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Description

1. 313 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. "Opening with the shooting of Lady Virginia 'Ginie' Courtauld in her tranquil garden in 1950s Rhodesia, The Dragon Lady tells Ginie's extraordinary story, so called for the exotic tattoo snaking up her leg. From the glamorous Italian Riviera before the Great War to the Art Deco glory of Eltham Palace in the thirties, and from the secluded Scottish Highlands to segregated Rhodesia in the fifties, the narrative spans enormous cultural and social change. Lady Virginia Courtauld was a boundary-breaking, colourful and unconventional person who rejected the submissive role women were expected to play. Ostracised by society for being a foreign divorcée at the time of Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson, Ginie and her second husband, Stephen Courtauld, leave the confines of post-war Britain to forge a new life in Rhodesia, only to find that being progressive liberals during segregation proves mortally dangerous. Many people had reason to dislike Ginie, but who had reason enough to pull the trigger?"--Publisher description.

Subject

1. Biographical fiction
2. Self-actualization (Psychology) > Fiction
3. Fiction
4. Historical fiction
5. Rhodesia and Nyasaland > Fiction
6. Attempted murder > Fiction
7. Divorced women > Fiction
8. FICTION > Biographical
9. Peirano, Virginia, 1885-1972 > Fiction
10. Liberalism > Rhodesia > Fiction
11. Segregation > Fiction

Genre/Form

1. Biographical fiction.
2. Fiction.
3. Historical fiction.

Call number

1. JFD 20-1089

Author

1. Treger, Louisa, author.

Title

1. The dragon lady / Louisa Treger.

Publisher

1. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Caravel, 2019.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Other form:

1. Ebook version : 9781448217397

ISBN

1. 1448217261 (hardback)
2. 9781448217267 (hardback)
3. 9781448217458 (paperback)
4. 1448217458 (paperback)

Research call number

1. JFD 20-1089