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    Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother
    Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother
    Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother
    Audiobook16 hours

    Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother

    Written by Anne Sebba

    Narrated by Joanna David

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    After a three-day romance, Brooklyn-born Jennie Jerome married into the British aristocracy to become Lady Randolph Churchill. At a time when women had few freedoms, she was a cornerstone of high society and behind-the-scenes political dynamo. However it was Jennie's love life that marked her out, causing scandal and earning her the epithet 'more panther than woman'. Yet, in many ways, Jennie was deeply loyal to her husband. When he was dying of syphilis she took him on a round-the-world trip to conceal his violence and mania. He returned in a straitjacket with only weeks to live. After Randolph's death her great project became her son, Winston...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateJul 1, 2008
    ISBN9781407428239
    Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother
    Author

    Anne Sebba

    ANNE SEBBA is a prize-winning biographer, lecturer, and former Reuters foreign correspondent who has written several books, including That Woman and Les Parisiennes. A former chair of Britain’s Society of Authors and now on the Council, Anne is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. She lives in London.

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    • 3/5
      I have never come across such absolutely ghastly people. Try as I may there was not one person in the book that had any redeeming features. Jennie most probably was the worst of all. Her and her entire family should have been thrown into debtors prison and sent to Australia. The entire so called upper class were a bunch of bigots, liars, anti-Semites (even the Rothschild's were), philanderers, louts and cads. My opinion of Winston has changed entirely after reading the book.
    • 4/5
      As a biographer of Jennie's sister-in-law, Lily, Duchess of Marlborough, I am always on the lookout for new information about Jennie and her Churchill family. This recent book summed up existing research in a workmanlike manner.