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Lambert, Angela Maria was born on April 14, 1940 in Beckenham, Kent, England. Daughter of John Donald and Edith Paula Alice (Schroeder) Helps.
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This book describes the rise - and the fall - of the Souls, an elite group that flourished in England from the 1880s up to the first World War.. Its members included such figures as Arthur Balfour, George Curzon, Willy Grenfell, George Wyndham, Alfred Lyttleton, Henry Cust and Hurgo, Lord Elcho, and some of its most influential members were women: Margot Asquith and the Tennant sisters, ettie Grenfell, Lady Elcho and the Duchess of Rutland.
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Eva Braun is one of history’s most famous nonentities. She has been dismissed as a racist, feathered-headed shop girl, yet sixty-two years after her death her name is still instantly recognizable. She left her convent school at the age of seventeen and met Hitler a few months later. She became his mistress before she was twenty. How did unsophisticated little Fraulein Braun, twenty-three years his junior, hold the most powerful man in Europe in an exclusive sexual relationship that lasted from 1932 until their joint suicide? Were they really lovers, and what were the background influences and psychological tensions of the middle-class Catholic girl from Munich who shared his intimate life? How can her ordinariness and apparent decency be reconciled with an unshakeable loyalty to the monster she loved? She left almost no personal material or documents but her private diary and photograph albums show that her life with Hitler, far from being a luxurious sinecure, caused her emotional torture. His chauffeur called her “the unhappiest woman in Germany.” The Führer humiliated her in public while the top Nazis’ wives, living in his privileged enclave on a Bavarian mountainside, despised her. Yet Albert Speer said: “She has been much maligned. She was very shy, modest. A man’s woman: gay, gentle, and kind; incredibly undemanding . . . a restful sort of girl. And her love for Hitler---as she proved in the end---was beyond question.” Eva loved the Führer, not for his power, nor because, thanks to him, she lived in luxury. His material gifts were nothing compared with the one thing she really wanted: his child. She remained invisible and unknown, a nonperson. They were never seen in public together and she never saw him alone except in the bedroom, yet their long relationship was a sort of marriage. Angela Lambert reveals a woman the world never knew until the last twenty-four hours of her life. In the small hours of April 29, 1945, as Allied troops raced to capture Berlin and the bunker below the Reichskanzlei where the defeated Nazi leaders were hiding, Eva Braun finally achieved her life’s ambition by becoming Hitler’s wife. Next day they both swallowed cyanide and died instantly. She was young, healthy, and thirty-three years old. Based on detailed new research, this is an authoritative biography, only the second life of Eva written in English.
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( It was called the London Season, and for three centurie...)
It was called the London Season, and for three centuries it had been a time of fashionable suppers and brilliant balls that introduced England's most aristocratic and eligible girls to society. Though by 1939 the stately gavottes and minuets had long since given way to waltzes and fox-trots, the cream of young womanhood still curtsied low before the Queen and then went out to dance the night away with the young men they would one day marry. But the Season of 1939 was different: it was to be the last. And like many a finale, it lives on in memory as a lovely, enchanted dream, all the more beautiful for the horror and destruction that would follow so soon. Based on a wealth of first-hand reminiscences, press clippings, and memorabilia, 1939: The Last Season of Peace is a fascinating portrait of this fairy tale about to end. Itcaptures the end of an era as it recreates a world whose inhabitants still believed in empire and tradition. It is a vivid picture of a generation suspended in a brief moment of sunlit summer glory, before the gathering storm of World War II swept it all away.
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An original work exploring a rarely discussed group of late-Victorian intellectuals and aristocrats, "the Souls" - Margot Asquith, Arthur Balfour, George Curzon and others - who intersected with each other in both their London and country houses between 1890 and 1914. Shortlisted for the 1984 Whitbread Prize.
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Set within a girls' boarding school in the 1920s, this novel tells the story of petty treachery and deceits which culminate in violence and the realization of change. Central to the novel are three women from different generations - Henrietta, the head, Sylvia, a teacher, and Constance, a new girl.
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This book describes the rise--and fall--of an elite group which flourished within English society from the 1880s until the First World War: The Souls. Its members included intellectuals and politicians. What made the Souls unique, however, was that some of their most influential members were women. "The Unquiet Souls" is no bland eulogy of a 'Golden Age' but a portrayal of England during four decades of dazzling and often cruel contradictions. Angela Lambert examines the rigid hierarchy of servants and class, the manipulation that kept power in the hands of the landed aristocracy and the very rich, and the unwritten rules and private language that defined membership of this charmed, doomed circle, the like of which could never form again.
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"We who are members of the single classes, unmarried and unattached, are always waiting to fall in love...Every day and each encounter holds out the possibility of that momentous flash which will change everything." Constance Liddell, in her mid-forties, answers a personal column ad - "Polish gentleman, 50s, political refugee, seeks intellectual woman for marriage" - and arranges to meet Iwo Zaluski. For Constance, her work, children, friends and friendship with her charming, philandering ex-husband only sometimes alleviate the deeper longing for intimacy and marriage. Meeting Iwo Zaluski for the first time, on a walk on Hampstead Heath, she perceives in him the loneliness of a fellow exile. Too rapidly, she falls in love. Angela Lambert (1940 - 2007) was a British journalist, art critic and author, best known for the novel A Rather English Marriage. Born as Angela Maria Helps to a civil servant and a German-born housewife, she was unhappy when sent to Wispers School, a girls' boarding school in Sussex, where by the age of 12 she had decided that she wanted to be a writer. She went to St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she read politics, philosophy and economics. She began her career as a journalist in 1969, working for ITN before joining The Independent newspaper in 1988.
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(This evocative novel by Angela Lambert is set in India an...)
This evocative novel by Angela Lambert is set in India and rural England and is about two young people, from different continents, whose lives become tragically connected.
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Set within a girls' boarding school in the 1920s, this is the story of petty treachery and deceits which culminate in violence and the realization of change. Long light evenings, swimming and tennis, striped cotton frocks. It's summer term at Raeburn. New arrival Constance King hates her boarding school on sight, yet dreams of being accepted by the other girls. Instead, she finds a ferment of frustrated hopes mingled with excited expectations. Angela Lambert was born in 1940 and educated at boarding school in Sussex and then at St Hilda's College, Oxford where she read PPE. She worked for a cabinet minister before becoming a journalist in 1969. She has been a television reporter with ITN and Thames Television, and joined the newly formed Independent in 1988. She now writes for the Sunday Telegraph. Angela Lambert has three grown-up children and six grandchildren; she lives with her partner, Tony Price, in London and France. She is the author of six previous novels including A Rather English Marriage, which has been made into an award-winning film starring Tom Courtenay , Joanna Lumley and Albert Finney.
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Lambert, Angela Maria was born on April 14, 1940 in Beckenham, Kent, England. Daughter of John Donald and Edith Paula Alice (Schroeder) Helps.
Graduate in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, St. Hilda's College, Oxford, England, 1961.
Editor Cassell & Company, London, 1961-1962. Research assistant Labour Cabinet Minister, House of Lords, 1964-1968. Journalist SUN Newspaper, 1969-1971.
Reporter Indiana television News ITN), 1972-1976, London Weekend television, 1976-1978, Thames television, London, 1978-1989. Columnist, interviewer The Independent, 1989-1996. Interviewer The Daily Mail, 1996-2000.
Feature writer, interviewer The Sunday Telegraph, 2000—2003.
(An original work exploring a rarely discussed group of la...)
( It was called the London Season, and for three centurie...)
(This evocative novel by Angela Lambert is set in India an...)
(Set within a girls' boarding school in the 1920s, this no...)
( Set within a girls' boarding school in the 1920s, this ...)
( Set within a girls' boarding school in the 1920s, this ...)
(This book describes the rise--and fall--of an elite group...)
(This book describes the rise - and the fall - of the Soul...)
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( "We who are members of the single classes, unmarried an...)
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Member English P.E.N. (executive committee 1991-1995), Friends of Classics.
Married Martin John Lambert (divorced 1966). Children: Carolyn Ruth, Jonathan Martin. Partner Stephen Vizinczey.
1 child, Marianne Jane Vizinczey-Lambert. Partner Antony John Price, 1986.