The Countess From Kirribilli by Joyce Morgan

The Countess From Kirribilli by Joyce Morgan

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781760875176
Book Condition: Very Good
Author: Joyce Morgan
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Place: Crows Nest NSW
Year: 2021
Format: Paperback
Pages: 316 pages
Period: 19th and 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor edgewear.

She was Australian-born, an international bestselling author and a member of the glamorous literary, intellectual and society salons of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century London and Europe. She was 'amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle'. She was a whirlwind. She created around her the atmosphere of a Court where her friends were either in disgrace or favour, a butt or a blessing.


Elizabeth von Armin may have been born on the shores of Sydney Harbour, but it was in Victorian London that she discovered society, and society discovered her. She made her Court debut before Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace, was pursued by a Prussian count and married into the formal world of the European aristocracy.

The novels she wrote about that life turned her into a literary sensation on both sides of the Atlantic and had her likened to Jane Austen.

Her marriage to the count produced five children but little happiness. Her second marriage to Bertrand Russell's brother was a disaster. But by then she had captivated the great literary and intellectual circles of London and Europe.

She brought into her orbit the likes of Nancy Astor, Lady Maud Cunard, her cousin Katherine Mansfield and other writers such as E.M. Forster, Somerset Maugham and H.G. Wells, with whom it was said she had a tempestuous affair.

Elizabeth von Armin was an extraordinary woman who lived during glamorous, exciting and changing times that spanned the innocence of Victorian Sydney and finished with the march of Hitler through Europe. Joyce Morgan brings her to vivid and spellbinding life.



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