Bibliograph

Counting one's blessings, the selected letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, edited and with a preface by William Shawcross

Type

Label

Counting one's blessings, the selected letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, edited and with a preface by William Shawcross

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 629-646) and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

genealogical tablesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Counting one's blessings

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

2012949886778421606

Responsibility statement

edited and with a preface by William Shawcross

Sub title

the selected letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Summary

William Shawcross's official biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, published in September 2009, was a huge critical and commercial success. One of the great revelations of the book was Queen Elizabeth's insightful, witty private correspondence. Indeed, The Sunday Times described her letters as "wonderful ... brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness." Now, Shawcross has put together a selection of her letters, drawing on the vast wealth of material in the Royal Archives and at Glamis Castle. Queen Elizabeth was a prolific correspondent from her earliest childhood before the First World War to the very end of her long life at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and her letters offer readers a vivid insight into the real person behind the public face.--From publisher description

Table Of Contents

Pt. 1. Elizabeth -- pt. 2. Duchess of York -- pt. 3. Queen -- pt. 4. Queen Mother

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