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The Pain and the Privilege - Ffion Hague

The Pain and the Privilege

The Women in Lloyd George’s Life

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
416 Seiten
2009
HarperPerennial (Verlag)
978-0-00-721950-6 (ISBN)
CHF 22,65 inkl. MwSt
‘Men’s lives are a perpetual conflict. The life that I have mapped out will be so especially – as lawyer and politician. Woman’s function is to pour oil on the wounds – to heal the bruises of spirit…and to stimulate to renewed exertion.’


Lloyd George was a man who loved women and the tale of his intertwined relationships contains many mysteries and a few unsolved intrigues. He was involved in a divorce case early in his career, fought two libel cases over his private life and had persuaded the prettiest girl in Criccieth to be his wife. Lloyd George’s life was indeed a ‘perpetual conflict’. He was a habitual womaniser and, despite his early, enduring attachment to Margaret Owen, marriage did not curb his behaviour. There were many private scandals in a life devoted to public duty.


Ffion Hague illuminates his complex attitude to women. Her own interest stems from the many parallels in her own life.

Ffion Hague was born in Cardiff. A native Welsh-speaker, she studied English Literature at Oxford and then took an MPhil in Eighteenth-Century Welsh Poetry at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. After graduating a second time, Ffion joined the Civil Service and was posted to the Welsh Office. She held a number of policy positions before being appointed Private Secretary to the Secretary of State. On leaving the Civil Service, she became Director of Operations at the business-facing charity, Arts & Business. In 2000, she became a headhunter and since 2003, has been a director of Hanson & Green. Ffion was a trustee of The British Council and also a judge of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000. She is married to William Hague and lives in Yorkshire.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 2.4.2009
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 440 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-00-721950-4 / 0007219504
ISBN-13 978-0-00-721950-6 / 9780007219506
Zustand Neuware
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