Home to roost : and other peckings / Deborah Devonshire ; introduction by Alan Bennett ; edited by Charlotte Mosley ; drawings by Will Topley

Devonshire, Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish, Duchess of (1920-2014)

ISBN 10: 1848541899 / ISBN 13: 9781848541894

Published by London : John Murray, 2009

About this Item

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; viii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Subjects; Cavendish family. Devonshire, Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish Duchess of 1920-2014. Devonshire, Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish Duchess of 1920-2014 ; Anecdotes. Chatsworth (England). Nobility Great Britain ; Biography. Administration of estates England Derbyshire. Administration of estates. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Home to roost : and other peckings / Deborah Devonshire ; introduction by Alan Bennett ; edited by Charlotte Mosley ; drawings by Will Topley
• Publisher: London : John Murray
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848541899
• ISBN 13: 9781848541894
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis

'My father would not have wasted time reading - a trait I have inherited from him.'

The unmistakeable voice of Deborah Devonshire, the youngest of the Mitford sisters, rings out of this second volume of her occasional writings.

As broad and eclectic as her long and eventful life, the pieces range from a ringside view of John F. Kennedy's inauguration and funeral, a valedictory for her local post office, the 1938 London season, Christmas at Chatsworth and the hazards of shopping for clothes when your eyesight is failing.

Affectionate, shrewd and uproariously funny, her no-nonsense, bang-on-the-nail observations are as good as any antidepressant.

About the Author

The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire was brought up in Oxfordshire. In 1950 her husband Andrew, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, inherited estates in Yorkshire and Ireland, as well as Chatsworth, the family seat in Derbyshire, and Deborah became chatelaine and housekeeper of one of England's greatest and best-loved houses. Following her husband's death in 2004, she moved to a village on the Chatsworth estate. She died in 2014.