Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox 1740-1832
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0374103054 / Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, October 1994
Draws on diaries and letters to portray the lives of four eighteenth-century sisters
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Tillyard, winner of the Nicolaus Pevsner Memorial Prize, reconstructs the lives of the Lennox sisters (great-granddaughters of King Charles II), drawing on letters and other primary sources. She reveals that the Lennox sisters were concerned with familiar issues of family, loyalty, and personal freedom, in the world of the 18th-century aristocrat. Includes b&w and color photos and paintings. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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