Like her descendant, Sir Winston Churchill, Sarah Duchess of Marlborough came nearer than most to knowing the full range of human experience. Her life was long and exciting. She knew favour and disfavour, eminence and exile, happiness and bitterness; she was wife, mother, widow, grandmother, and was forever wishing she had been a man.
Mr.David Green, whose books on Grinling Gibbons and on Blenheim Palace have established him as one of the most discerning authorities on the period, has produced the definitive biography of this most remarkable woman. Based on the huge collection of her papers preserved at Blenheim and printing much hitherto unpublished matter, this book is as distinguished for its scholarship as for the quality of its writing.
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