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14 de jul. de 2022 · Cooper, Duff, Viscount Norwich, 1890-1954, Cooper, Duff, Statesmen -- Great Britain -- Biography, Hommes d'État -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies, Manners and customs, Politics and government, Statesmen, Biografie, Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century, Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century, Grande ...
10 de jan. de 2021 · Duff Cooper’s own memoirs discuss the trip in just sixteen pages of a total of 384, and even then this was interspersed with the other events of late 1939. 8 Unfortunately for researchers, his published diaries also skip the period entirely. 9 Perhaps partly because of this, John Charmley’s 1986 biography of Duff Cooper mentions the trip only in passing, affording four pages to the affair ...
If Duff Cooper's name has dimmed in the 50 years since his death, publication of these diaries will bring him to the fore once again. His family have long resisted publication - indeed Duff Cooper's nephew, the publisher Rupert Hart-Davis, was so shocked by the sexual revelations that he suggested to John Julius Norwich that it might be best for all concerned if they were burnt.
Biographical / Historical. (Alfred) Duff Cooper was born in February 1890, the son of Sir Alfred Cooper and Lady Agnes Cecil Emmeline Flower. He was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford. In October 1913 he joined the Foreign Office but was released in June 1917 to join the army as a Subaltern in the Grenadier Guards.
16 de jun. de 2011 · Books. Old Men Forget. Duff Cooper. Faber & Faber, Jun 16, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 400 pages. Politician, poet and diplomat, Lord Norwich - better known as Duff Cooper - compiled his autobiography with the aid of his detailed and frank diaries. The many entries he quotes in these pages lend immediacy and humour to some of the most ...
Duff Cooper fell in love with France during his first visit to Paris in 1900 and he remained faithful to her for the rest of his life. The fact that Paris in 1900 was deeply Anglophobic, because of the Boer war, had no effect upon Cooper's feelings for the city. His affection for France was no fair-weather plant.
10 de jan. de 2021 · Duff Cooper’s own memoirs discuss the trip in just sixteen pages of a total of 384, and even then this was interspersed with the other events of late 1939. 8 Unfortunately for researchers, his published diaries also skip the period entirely. 9 Perhaps partly because of this, John Charmley’s 1986 biography of Duff Cooper mentions the trip only in passing, affording four pages to the affair ...
