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Frances Victoria Osborne (née Howell) is an English author. She has written two biographies and one novel. She was the first wife of George Osborne, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer. Osborne's first biography, Lilla's Feast, tells the story of her great-grandmother's life and was published by Doubleday in September 2004.
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Francis Osborne (26 September 1593 – 4 February 1659) was an English essayist, known for his Advice to a Son, which became a very popular book soon after the English Restoration.
Frances Osborne was born in London and studied philosophy and modern languages at Oxford University. She is the author of two biographies; Lilla's Feast and The Bolter: Idina Sackville. Her first historical novel, Park Lane, will be published Summer 2012.
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Frances Osborne is a barrister turned investment research analyst, turned journalist and now author. Her second biography, The Bolter (2008), was shortlisted for Best Read in Britain, was a Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller and one of The San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year.
Buy in USA. Reading Guides. Visit Publisher. The Bolter: Idina Sackville – the woman who scandalised 1920’s society and became White Mischief’s infamous seductress. On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge’s Hotel in London’s Mayfair to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know.
30 de jun. de 2009 · When she was 13, Frances Osborne, author of “The Bolter,” a weirdly rumbustious and harrowing biography that takes us from London to Newport to Kenya, discovered that this insanely glamorous...
Frances Osborne. Photo: © Tony Buckingham. About the Author. Frances Osborne was born in London and studied philosophy and modern languages at Oxford University. She is the author of Lilla’s Feast and The Bolter. Her articles have appeared in The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Independent, the Daily Mail, and Vogue.
