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Valiant Minstrel - The Story of Harry Lauder - cover

Valiant Minstrel - The Story of Harry Lauder

Gladys Malvern

Publisher: Open Road Distribution

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Summary

The winner of the 1943 Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation Award, Valiant Minstrel tells the life story of beloved Scottish entertainer Harry Lauder, presented as a biographical novel. Gladys Malvern’s intimate account of Lauder’s humble beginnings in mills and coalmines and incredible thirty-year career, which saw him knighted, makes it clear why he was the highest paid theatrical performer of his time.   Malvern uses her gift for enthralling prose to recreate Lauder’s experiences in this page-turner, available for the first time in ebook.
Available since: 01/12/2016.
Print length: 198 pages.

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