Author: DIANA HOLMAN-HUNT
Title: My grandmohers and I. No. 2
Description: Slightly Foxed Ltd. 2008. Linnen band. Pp: 287. An unwanted only child - whose father, Hilary, was employed in the Public Works Department in Burma - Holman-Hunt was shunted between her wealthy Freeman grandparents in Sussex, and a life of privation with the eccentric Edith Holman-Hunt ('Grand') in Kensington. Brave and resourceful, she soon learnt that adult affection was conditional, in the country, on her ability to entertain - she was constantly exhorted to 'utter' - and, in Melbury Road, Kensington, to take in and cherish anecdotes relating to the Victorian art world and her grandfather in particular. Holman-Hunt fulfilled both roles, but ultimately tired of Grand's canonisation of the great painter.n Her [first] book[ - My Grandmothers and Iť"ť] became a best-seller the year after [her second husband`s] death from cancer in 1959. ISBN: 978906562021. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 978906562021
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Title: My grandmohers and I. No. 2
Description: Slightly Foxed Ltd. 2008. Linnen band. Pp: 287. An unwanted only child - whose father, Hilary, was employed in the Public Works Department in Burma - Holman-Hunt was shunted between her wealthy Freeman grandparents in Sussex, and a life of privation with the eccentric Edith Holman-Hunt ('Grand') in Kensington. Brave and resourceful, she soon learnt that adult affection was conditional, in the country, on her ability to entertain - she was constantly exhorted to 'utter' - and, in Melbury Road, Kensington, to take in and cherish anecdotes relating to the Victorian art world and her grandfather in particular. Holman-Hunt fulfilled both roles, but ultimately tired of Grand's canonisation of the great painter.n Her [first] book[ - My Grandmothers and Iť"ť] became a best-seller the year after [her second husband`s] death from cancer in 1959. ISBN: 978906562021. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 978906562021
Price: EUR 45.00 = appr. US$ 48.91 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2267615
- Book number: 2267615
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