3 edition of Lord Berners found in the catalog.
Lord Berners
Mark Amory
Published
1998
by Chatto & Windus in London
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Written in
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-255) and index.
| Statement | Mark Amory. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | DA566.9.B45 A489 1998 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xiv, 274 p. : |
| Number of Pages | 274 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL21563203M |
| ISBN 10 | 1856192342 |
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Lord Berners is one of the most interesting eccentrics of the early 20th century, and this book gives many fascinating details about his life and his curious relationship with Robert Heber-Percy, the 'Mad Boy', whose grand-daughter has written it/5(59).
Lord Berners book. Read 8 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Composer, writer, painter, and eccentric millionaire, Lord Berners ( /5(8). The barony was created in for Sir John Bourchier, youngest son of William Bourchier, 1st Count Lord Berners book Eu, and younger brother of Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex and of William Bourchier, 9th Baron FitzWarin (from whom the Bourchier Earls of Bath descended).
He married Margery Berners, daughter of Sir Richard Berners. The peerage is so ancient as to have been established by writ, and thus. Lord Berners is the devil’s gift to a writer, a melancholy charmer of a man who seems more fitted to fiction than to life.
Heber-Percy, as his own Author: Miranda Seymour. Here lies Lord Berners/One of life's learners,Thanks be to the Lord/He was never reads the epitaph on the gravestone of Lord Berners.
In its witty way, it hints at his range of accomplishment. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky), writer, painter, Book Edition: Main. Berners, Lord Gerald Hugh Tyrwitt-Wilson Published by Turtle Point Press / Helen Marx Books, New York () ISBN ISBN Piano Composed by Lord Berners ().
Music Sales America. 20th Century. Book Only. Composed 62 pages. Chester Music #MUSCH Published by Chester Music (HL). Lord Berners was one of the most colourful and flamboyant personalities of his day. A composer, writer, painter, and eccentric (famous for dyeing his pigeons into rainbow hues), he knew everyone in the worlds of the arts and of society in the first half of the twentieth century, and formed the model for Lord Merlin in Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love.1/5(1).
Lord Berners, whose full name was Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, (born Apley Hall, Shropshire, 18 September ; died Faringdon House, Berkshire, 19 April ), was a British composer of classical music, novelist and is usually called Lord was an amateur composer who is remembered for his strange, eccentric behaviour.
Sofka Zinovieff is the author of four previous books, including The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me, and has worked as a freelance journalist and reviewer, her work appearing in the Telegraph Magazine, the Times Literary Supplement, the Financial Times, the Spectator, the Independent Magazine, and the London many years in Athens, she now divides her 5/5(1).
I spent a great deal of time this morning digging into my new book The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother & Me a memoir by Sofka Zinovieff. In her memoir, Zinovieff details the nature of her grandparent's relationship, or more fittingly, ménage à trios with the eccentric Lord Berners.
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Collected Tales and Fantasies Lord Berners Review by Michael Alec Rose. May Lord Berners the name can hardly be uttered without a sniff and a smirk. The author's full name says it all: Sir Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Baronet, 14th Baron Berners.
This peer of England, the last of his line, lived during the period ( Robert Heber-Percy was a dashing young man who would rather have a drink than open a book, so his involvement with Jennifer Fry, a gorgeous socialite famous for her style and charm, was not surprising. But by the time Robert met and married Jennifer, he had already been involved with a man—Gerald, Lord Berners—for more than a decade.
Lord Berners: Composer, Writer, Painter is a delicious mess of a book: no substitute for Mark Amory's biography, but an illustrated collection of interviews and reminiscences assembled by the. Lord Berners's daughter and heiress died inand her grandson, Sir Thomas Knyvett, petitioned the crown to grant him the barony, but died in before his claim could be ratified.
In Elizabeth, a great-granddaughter of Sir Thomas, was confirmed in the barony and bore the title of Baroness Berners, but she died without issue in Faringdon House in Oxfordshire was the home of Lord Berners, composer, writer, painter, friend of Stravinsky and Gertrude Stein, a man renowned for his eccentricity - masks, practical jokes.
Lord Berners: Composer, Writer, Painter is a delicious mess of a book: no substitute for Mark Amory's biography, but an illustrated collection of interviews and reminiscences assembled by the composer Peter Dickinson, most of them for a radio programme that went out as long ago as This is the second book I have read about Lord Berners, gay socialite of 's England; and prolific and talented composer, author and painter.
One point that the author seems to want to make apparent, is that money will not buy happiness, but it certainly works to create a glamorous life and an entree into the arts/5(7).Sofka Zinovieff was born in London, has Russian ancestry and has lived in Greece for many years.
Her latest book “Putney” is an explosive and thought-provoking novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a much older man.
