Valerie Pakenham (1939–2023)
Autore di The Big House in Ireland
Sull'Autore
Opere di Valerie Pakenham
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Scott, Valerie Susan McNair (nee)
- Data di nascita
- 1939-11-13
- Data di morte
- 2023-01-22
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Hampshire, England, UK
- Causa della morte
- cancer
- Luogo di residenza
- Tullynally Castle, County Westmeath, Ireland
- Istruzione
- Oxford University (St. Anne’s College)
Birkbeck College, University of London - Attività lavorative
- author
architecture writer
Historian - Relazioni
- Pakenham, Thomas Francis Dermot, 8th Earl of Longford (husband)
Pakenham, Eliza (daughter)
Pakenham, Frank, 7th Earl of Longford (father-in-law)
Longford, Elizabeth (mother-in-law)
Fraser, Antonia (sister-in-law)
Billington, Rachel (sister-in-law) (mostra tutto 8)
Kazantzis, Judith (sister-in-law)
Kelly, Linda (sister) - Breve biografia
- Valerie McNair Scott was born to Major Ronald Guthrie McNair Scott and his wife the Hon. Mary Cecilia Berry. In 1964, she married Thomas Pakenham, later 8th Earl of Longford, an historian and arborist, making her Countess of Longford. Life in the Pakenham's ancestral home of Tullynally Castle -- a 19th-century Gothic Revival castle near the village of Castlepollard in County Westmeath, one of the Big Houses of Ireland -- provided her with material to write The Big House in Ireland (2002). Her reading of the many sporting and travel books amassed there by her husband's family over the years inspired her first book, The Noonday Sun: Edwardians in the Tropics (1986). She and her husband worked together on Dublin: A Traveller's Companion (2003). Her daughter Eliza Pakenham is also a writer.
Utenti
Recensioni
British upper class abroad, as discussed by Elspeth Huxley, Karin Blixen, and others
Statistiche
- Opere
- 5
- Utenti
- 150
- Popolarità
- #138,700
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 13
The editors grouped these literary snapshots into seven sections. Most of these are focused around neighborhoods in the city’s historic center and subdivided around landmarks, from the grandest public buildings to the most disreputable quarters. Here the momentous is interwoven with the mundane, as accounts of historic events are leavened with descriptions of social events and everyday life. Other sections focus on the area around Dublin, the city’s rich culture, and the dramatic events of the Easter Rising and the wars that followed. Taken together, they capture the drama of Dublin’s history, as well as provide a sense of how Dubliners lived their everyday lives.
Yet the strength of this anthology is not in its breadth of coverage but in the quality of the selections. Throughout its pages the Pakenhams demonstrate a judicious eye for the engaging story and the insightful anecdote. This is a book that entertains as well as informs, and I often found myself laughing as I read accounts of some of the more colorful figures that the metropolis has known. It is this quality which makes this book such an enjoyable way of discovering Dublin’s colorful legacy and the path it took to becoming the great city it is today.… (altro)