Adrian Fort
Auteur van Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor
Over de Auteur
Adrian Fort was educated at Oxford, where he was a Clarendon Fellow. He practiced as a lawyer and became involved with politics before pursuing a financial career. He has published many articles on financial and economic matters and has broadcast frequently on the radio. His previous books include toon meer Prof: The Life and Times of Frederick Lindemann and Archibald Wavell: The Life and Times of an Imperial Servant. toon minder
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Fort, Adrian
- Officiële naam
- Fort, Adrian
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Opleiding
- Oxford University
- Beroepen
- barrister
author (biographer) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Daily Mail / Biographers' Club prize (2001)
- Agent
- Alexandra Henderson (Peters, Fraser & Dunlop)
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- 3
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- 110
- Populariteit
- #176,729
- Waardering
- 3.3
- Besprekingen
- 1
- ISBNs
- 9
I thouroughly engoyed this book. This is a biography, not an imagination of what life would have been like. This explaines where she came from, the route she took - and suggests reasons why. I admit that I knew little, to be honnest nothing, about the first woman into parlyment but I feel that this had been changed. For a country which took so long to agree to let women vote, that still has few female MP's, I was surprised by how early she appears in parlyment but then the initial idea was that she would not stay.
just read to book - it is worth the effort.… (meer)