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Venetia Murray was born on January 3, 1932, in the United Kingdom. Her father, Basil Murray, was a British editor, journalist and Liberal Party politician.
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Murray was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, London.
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The Regency period was one of the most turbulent ages in British history, one that spanned the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, that witnessed unprecedented industrial progress, artistic accomplishment, and violent social unrest and - paradoxically - the most sparkling social scene English high society has ever enjoyed.
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1999
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Passion, Politics, and Privilege: the Regency aristocracy lived through one of the most romantic and turbulent ages of British history.
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1999
Venetia Murray was born on January 3, 1932, in the United Kingdom. Her father, Basil Murray, was a British editor, journalist and Liberal Party politician.
Murray was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, London.
Venetia Murray worked as a journalist with several major periodicals and newspapers before taking a turn as a social historian, but her first novel, Waiting for Love, was published early in her career in 1958. Her subsequent novel, Fred's First Waltz, was published more than twenty years after the first. The title character is a seventeen-year-old boy who leaves school in Westminster to tend the family’s dilapidated lighthouse in southern France. His family can no longer afford to keep up the lighthouse, and it is about to fail out of their hands. On the plane ride to France, Fred falls in love with Alice, the daughter of a wealthy duke and a movie star. Alice and Fred manage to carry out a happy affair, despite the meddling of Alice’s mother. Fred's entrepreneurial cousin Orlando arrives to complicate matters and, though the lighthouse is saved, the fishing village is completely disrupted.
Murray has edited two books of recollections set in specific locations, one in the country, the other in the city. In the first, Where Have All the Cowslips Gone?, senior citizens remember their pre-World War II childhoods in Wessex. There are happy memories of playing “Jack, Jack shine the light,” and “Sunlight soap is the best in the world,” along with grim memories of working in the mines. One woman remembers meeting the queen, while a man recalls burning shelves when his family ran out of coal.
Murray turned from the lives of the poor to tales of the wealthy and famous for her next two books. Castle Howard: The Life and Times of a Stately Home is the story of the castle and its inhabitants, seen over a period of three hundred years. Castle Howard was begun by Charles Howard, third Earl of Carlisle, in 1699 as an advertisement of his taste, wealth, and worthiness for political promotion. Murray begins with Howard’s own background before the castle’s inception and follows through the castle’s subsequent inhabitants, their scandals of gambling and drink, their excellent art purchases, their melancholia and eventual teetotaling, and their struggles with the twentieth century.
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1999Murray was an Anglican.
Murray was married three times; to Bobby (Lionel) Birch a writer on Picture Post, who was the love of her life, and the father of her son Rupert. She later married Richard Kershaw, father of her much-loved daughter Sophy. Her last husband was Peter Alexander.