Bibliograph

My darling Winston, the letters between Winston Churchill and his mother, edited by David Lough ; foreword by Randolph Churchill

Type

Label

My darling Winston, the letters between Winston Churchill and his mother, edited by David Lough ; foreword by Randolph Churchill

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

My darling Winston

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1023546769

Responsibility statement

edited by David Lough ; foreword by Randolph Churchill

Sub title

the letters between Winston Churchill and his mother

Summary

My Darling Winston is an edited collection of the personal letters between Winston Churchill and his mother, Jenny Jerome, between 1881--when Churchill was just six--and 1921, the year of Jenny's death. Many of these intimate letters-- between two gifted writers--are published here for the first time, and the exchange of letters between mother and son has never before been published as a correspondence. A significant addition to the Churchill canon, My Darling Winston traces Churchill's emotional, intellectual, and political development as confided to his primary mentor, his mother. As well as providing a basic narrative of Jenny's and Winston Churchill's lives over a forty-year period, My Darling Winston tells the story of a changing mother-son relationship, characterized at the outset by Churchill's emotional and practical dependence on his mother, but which is dramatically reversed as her life begins to disintegrate tragically towards its end

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