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Marriages Are Made in Bond Street: True Stories from a 1940s Marriage Bureau
Penrose Halson
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Description for Marriages Are Made in Bond Street: True Stories from a 1940s Marriage Bureau
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJH; 3JJPG; BT; HBTB; KNS; VFVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 288.
In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London's Bond Street and set about the delicate business of match-making. Drawing on the bureau's extensive archives, Penrose Halson - who many years later found herself the proprietor of the bureau - tells their story, and those of their clients. We meet a remarkable cross-section of British society in the 1940s: gents with a 'merry twinkle', potential fifth-columnists, nervous spinsters, isolated farmers seeking 'a nice quiet ... Read more
In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London's Bond Street and set about the delicate business of match-making. Drawing on the bureau's extensive archives, Penrose Halson - who many years later found herself the proprietor of the bureau - tells their story, and those of their clients. We meet a remarkable cross-section of British society in the 1940s: gents with a 'merry twinkle', potential fifth-columnists, nervous spinsters, isolated farmers seeking 'a nice quiet ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509822423
SKU
V9781509822423
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99-5
About Penrose Halson
Penrose Halson's career encompassed teaching, writing, editing and, to her astonishment, becoming first lady Master of a City Livery Company. Her determined mother sent her to the Katharine Allen Marriage & Advice Bureau, of which she became proprietor in 1986. In 1992 it incorporated Heather Jenner's agency. Aged forty-eight she finally delighted her mother by marrying and ... Read more
Reviews for Marriages Are Made in Bond Street: True Stories from a 1940s Marriage Bureau
A fascinating account
The Lady
An absorbing story . . . the book crackles with insights into the mores of those times.
Mail on Sunday
Glimpse into the matchmaking world of 1940s London with this delightful book.
New Day
I thought this was going to be a frivolous romp through the frolicks of wartime ... Read more
The Lady
An absorbing story . . . the book crackles with insights into the mores of those times.
Mail on Sunday
Glimpse into the matchmaking world of 1940s London with this delightful book.
New Day
I thought this was going to be a frivolous romp through the frolicks of wartime ... Read more