by James Fox · Granta Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781862072817
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«The Langhorne Sisters» is the biography of the five Langhorne sisters written by James Fox, published by Granta Books in paperback (592 pages, in English).
James Fox reconstructs the story of the five Langhorne sisters, born in Virginia, whose beauty and personality made them famous figures in the United States and England between the early twentieth century and the Second World War. Drawing on thousands of letters and documents from the family archive, the author follows their lives, marriages and ambitions: Nancy became the first woman MP in the British Parliament; Irene served as a model for the «Gibson girl»; the life of Nora, the youngest, was full of turbulent love affairs.
The volume includes 592 pages in paperback, edited by Granta Books in 1999 in the English language.
Recommended for readers interested in historical biography, influential families and Anglo-American society of the first half of the twentieth century.
James Fox is a British journalist best known for his book, White Mischief, and for co-authoring Life, the best-selling memoir of Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards.
