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Louise Carpenter. An Unlikely Countess: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS
LOUISE CARPENTER
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
PART ONE
1 The Most Caring Place in the World
2 The Beginnings
3 Virescit vulnere virtus: Valour grows strong from a wound
4 Tea or coffee, ma’am?
5 Happy Days Are Coming
6 Becoming Mrs Budge
7 Lobotomised patients make good citizens
8 Carnival of the Animals
9 A Crazy House
10 Anglo-Catholic with charismatic overtones
PART TWO
11 Poor Love
12 My home is my castle
13 A Shoddy Day and Age
14 Will the Earl get a crumb of comfort?
15 Here, Sir!
16 I would have hated to commit murder
PART THREE
17 We have the name darling,but alas, we do not have the game
18 Poor Margot is ghastly
19 Never judge a person untilyou’ve walked a mile in their shoes
20 New places to wear diamonds
AfterwordThe Castaways
P.S. Ideas, interviews & features …
Approaching LilyLouise Carpenter talks to Louise Tucker. How did you become a writer?
‘The single benefit of small-town life was that it could eventually be left behind’: does Lily’s desire for a bigger life echo your own in any way?
Where did you start your research and how long did it take?
Did you ever get the impression from Randolph that he felt displaced since the book tackles his life and his family through the prism of Lily Budge?
Lily had immense ambition, yet often her successes are undermined by impulsiveness and her love life: did you ever find her frustrating?
Having met Randolph and written this book, do you have strong feelings about the usefulness of psychiatry and psychotherapy?
Do you think that the skills of a biographer, narrating a life you can only imagine, are similar to those used in novels, and would you consider writing fiction?
How did writing this book change you?
LIFE at a Glance
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Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Praise
About the Publisher
