Eminent Georgians : the lives of King George V, Elizabeth Bowen, St. John Philby & Nancy Astor

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Label

Eminent Georgians : the lives of King George V, Elizabeth Bowen, St. John Philby & Nancy Astor

Title remainder

the lives of King George V, Elizabeth Bowen, St. John Philby & Nancy Astor

Statement of responsibility

John Halperin

Creator

• Halperin, John, 1941-2018

Subject

• Arabian Peninsula
• Astor, Nancy W
• Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964
• Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964
• Biographie
• Biography
• Bowen, Elizabeth
• Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973
• Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973
• Explorers
• Explorers -- Arabian Peninsula -- Biography
• Georg (Großbritannien, König, V.)
• George, V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936
• 1900 - 1999
• Great Britain
• Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Biography
• Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
• Kings and rulers
• Middle East specialists
• Middle East specialists -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Novelists, Irish
• Novelists, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography
• Philby, H. St. J. B., (Harry St. John Bridger), 1885-1960
• Philby, H. St. J. B., (Harry St. John Bridger), 1885-1960
• Women politicians
• Women politicians -- Great Britain -- Biography
• George, V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

King George V, a monarch often deemed stodgy and reactionary; Elizabeth Bowen, a brilliant Anglo-Irish writer, exposed as a World War II English spy monitoring her native Ireland; St. John Philby, father of the notorious spy Kim Philby; and Nancy Astor, an American divorcee who became the first female member of Parliament, make up the quartet of personalities through which John Halperin explores a world of intrigue existing just below the glittering surface of Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Describing the age as simultaneously conventional and progressive, Victorian and modern, Halperin considers the impact that these leading figures had on their era, as well as the extent to which they themselves were shaped by the age in which they lived

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

DA568.A1

LC item number

H35 1995

Literary form

non fiction