A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven genera tions of remarkable women All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson a ccepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-gran dmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, her mothe r's Tory-conventional background. But then Juliet, a distinguished historia n, started to question. As she did so, she sifted fact from fiction, uncove ring details and secrets long held just out of sight. A House Full of Daughters takes us through seven generations of women. In t he nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-siecle Washingt on D.C., an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, the knife-edge that was New York City in the 1980s, these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who sh e is and where she has come from. A House Full of Daughters is one woman's investigation into the nature of family, memory, and the past. As Juliet finds uncomfortable patterns reflected in these distant and more recent versions of herself, she realizes her challenge is to embrace the good and reject the hazards that have trapped past generations.