Lady Winifred Burghclere
And her Troublesome Daughters
Four Immoral Tales From The Roaring Twenties
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FROM THE AUTHOR WILLIAM CROSS, FSA SCOT
SYNOPIS
Winifred Burghclere was the
clever sister of the Lord Carnarvon who discovered
Tutankhamun, a biographer of Restoration toffs and lady of letters. Her
early years were spent at
Her widower father,
the 4th Earl, a Cabinet Minister made her his
private secretary, Winifred learned early on how to keep secrets. Twice married
she produced four lively, racy daughters from her second marriage to the
quixotic Herbert Gardner, an actor playwright who turned to politics, a
former Liberal Government Minister he was raised to the peerage.
A stickler for rules, duty and
old world values Winifred completely hemmed her
daughters in, they were kept under their mother’s grip,
bullied, isolated and schooled by governesses. The girls were
named Juliet, Alathea, Mary and Evelyn Gardner, each had a
long string of other forenames. They began as a peculiar
mix of the prudish and moral, “as naive as nuns
“, then became the complete flip side of
this, amoral, and unconventional, hence troublesome.
The
In this tale of
aristocratic snobbery, scandal and
love William Cross ( author of
several books on the Carnarvons of Highclere Castle ( Downton Abbey) ) offers a quaint blend of exciting, amusing, shocking tales, unearthing the inevitable
excesses, casualties and horrors of the era’s
pleasure domes of night club frolics, themed dances,
crazy parties and drink, drugs and sex fuelled romps on
the London scene : all of which forced four ‘poor little rich
girls’ to quickly grow up and face the consequences of their actions.
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