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A House Full of Daughters (2016)

door Juliet Nicolson

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"A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women. All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, her mother's Tory-conventional background. But then Juliet, a distinguished historian, started to question. As she did so, she sifted fact from fiction, uncovering details and secrets long held just out of sight. A House Full of Daughters takes us through seven generations of women. In the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-siecle Washington D.C., an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, the knife-edge that was New York City in the 1980s, these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who she is and where she has come from. A House Full of Daughters is one woman's investigation into the nature of family, memory, and the past. As Juliet finds uncomfortable patterns reflected in these distant and more recent versions of herself, she realizes her challenge is to embrace the good and reject the hazards that have trapped past generations"--… (meer)
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Like all her family, she is an interesting and engaging writer. As someone who reads everything Bloomsbury and has read all of her grandfather's diaries and writing, and most of her father's writing on his family and Virginia Woolf, this was a nice addition to the history. One thing I found very strange was she made absolutely no mention of her father's Nigel's younger brother Lionel Benedict...even at their father's funeral. She mentioned Kenneth Clark who was Benedict's boss at the funeral but not one word in the entire book except to note in passing that Vita had two sons. ( )
  Karen74Leigh | Dec 19, 2020 |
This book is subtitled "a memoir of seven generations" and the author has created a multi-generational memoir of women in her family. The hook here for many readers, myself included, is that Vita Sackville-West was the author's grandmother. Nicholson has a sufficiently interesting family to make this memoir fun to read. I, as is typical for me, enjoyed the sections about the past generations much more than the current generation. There's just something about having some space that makes for better writing. Nicholson is a little over-descriptive in her writing style for my taste (lots of adjectives), but overall this was fun to read if a bit forgettable. ( )
  japaul22 | Jun 22, 2018 |
This audio book was broken into only 5 15-minute segments, so I'm sure much of the story was eliminated. They probably did the story a disfavor in this, as I imagine that it was probably epic. Nonetheless, it was still interesting, all those lives across the ages, most rather sad. But how great to be able to track your ancestry and each life was worthy of it's own story. ( )
  Lit_Cat | Dec 9, 2017 |
Each chapter in this fascinating book concerns itself with famous ancestors, 2 daughters and a granddaughter of Juliet's.
From her Spanish great, great grandmother, Pepita, growing up in Malaga, becoming a famous flamenco dancer and feted all over Spain via Vita Sackville West, the sometimes ambivalent writer who's first love was Knole in Kent, a grand family house now owned by The National Trust.
Juliet writes fascinating life stories of the many strong independent ladies that are part of her family history.
A great book to dip into as each part can be read independently.
Very highly recommended. ( )
  Welsh_eileen2 | Feb 13, 2016 |
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"A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women. All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, her mother's Tory-conventional background. But then Juliet, a distinguished historian, started to question. As she did so, she sifted fact from fiction, uncovering details and secrets long held just out of sight. A House Full of Daughters takes us through seven generations of women. In the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-siecle Washington D.C., an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, the knife-edge that was New York City in the 1980s, these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who she is and where she has come from. A House Full of Daughters is one woman's investigation into the nature of family, memory, and the past. As Juliet finds uncomfortable patterns reflected in these distant and more recent versions of herself, she realizes her challenge is to embrace the good and reject the hazards that have trapped past generations"--

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