Laura Talbot (1) (1907–1966)
Autore di The Gentlewomen
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Opere di Laura Talbot
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Talbot, Laura
- Altri nomi
- Chetwynd-Talbot, Lady Ursula (birth)
Stewart, Ursula
James, Lady Ursula Winifred - Data di nascita
- 1907-09-12
- Data di morte
- 1966-08-26
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
short story writer
aristocrat
playwright - Breve biografia
- Lady Ursula Chetwynd-Talbot was a daughter of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, Viscount Ingestre, and his wife Winifred Paget, and a granddaughter of the 20th Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury. She was married four times: firstly to Hector Stewart in 1930; secondly to Lt.-Cdr. Michael Burton Stewart in 1942 (div. 1952); thirdly to writer Patrick Hamilton in 1954; and fourthly to Dr. William Leonard James in 1964. She took the pen name Laura Talbot for her short stories, plays, and novels, which included The Gentlewomen (1952), Prairial (1950), Barcelona Road (1953), The Elopement (1958), and The Last of the Tenants (1961). She was killed in an air accident at age 58.
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- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 151
- Popolarità
- #137,935
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 3
- Lingue
- 1
Miss Bolby was born in India and, in her youth, was considered a beauty and a talented singer. Her parents discouraged a singing career, and she declined an early marriage proposal. When no further offers came, she was left to find her own way. Meanwhile, her sister Sita made a socially advantageous marriage and went to live in India with her husband. Miss Bolby constantly mentions her birthplace and her sister’s connections in a vain attempt to strengthen her own social status. The boarding house she previously lived in becomes her pied-à-terre, as if she could jaunt off for the weekend if she so chose. Sadly, no one cares, and Miss Bolby fails to command the respect she believes is her due. When Miss Pickford joins the household staff as a secretary, she unknowingly threatens Miss Bolby’s sense of identity and status.
Both Miss Bolby and Miss Pickford have been forced into lines of work they are poorly suited to, and are reliant on the upper classes for basic needs like food and shelter. While Miss Pickford seems to accept her lot in life, Miss Bolby strives to be seen as an equal with Lady Rushford and her contemporaries. Then Miss Bolby’s prized bracelets go missing and she begins to unravel, with consequences that ripple through everyone at Rushford. The Gentlewomen is brilliant satire, a moving character study, and a sad portrait of the single woman in wartime… (altro)