Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill, a Portrait with Letters by Peregrine Churchi...

Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill
A Portrait in Letters
by Peregrine Churchill and Julian Mitchell
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Copyright 1974
Book Club Edition

Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill, is best remembered today as the American mother of a legendary Englishman:  Sir Winston Churchill.  But in her lifetime she was a legend in her own right.  When she and Randolph first met in 1873 she was nineteen, the beautiful, high-spirited daughter of flamboyant American speculator, Leonard Jerome.  Randolph was twenty-four, younger son of one of England's greatest dukedoms.  Only three days after their shipboard meeting, Randolph proposed and Jennie accepted -- to the shock and hostility of their parents.  But after a long battle they triumphed and embarked on a marriage which produced much joys, yet also misery.  There followed Randolph's meteoric rise in politics, his still more rapid fall and early death.  But Jennie was soon in love again, this time with George Cornwallis West, 'the handsomest man in England', a Guards officer twenty years her junior.  Society was outraged, and even the Prince of Wales stepped in to try to prevent their marriage.  When George went to the South African War, Jennie followed in the hospital ship Maine, and in the end they had their way.  Yet society proved right, the marriage did not last.  George eloped with the actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Jennie returned to a turbulent widowhood.  In the end she found a sort of peace in a third, more undemanding marriage.

Peregrine Churchill is Jennie's grandson, and Julian Mitchell wrote the scripts for the brilliant British television series Jennie:  Lady Randolph Churchill.  In this book they tell the story of Jennie and introduce the many unpublished letters which provide the background for the series.  Jennie and her contemporaries come vividly alive as their voices speak to us across the generations.  Historically this book is of great interest, but to all who care for humanity it will make no less enthralling reading.  "Do you remember all the fun we had together in the old days, dear Jennie?" asked Daisy Brooke.  "But I never regret anything, do you?  We have both lived our lives."  This is indeed the portrait of a woman who lived her life, who illuminated the age which she graced and still shines bright today.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages may be tanning and discolored from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the inside front endpaper.  Dust cover and dust cover flaps are tanning and discolored from age and show a bit of edge wear.

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