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 t 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 t 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ww Norton & Co
ISBN-10
0393057720
ISBN-13
9780393057720
eBay Product ID (ePID)
107368853
Product Key Features
Author
Anne Sebba
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Biography: Historical, Political & Military
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
New York
Content Note
Illustrations
Author Biography
Anne Sebba is a biographer, journalist, lecturer, and author of six books, including the best-selling Mother Teresa: Beyond the Image and Laura Ashley: A Life by Design. She lives in London.