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Barbara Olive Skelton (26 June 1916 – 27 January 1996) was an English memoirist, novelist and socialite.
She was a writer, a bohemian, a femme fatale – but, on her centenary, DJ Taylor asks who was the real Barbara Skelton?
9 de fev. de 2016 · Moreish memoirs from a glorious femme fatale. Barbara Skelton knew some of the most eminent men of her era – often intimately – and wrote down exactly what she thought of them. Rachel Cooke ...
Barbara Skelton, writer: born Maidenhead 26 June 1916; married 1950 Cyril Connolly (marriage dissolved 1956), 1956 George Weidenfeld (marriage dissolved 1961), 1966 Derek Jackson (marriage ...
It tells the story of Barbara Skelton, a well-born young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, who finds escape from the tedium of her life by leading a double life as a highway robber. Rich in historical detail and high on melodrama, the novel follows Barbara's infamous career of robbery, adultery and murder, without painting her entirely as a ...
Originally published in 1944, the Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton follows the career of Barbara Skelton, a 17 th -century noblewoman who, bored with married life, sneaks out at night to commit highway robbery, murder and adultery.
1 de fev. de 1996 · Barbara Skelton, a writer whose best subject was her own life of passionate abandon, died on Saturday in Worcestershire in western England from a brain tumor, The Times of London reported on...
