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Round About Chatsworth

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Author : Dowager Duchess of Devonshire
language : en
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Release Date : 2005-10-30

Round About Chatsworth written by Dowager Duchess of Devonshire and has been published by Frances Lincoln this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-30 with History categories.

The almost legendary palace of Chatsworth has been presided over by the same family for more than 450 years. Here, Deborah Dowager Duchess of Devonshire tells the story of the estate that surrounds it. Many within a couple of miles of the house were inspired by the imagination of one of the dukes. It is these that the Duchess describes.

Wait For Me

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Author : Deborah Devonshire
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-09-09

Wait For Me written by Deborah Devonshire and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about her brother and sisters, and their politics (while not being at all political herself), finally setting the record straight. Throughout the book she writes brilliantly about the country and her deep attachment to it and those who live and work in it. As Duchess of Devonshire, Debo played an active role in restoring and overseeing the day-to-day running of the family houses and gardens, and in developing commercial enterprises at Chatsworth. She tells poignantly of the deaths of three of her children, as well as her husband's battle with alcohol addiction. Wait For Me is enthralling and a total joy, full of the author's sympathetic wit (which she is not afraid to use on herself).

In Tearing Haste

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Author : Patrick Leigh Fermor
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-11-03

In Tearing Haste written by Patrick Leigh Fermor and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters - invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires' house in Ireland. This halcyon visit sparked off a deep friendship and a lifelong exchange of sporadic but highly entertaining letters. There can rarely have been such contrasting styles: Debo, unashamed philistine and self-professed illiterate (though suspected by her friends of being a secret reader), darts from subject to subject while Paddy, polyglot, widely read prose virtuoso, replies in the fluent, polished manner that has earned him recognition as one of the finest writers in the English language. Prose notwithstanding, the two friends have much in common: a huge enjoyment of life, youthful high spirits, warmth, generosity and lack of malice. There are glimpses of President Kennedy's inauguration, weekends at Sandringham, stag hunting in France, filming with Errol Flynn in French Equatorial Africa and, above all, of life at Chatsworth, the great house that Debo spent much of her life restoring, and of Paddy in the house that he and his wife Joan designed and built on the southernmost peninsula of Greece.

All In One Basket

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Author : Deborah Devonshire
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-09-15

All In One Basket written by Deborah Devonshire and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Entertaining, instructive, thought-provoking and hilarious, the unmistakeable voice of Deborah Devonshire rings out of this volume which combines her two collections of 'occasional' writings - Home to Roost and Counting My Chickens. The pieces are broad and eclectic in their subjects, ranging from treasures unearthed while the kitchen was being redecorated, musings about the reason for the reworded town sign, tourism at Chatsworth, a ringside view of both John F. Kennedy's inauguration and funeral, and the value of deportment. No matter what she's writing about she is always affectionate, shrewd and uproariously funny.

Home To Roost

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Author : Deborah Devonshire
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-05-14

Home To Roost written by Deborah Devonshire and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

'My father would not have wasted time reading -- a trait I have inherited from him.' The unmistakeable voice of Deborah Devonshire, the youngest of the Mitford sisters, rings out of this second volume of her occasional writings. As broad and eclectic as her long and eventful life, the pieces range from a ringside view of John F. Kennedy's inauguration and funeral, a valedictory for her local post office, the 1938 London season, Christmas at Chatsworth and the hazards of shopping for clothes when your eyesight is failing. Affectionate, shrewd and uproariously funny, her no-nonsense, bang-on-the-nail observations are as good as any antidepressant.

Chatsworth The House

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Author : Dowager Duchess of Devonshire
language : en
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Release Date : 2002-03-28

Chatsworth The House written by Dowager Duchess of Devonshire and has been published by Frances Lincoln this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-28 with Travel categories.

Chatsworth is one of England's ten most visited great houses. In this tour of the house, Deborah the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire takes the reader into the private as well as the public rooms, and goes behind the scenes to explain the management of the household and the work of the staff needed to keep it going.