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The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal
Robert Sackville-West
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Description for The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BM; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 262.
In the small hours of the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. It was only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the English press a fortnight later that the full story emerged. The man, Henry Sackville-West, had shot himself minutes after the death...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408843406
SKU
V9781408843406
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Robert Sackville-West
After studying History at Oxford University, Robert Sackville-West worked in publishing, founding Toucan Books in 1985, which creates illustrated non-fiction books for an international market. He now combines that with chairing Knole Estates, the property and investment company which runs the Sackville family's interests at Knole. In 2008, he and his wife and three children moved in the house, which...
Read moreReviews for The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal
Sackville-West has done his best with this tangled and unedifying tale. He writes elegantly and has been able to draw on Victoria’s diaries and the copious documentation thrown up by her uncle Henry’s court case
Sunday Times
Brilliantly exposes the shadowy side of the Victorian aristocracy and the horrors of life on the wrong...
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Brilliantly exposes the shadowy side of the Victorian aristocracy and the horrors of life on the wrong...