EDWARDIAN DAUGHTER

by Sonia Keppel ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 20, 1959

Written by the daughter of the famous Edwardian beauty, Mrs. George Keppel, the close friend of King Edward VII, who was known to the author as ""Kingy"", this book tells of the trials and joys of an English high-society childhood in the first years of this century. Born in 1900 to wealth and high social position, plagued as a child by asthma and shyness, the author writes of country houses and life in London, of the shock of ""Kingy's"" death, of friendly servants, her beautiful sister, who snubbed her, and of endless (and largely unidentified) relations, often terrifying, of the ""Kaiser's War"" in which many of her close friends were killed or wounded, and at last of her own marriage at the age of 20, an elaborate event saved by another clergyman, when the officiating Bishop failed to appear, and at which Mrs. Margo Asquith, arriving late, nearly wrecked the ceremony. Witty and well written, this personal record is too overcrowded with names and details unknown to American readers to hold wide appeal, in this country, but devotees of memoirs of Edwardian life and students of early 20th- century social manners should enjoy it.

Pub Date: April 20, 1959

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: British Book Centre

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1959

Categories: NONFICTION