Mary S. Lovell, Author . Norton $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-393-01043-5
In her history of England's Mitford sisters, who were major figures in the international political, literary and social scenes for much of the 20th century, Lovell (The Sound of Wings: The Biography of Amelia Earhart; etc.) rises with aplomb to...
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Mary S. Lovell, Author . Norton $27.95 (555p) ISBN 978-0-393-06221-2
Born into the minor nobility, Bess of Hardwick rose to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in England, second only to Queen Elizabeth I. Lovell (The Mitford Girls
) presents Bess's life as a study in how education, connections,...
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Mary S. Lovell, Author St. Martin's Griffin $18.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-05160-0
This biography probes the promotional machinery that publicized her feats when Earhart was alive and gave rise to years of fantastic speculation and false hope about her fate after her disappearance in 1937. ``The book offers a colorful dimension to
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Mary S. Lovell, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (408p) ISBN 978-0-312-01096-6
The republication of West with the Night in 1983 rekindled interest in Beryl Markham, who wrote it in 1936 after her solo flight across the Atlantic. This is the story of a person who lived intenselyshe died at her Kenya home in 1986early on as a...
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Mary S. Lovell, Author St. Martin's Press $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-01895-5
Beryl Markham, the pioneer aviator and author of West with the Night, had many lovers, including her friend Isak Dinesen's husband, Bror Blixen, and lover, Denys Finch-Hatton. Although British freelance writer Lovell intrudes into the story, PW...
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Mary S. Lovell, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (420p) ISBN 978-0-312-03431-3
In this biography of Amelia Earhart, Lovell ( Straight on Till Morning ) explores the controversial relationship between the celebrated aviatrix and her publicist husband George P. Putnam, a brilliant and aggressive businessman who recognized...
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Mary S. Lovell, Author W. W. Norton & Company $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03895-8
When she was 21, Digby (1807-1881), a beautiful English aristocrat, shocked London society by leaving her husband and young son to pursue an Austrian diplomat with whom she was having a love affair. Digby's subsequent divorce was literally front-page
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Mary S. Lovell. Norton, $35 (640p) ISBN 978-0-393-06230-4
Lovell's previous biographical subjects, including Jane Digby and the Mitford sisters, connecting the upper classes of England and their long lists of lovers, mistresses, and scandals to the descendents of the Dukes of Marlborough, can now be seen...
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Mary S. Lovell. Pegasus, $27.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-68177-515-9
The Château de l’Horizon served as a social hub on the French Riviera between the 1920s and ’60s, and here Lovell (The Churchills: In Love and War) presents a textured and meticulously researched history of a scintillating era on the Mediterranean...
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