Collection Four: Memoir

COLLECTION FOUR: MEMOIR

Memoirs are a thought-provoking way to see the world through the lives of others. In this collection, we travel through generations of inspiring women, hardworking playwrights, the turbulence of the 1960s, and the decadence of the 1980s.

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A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations by Juliet Nicolson

A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women, written by the grand-daughter of the creator of the famous Sissinghurst garden in the UK,Vita Sackville-West.


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The Blue Touch Paper by Sir David Hare

The fascinating story of becoming a writer in the 1960s and 70s when Britain was changing even faster than the author


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Negroland by Margo Jefferson

A journey into the insular and discerning society of upper-crust Black Chicago in the 1950s and 60s


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The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown

An incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood


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A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost by Frye Gaillard

A deeply personal history of a pivotal time in American life