[Maud Russell]
Previously private and unpublished Maud Russell's diaries offer a valuable contemporary document of life during the Second War World. As owner of Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire Russell's life was filled with politics, high society, the arts and the country estate. All these strands are present in her diary entries with appearances by, and musings on, Boris Anrep, Cecil Beaton, Winston Churchill, Lady Sibyl Colefax, Ian Fleming, Henri Matisse, Rex Whistler and many more. Scarce in the desirable hardback edition.
Maud Russell. Edited by Emily Russell. Foreword by John Julius Norwich. The Dovecote Press Ltd. Wimborne Minster. 2017. First edition, first printing. Hardback, octavo; red boards, dust jacket. 319 pages. 8 colour and 16 b&w hors texte plates. English. 240 x 165mm. 0.74kg. 9780992915186. Fine, in fine dust jacket.
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