Prime Ministers Wives

Author : Mark Hichens
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0720617596
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prime Ministers' Wives written by Mark Hichens and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much is required of a prime minister’s wife. As a hostess, sympathetic ear and adviser, she must ensure her husband never puts a foot wrong (and never do so herself). Arguably she has one of the hardest jobs in politics – without ever stepping into the House of Commons. Of the wives from the past two centuries featured in this book, nearly all have given their husbands unqualified support in political matters, two notable exceptions being Emily Palmerston and Clementine Churchill, who were always ready to dissent. And, until Audrey Callaghan and Cherie Blair, none had careers of their own. They came from a variety of backgrounds: some, such as Emily Palmerston, Caroline Lamb, Catherine Gladstone and Dorothy Macmillan, from the ruling classes. Two - Clementine Churchill and Margot Asquith - had aristocratic connections, while Lucy Baldwin’s father was a scientist, Mary Ann Disraeli’s was a junior naval officer and Margaret Lloyd George’s a Welsh hill farmer. In terms of their marriages, some were secure, some wobbly and one actually broke down. In the case of Clementine Churchill, her marriage to Winston of fifty-seven years was a particularly remarkable achievement. Mark Hichens examines these women - and one husband, Denis Thatcher - in the light of their personalities and achievements as well as the roles they have indirectly played in British history in this timely volume.

Author : Elizabeth Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wives of the Prime Ministers 1844-1906 written by Elizabeth Lee and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Lee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
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Download or read book Wives of the Prime Ministers, 1844-1906 written by Elizabeth Lee and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lavona Fercho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781480897649
Total Pages : 390 pages
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Download or read book Prime Ministers' Wives written by Lavona Fercho and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being the wife of a Canadian prime minister offers both rewards and challenges. In Prime Ministers' Wives, author Lavona Fercho presents a look at the wives and their lives as public figures. Beginning with Isabella Clark Macdonald and ending with Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, this collection of thirteen biographical sketches reveals how the role of the wife of Canadian prime ministers has developed throughout the years. Fercho depicts how each wife coped with the battles and intrusions they faced at the prime minister's residence at 24 Sussex Drive. She shares how some wives adopted a minimal public lifestyle, while the more gregarious accepted roles, of charitable chair positions, press conferences, as well as campaigns to promote their husband. Frank and revealing, Prime Ministers' Wives tells how each wife handled the extreme pressures of the position. Whether personal or public, reported experiences were of marital challenges including infidelity, parentage, alcoholism and mental illness as well as public verbal and physical assault, death threats, and unrelenting scrutiny while promoting a societal recognition of women for equal status.

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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Wives of the Prime Ministers, 1844-1906 written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331937579
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Wives of the Prime Ministers written by Elizabeth Lee and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wives of the Prime Ministers: 1844-1906 My most cordial thanks are due to Mrs. Drew for permission to print the extracts from Mrs. Gladstone's manuscript diary, and to reproduce the portrait which forms the frontispiece to this book; to Mr. Wilfrid W. Ashley, who most kindly invited me to Broadlands and gave me permission to print extracts from some of the letters of Lady Palmerston in his possession; to Lady Battersea for a similar permission in regard to letters from Mrs. Disraeli; and to the Hon. George Peel for information about Lady Peel's family and her early childhood. Thanks are also due to Mr. Stuart M. Ellis for information concerning Bulwer and Lady Caroline Lamb. It would be impossible to acknowledge separately the published sources consulted, but I have done so wherever possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Lavona Fercho
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480897663
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prime Ministers’ Wives written by Lavona Fercho and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being the wife of a Canadian prime minister offers both rewards and challenges. In Prime Ministers’ Wives, author Lavona Fercho presents a look at the wives and their lives as public figures. Beginning with Isabella Clark Macdonald and ending with Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, this collection of thirteen biographical sketches reveals how the role of the wife of Canadian prime ministers has developed throughout the years. Fercho depicts how each wife coped with the battles and intrusions they faced at the prime minister’s residence at 24 Sussex Drive. She shares how some wives adopted a minimal public lifestyle, while the more gregarious accepted roles, of charitable chair positions, press conferences, as well as campaigns to promote their husband. Frank and revealing, Prime Ministers’ Wives tells how each wife handled the extreme pressures of the position. Whether personal or public, reported experiences were of marital challenges including infidelity, parentage, alcoholism and mental illness as well as public verbal and physical assault, death threats, and unrelenting scrutiny while promoting a societal recognition of women for equal status.

Author : Heather Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780770425258
Total Pages : 484 pages
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Download or read book More Than a Rose written by Heather Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dorothy Kelley Patterson
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0805420630
Total Pages : 258 pages
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Download or read book A Handbook for Ministers' Wives written by Dorothy Kelley Patterson and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advice for women who are in the challenging role of being married to men who serve in ministry positions.

Author : Susan Crosland
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781861055255
Total Pages : 233 pages
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Download or read book The Prime Minister's Wife written by Susan Crosland and published by Robson Books Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing about the world she knows intimately, Susan Crosland, in her incisive and powerful new novel, exposes the effect of political power on marriage and love in today's Britain. Blanche Winslow, a Virginian, passionately loving and loyal by nature, meets and marries an idealistic young Englishman called Luke Dalton. He rises to become the British Prime Minister. Blanche, herself childless, becomes a top Fleet Street interviewer. In the love-hate relationship between politicians and the media, Blanche finds herself increasingly disillusioned by her husband's behaviour as Prime Minister. Her rebellion is encouraged by a growing friendship with Mark Fleetwood, the most articulate of Luke Dalton's press critics. Luke puts her disloyalty down to the self-destructive streak in her family. The Prime Minister and wife present a united front when dining at Buckingham Palace. But behind the scenes, conflicting loyalties, illicit love, violence and treachery are played out inside Numbers Ten and Eleven Downing Street, in the Chancellor's country house at Dorneywood, in the Foreign Secretary's private office. Back in Fleet Street, Blanche decides to break the final taboo.