by James Lord · Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc · tapa dura · ISBN 9780374265533
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«Six Exceptional Women» is a book of biographical portraits by James Lord, published in 1994 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in hardcover (372 pages, in English).
James Lord brings together six biographical portraits of women who marked his life: Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein, Marie-Laure de Noailles, the actress Arletty, Errieta Perdikidi and Louise Bennett Lord, his mother. Through these relationships, the author evokes their personalities, their decisions and the artistic, social and political context in which they lived.
It bears the subtitle «Further Memoirs»; it is the first edition and includes an index.
For readers of biographies and memoirs, particularly those interested in art, twentieth-century culture and the role of women in society.
Lord James Cavendish FRS of Staveley Hall, Derbyshire was a British Whig politician who sat in the English House of Commons and the British House of Commons. He was a son of the 1st Duke of Devonshire and a member of the Cavendish family.
