Susan Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir (1882–1977)
Autore di John Buchan by his wife and friends
Sull'Autore
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Opere di Susan Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir
The lilac and the rose 5 copie
The Rainbow Through the Rain 2 copie
Mice on horseback 2 copie
The Silver Ball 2 copie
The scent of water. [A novel.] 1 copia
Opere correlate
Life's Adventure: extracts from the works of J. Buchan. Compiled by Susan Tweedsmuir — A cura di — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Baroness Tweedsmuir, Susan Buchan,
- Nome legale
- Tweedsmuir, Susan Buchan, Baroness
- Data di nascita
- 1882-04-20
- Data di morte
- 1977-03-21
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Burford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Attività lavorative
- novelist
playwright
children's book author
aristocrat - Relazioni
- Buchan, John (husband)
Buchan, Anna (sister-in-law)
Buchan, John Norman Stuart (son)
Buchan, James (grandson)
Buchan, William James de l'Aigle (son)
Buchan, Ursula (granddaughter) - Breve biografia
- Susan Buchan, née Grosvenor, was born in London, England, a daughter of The Hon. Norman de L'Aigle Grosvenor and his wife Caroline Susan Theodora Stuart-Wortley, and was a cousin of the Dukes of Westminster. In 1907, she married John Buchan, a novelist and politician, with whom she had four children. She became Baroness Tweedsmuir when he was created 1st Baron Tweedsmuir in 1935 and appointed Governor General of Canada. She wrote more than a dozen books and plays, including biographies of Lord Wellington and a memoir of her husband. Her works for children included Cousin Harriet (1957), about a pregnant unmarried girl in Victorian England. Other books included The Scent of Water (1937) and a book of essays, The Lilac and the Rose (1952).
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An easy evening's read. Susan Buchan was the aristocratic English wife of the celebrated Scottish writer, John Buchan. He was both Presbyterian and a Jacobite sympathiser (a position his Scottish forebears would probably have found puzzling). I therefore suspect that Susan Buchan may have been passing some sort of test in writing a book about Charlotte Stuart, the unfortunate daughter of Clementina Walkinshaw and Bonnie Prince Charlie. Charlotte was put in a series of impossible situations, but it is easier to sympathise with her than empathise, the sterling qualities of her grandmother Katherine Patterson (Lady Walkinshaw, and sadly not mentioned in the book) and her mother less evident in Charlotte. The Prince's behaviour after his defeat at Culloden has struck me as possibly the consequence of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and this is suggested by the account of his collapse when questioned about that period. The writer is perhaps a bit too credulous: people writing to ask for money, then as now, will write what they think will further their aims, and the information they muster needs to be treated with caution.… (altro)
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- Voto
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- ISBN
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Events occur to challenge and broaden Harriet's lack of experience in the socially complex and licentious world beyond her naïve country lifestyle. Misunderstandings of potential love affairs arise and resolve gratifyingly, guided by the expert deus-ex hand of ex-governess/mentor Miss Miller.
Tweedsmuir had masterfully subtly peppered innocuous behaviours into scenes that upon the ending and immediate second reading become afresh with new meaning (just like P&P!) Even without the glaze of social satire of P&P, Cousin Harriet is a perfect social period novel in its own right.… (altro)