Lady Pamela Berry: Passion, Politics and Power
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Book Overview This is a biography lightened with the intimate tone of a social memoir, about a woman who was both a bystander and protagonist through s...
This is a biography lightened with the intimate tone of a social memoir, about a woman who was both a bystander and protagonist through some fifty years of twentieth-century British history. Pamela Berry was the daughter of the buccaneering and brilliant politician and lawyer, FE Smith, the first Earl of Birkenhead, and married the son of another self-made man, William Berry from South Wales, who became Viscount Camrose and the owner of a group of national newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph. She had an unusually glamorous and precocious childhood, spoiled by her adoring father, and much photographed by Cecil Beaton. In her prime she used her position as a newspaper proprietor's wife to become the most famous political and press hostess of her generation, harnessing her beauty and wit to influence successive governments, and was accused of wielding 'petticoat power' during the Suez crisis. She had a decade-long affair with Malcolm Muggeridge, became a vigorous promoter of British fashion, dragging it out of the dowdy fifties, and in later life was active in the museum world. Harriet Cullen has opened a window back into the remarkable story of her mother's life from a rich cache of family diaries and letters, interweaving them with many other unpublished sources. It is revealing, in turns scathing and admiring, but always entertaining.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 224 | Language: English | Publisher: UNICORN PUB GROUP | ISBN: 1916846661
FormatHardcover
Pages224
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1916846661
EAN9781916846661
PublisherUNICORN PUB GROUP
Publication Date1970-01-01
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.82 Pounds
Length9.47 Inches
Width6.54 Inches
Height1.02 Inches
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