A house full of daughters : a memoir of seven generations
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Edition
First American edition.
ISBN
0374172455, 9780374172459
Physical Desc
326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ;22 cm
Status
Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 306.874 NICOLSO 2016
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Format
Book
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
ISBN
0374172455, 9780374172459

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"Originally published in 2016 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
"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"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Nicolson, J. (2016). A house full of daughters: a memoir of seven generations (First American edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Nicolson, Juliet. 2016. A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Nicolson, Juliet. A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Nicolson, Juliet. A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations First American edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

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