Biographies & Memoirs / Biography / A Passion for Friendship by Kirsty McLeod

• Book Title: A Passion for Friendship
• Author: Kirsty McLeod
• ISBN: 0718131665
• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Year Published: 1991
• Our Price: £13.28 GBP ($26.03 USD)
• Description: Michael Joseph 1991, hardback in dust jacket; 180 pages including index; b/w illustrations. Synopsis Sibyl Colefax (1874-1950) was a society hostess of 1930s London; remembered, too, as the founder of the interior design company, Colefax and Fowler. This is a portrait of her life and her association with the personalities she brought together. This book explores Sibyl's friendships - with Harold Nicolson, Diana Cooper, the Windsors, Cole Porter, Noel Coward, Max Beerbohm, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, Bernard Berenson, Thornton Wilder and many others - providing a view of the celebrities of the period. She also analyzes Sibyl's unique nature that drew her to them: though some criticized her for "collecting" famous names, others found behind the relentlessly social personality a genuine and loyal friend, full of kindness and love of life. The author also wrote "The Wives of Downing Street", "Drums and Trumpets" and "The Last Summer". Condition: as new.
• Condition: Used- Like New
• Dustcover: Yes
• Binding: Hardback
• Type: Used Books

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