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American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill Hardcover – Illustrated, November 17, 2007
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A frank account of the tempestuous life of the American mother of Britain’s most important twentieth-century politician.
Brooklyn-born Jennie Jerome married into the British aristocracy in 1874, after a three-day romance. She became Lady Randolph Churchill, wife of a maverick politician and mother of the most famous British statesman of the century. Jennie Churchill was not merely the most talked about and controversial American woman in London society, she was a dynamic behind-the-scenes political force and a woman of sexual fearlessness at a time when women were not supposed to be sexually liberated. A concert pianist, magazine founder and editor, and playwright, she was also, above all, a devoted mother to Winston. In American Jennie, Anne Sebba draws on newly discovered personal correspondences and archives to examine the unusually powerful mutual infatuation between Jennie and her son and to relate the passionate and ultimately tragic career of the woman whom Winston described as having “the wine of life in her veins.”- Print length416 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication dateNovember 17, 2007
- Dimensions6.5 x 1.4 x 9.5 inches
- ISBN-100393057720
- ISBN-13978-0393057720
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- Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company; Illustrated edition (November 17, 2007)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 416 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0393057720
- ISBN-13 : 978-0393057720
- Item Weight : 1.77 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.5 x 1.4 x 9.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,432,165 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,920 in Historical British Biographies
- #2,342 in England History
- #3,106 in Deals in Books
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Thank you for visiting my author page. It's a great opportunity to be in touch with my readers, to hear your response to my books and to say thank you for your support and interest. I really appreciate feedback so do please get in touch via twitter @annesebba or via my website www.annesebba.com.
I was born in London and went to London University where I read History, specialising in 20th century French History. I then lived in Rome where I worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters followed by a couple of years in New York, where I started my freelance career.
I have written nine non- fiction books for adults since then mostly biographies of iconic women such as Mother Teresa, Laura Ashley and Jennie Churchill, Winston’s American Wife. In 2011, I published That Woman a life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor based on a hidden archive of letters that I discovered in an attic and in 2016 Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940’s (Weidenfeld & Nicolson UK )or Les Parisiennes How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died under the Nazi Occupation according to the US version. (St Martin’s Press US) It was described as ‘fascinating and beautifully written’ by the Spectator. http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/07/keeping-up-appearances-in-1940s-paris/
I am thrilled finally to be writing about France in the 1940s after all those years when I studied it at University. I hope you find it a fascinating story too.
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If you love the glamour of Paris, politics of Britain, there is much to be admired about this book. Jennie Churchill married nobility Randolph Churchill which many American aristocratic women of the time would use their newfound family wealth to bring new life to the landholding dukes and Lords of England.
Sebba is a wonderful writer whose research pays off in this book. Been months since I read this and I am still awe inspired by Jennie Churchill's strong feminism. She was a cougar before there was such a thing.
She campaigned for her husband to get into Parliament.