Sunday 3 November 2024

Hons and Rebels 2 (Pages 56 - 104)


 The family had a house in London, 26 Rutland Gate, in Kensington. 26 Rutland Gate is a large, detached house on Rutland Gate in the Knightsbridge district. In the 1920s and 1930s, the house was the London home during the Season of the Mitford family, who acquired the lease on the house for £28,000 after selling Asthall Manor, their country house in Oxfordshire

Saturday 2 November 2024

New Book - Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford (Pages 1 - 56)


 This is a memoir written by Jessica Mitford about her life with her family. Jessica Lucy "Decca"  Freeman-Mitford (11 September 1917 – 23 July 1996) was an English author, one of the six aristocratic Mitford sisters noted for their sharply conflicting politics.

The Foundling - Facts


 Bess leaves her baby girl in the Foundling Hospital in London. The Foundling Hospital was a children's home in London, founded in 1739 by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram.The Foundling Hospital was a home for abandoned children rather than a medical hospital. The first children were admitted to the Foundling Hospital on 25 March 1741. At first, no questions were asked about child or parent, but a note was made of any 'particular writing, or other distinguishing mark or token' which might later be used to identify a child if reclaimed. 

The Foundling by Stacey Halls


 First Published: 2020

In November 1747 Bess Bright leaves the baby girl she has just given birth to in the Foundling hospital in London. 

Trust - Facts


 Chloe grew up in the New Forest but she moved to London, which she prefers. The New Forest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Southern England, covering southwest Hampshire and southeast Wiltshire. 

Trust 3 - The End (Pages 226 - end)

 

RATING: VERY GOOD

SPOILERS!!!

Hons and Rebels 2 (Pages 56 - 104)

 The family had a house in London, 26 Rutland Gate, in Kensington. 26 Rutland Gate is a large, detached house on Rutland Gate in the Knights...