. Edited and abridged and with an Introduction by Mark Bonham Carter. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Nice jacket art by Samuel H. Bryant [From jacket flaps] The placid London of 1894 was shaken by rumors of an engagement which also shocked the families of the two parties to the match. The bride-to-be was Margot, flashing, dashing sixth daughter of Sir Charles Tennant, wealthy Scottish industrialist and discriminating art patron. Her choice was the young Home Secretary, quiet, self-effacing Henry Herbert Asquith, a widower with five young children. The subsequent careers of this deeply devoted if oddly matched couple were to send many false prophets running to cover. Together they lived through the great years of the Liberal Party, Asquith serving as Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916, later raised to the peerage as the 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith. "Launched more like a rocket than a ship," Margot found as broad a scope for her vitality, her courage and her candor, her egoism and her irascibility behind the scenes at 10 Downing Street as in the hunting field and the overstuffed drawing rooms of Mayfair. She became known not only as a brilliant and popular hostess, with a self-confessed weakness for great men, but as a mistress of indiscretion. Her epigrams were famous, however wide of the mark. This is not an autobiography recollected, or written, in tranquillity. It is based on copious diaries begun in the author's first childish scrawls, scrupulously continued and carefully preserved. Here is the era of Gladstone and Salisbury, of Rosebery and Balfour; the twilight of Victoria and the grueling days of the Boer War; Asquith's ascendancy and the Edwardian age; the first rumblings of the guns of August; down to the rise of Lloyd George, the signing of the Armistice, the Peace Treaty and the General Election of 1918.. .
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
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Author: Margot Asquith
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Topic: Asquith, Margot, 1864-1945
Subject: Asquith, Margot, 1864-1945
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1963
