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John Betjeman: The Biography by Bevis Hillier
$49.95 AUD
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Category: General
This biography takes the reader from Betjeman's troubled childhood in north London, through his blossoming at Oxford; a gay fling with W. H. Auden; a clandestine marriage to a field marshal's daughter; pranks as a film critic; wartime service and probable espionage in Ireland, to the glory days of his l ...Show more
John Betjeman : The Bonus of Laughter by Bevis Hillier
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary
John Betjeman, appointed Poet Laureate in 1972, is celebrated as the most remarkable, most widely read and best loved poet of the twentieth century. Bevis Hillier's 'awe-inspiring' and 'enthralling' biography fascinatingly recalls Betjeman's extraordinary character. In this final volume, Betjeman is at ...Show more
The Virgin's Baby: The Battle of the Ampthill Succession by Bevis Hillier
$60.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1921 the Hon Mrs Christobel Russell, a famously spirited society beauty and the wife of the heir to Lord Ampthill, became pregnant while still a virgin, and gave birth to a son. Her virtue being challenged, she was medically examined by doctors and declared to be virgo intacta, despite her marriage. ...Show more
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