Jean, Lady Hamilton, 1861-1941 (ePub)
Diaries of A Soldier's Wife
(Sprache: Englisch)
"A pleasure to read. It's predominantly about the life of Jean Hamilton's husband Ian as an officer during the Great War and life for both before and after." -UK Historian
Jean, Lady Hamilton's diaries remained forgotten and hidden in the Liddell Hart...
Jean, Lady Hamilton's diaries remained forgotten and hidden in the Liddell Hart...
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"A pleasure to read. It's predominantly about the life of Jean Hamilton's husband Ian as an officer during the Great War and life for both before and after." -UK Historian
Jean, Lady Hamilton's diaries remained forgotten and hidden in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College, London, for fifty years. The story begins with the young couples' wedding, a dazzling bride, Jean Muir, marrying a star-struck Major Ian Hamilton. The daughter of the millionaire businessman Sir John Muir, Jean had all the money whilst Hamilton was penniless.
Having spent their early married years in India, the Hamiltons returned and set up house in the prestigious Hyde Park area of London, also eventually buying Lullenden Manor, East Grinstead, that they purchased as a country home from Winston Churchill when he could no longer afford it. Churchill in particular was like family in the Hamiltons' home; he used to go there and practice his speeches, and painted alongside Jean to whom he sold his first painting.
Jean chronicled Ian's long army career that culminated in the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. The failure there ended her husband's distinguished career and almost ended Churchill's as he had to leave his job as First Lord of the Admiralty.
This account is Lady Hamilton's "attempt to chronicle her husband's life as a top-flight but penniless soldier, this at a time when young Winston Churchill ... was emerging from his own distinguished and very colourful military career to enter a life of politics ... Jean Hamilton is one of those larger than life people of whom we know very little until a book such as Celia's comes along" (Books Monthly).
Jean, Lady Hamilton's diaries remained forgotten and hidden in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College, London, for fifty years. The story begins with the young couples' wedding, a dazzling bride, Jean Muir, marrying a star-struck Major Ian Hamilton. The daughter of the millionaire businessman Sir John Muir, Jean had all the money whilst Hamilton was penniless.
Having spent their early married years in India, the Hamiltons returned and set up house in the prestigious Hyde Park area of London, also eventually buying Lullenden Manor, East Grinstead, that they purchased as a country home from Winston Churchill when he could no longer afford it. Churchill in particular was like family in the Hamiltons' home; he used to go there and practice his speeches, and painted alongside Jean to whom he sold his first painting.
Jean chronicled Ian's long army career that culminated in the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. The failure there ended her husband's distinguished career and almost ended Churchill's as he had to leave his job as First Lord of the Admiralty.
This account is Lady Hamilton's "attempt to chronicle her husband's life as a top-flight but penniless soldier, this at a time when young Winston Churchill ... was emerging from his own distinguished and very colourful military career to enter a life of politics ... Jean Hamilton is one of those larger than life people of whom we know very little until a book such as Celia's comes along" (Books Monthly).
Autoren-Porträt von Lee Celia Lee
Celia Lee is an author and historian.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lee Celia Lee
- 2020, 400 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Pen and Sword
- ISBN-10: 1526786591
- ISBN-13: 9781526786593
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.12.2020
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