All in one basket
Collects anecdotes about friends from Evelyn Waugh to John F. Kennedy; tales of struggle and success at Chatsworth, England's greatest stately home; and tales of her beloved chickens, which the Duchess began raising as a child.
| Main Author: | Devonshire, Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish, Duchess of, 1920- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Picador
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st Picador ed. |
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| Summary: |
Collects anecdotes about friends from Evelyn Waugh to John F. Kennedy; tales of struggle and success at Chatsworth, England's greatest stately home; and tales of her beloved chickens, which the Duchess began raising as a child. |
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| Item Description: |
Originally published in 2011 by John Murray (Publishers), Great Britain. Counting my chickens was first published in 2001 by Long Barn Books, Great Britain ; Home to roost was first published in 2009 by John Murray (Publishers), Great Britain. |
| Physical Description: |
vii, 359 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781250013804 1250013801 |
| Author Notes: |
Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire , was brought up in Oxfordshire, England. In 1950 her husband, Andrew, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, inherited extensive estates in Yorkshire and Ireland as well as Chatsworth, the family seat in Derbyshire, and Deborah became chatelaine of one of England's great houses. She is the author of Wait for Me!, Counting My Chickens and Home to Roost , among other books, and her letters have been collected in The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters and In Tearing Haste: The Correspondence of the Duchess of Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor . Following her husband's death in 2004, she moved to a village on the Chatsworth estate. |