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Storming the Castle tells the colorful upstairs/downstairs saga of two remarkable, unsung women of the Edwardian era, whose lives would intersect in Canada at that era's precipitate end. While the ninth Duchess of Devonshire and her cook were born to as different destinies as can be imagined, those destinies were forged in a singular historical moment. These were the last golden days of Empire, remembered as much for their splendor and pageantry as for their utter obliteration in the First World War. In this, la belle epoque, Ritz and Escoffier would reinvent magnificently the trappings of leisure, while women would attempt to reinvent the sexual hierarchy. This was the social and political backdrop in which Evelyn Lansdowne and Dorothea Mary Lee would find themselves. Evelyn, the beautiful daughter of Lord and Lady Lansdowne, was born to privilege. But privilege, as she would learn, had its price. Her marriage to Victor Cavendish soon to become the ninth Duke of Devonshire and later, Canada's Governor-General would literally and materially entitle her. But it would also cloak her in the increasingly heavy mantle of service to Queen and country. She was a woman divided, her needs a

Author

Downie, Jill, 1938-

Publisher

Key Porter Books Ltd ,Canada

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9781550139990

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir