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Flights Of Fancy - The Love Letters of Margaret McLaren-Reid - cover

Flights Of Fancy - The Love Letters of Margaret McLaren-Reid

Richard Cullen

Casa editrice: Envelope Books

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Margaret McLaren-Reid was a society debutante and good-time girl in the 1920s, who enjoyed partying, dancing, flirting and the devotion of two husbands. Richard Cullen wades through over 700 letters to reconstruct her experience of life in the British Empire during the interwar years and subsequently as a wife on the diplomatic circuit.
Disponibile da: 05/09/2025.
Lunghezza di stampa: 260 pagine.

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