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26 de jul. de 2020 · Margot also became step-mother to Asquith’s five children from his first marriage. One of them, Violet Bonham Carter – grandmother of the actress Helena Bonham Carter – later wrote: “She flashed into our lives like some dazzling bird of paradise, filling us with amazement, amusement, excitement, sometimes with a vague uneasiness as to what she might do next.”
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith. Daughter of the industrialist and politician Sir Charles Tennant, a popular figure in society Margaret was acquainted with many of the leading politicians and thinkers of the day. In 1894 she married the future Prime Minister Herbert Asquith as his second wife.
Unlike H. H. Asquith, Margot started life with a silver spoon firmly in her mouth. She was born in Peeblesshire on 2 February 1864, the sixth daughter and eleventh child of Sir Charles Tennant, a wealthy iron master and later a Liberal MP. Margot was a woman of many parts. Educated privately, then briefly at a finishing school and eventually at ...
1 de sept. de 2023 · Margot Asquith: A Modern Woman. Born 150 years ago, Margaret Asquith (1864-1945) was a leading figure in social and political circles. In 1894 she married the future Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and became acquainted with many of the leading politicians and thinkers of the day. She was outspoken in her opinions and a strong supporter of the ...
1 de dic. de 2015 · Margot Asquith’s biographer explains why life at 10 Downing Street between 1912 and 1916 makes Downton Abbey look tame Anne de Courcy Tue 1 Dec 2015 12.31 EST Last modified on Thu 22 Feb 2018 10 ...
14 de mar. de 2024 · Dorothy Parker, "Re-enter Margot Asquith - A Masterpiece from the French," The New Yorker, October 22, 1927; Through the pages of [her book] Lay Sermons walk the great. I don't say that Margot Asquith actually permits us to rub elbows with them ourselves, but she willingly shows us her own elbow, which has been, so to say, honed on the mighty.
Emma Alice Margaret Asquith, comtesse d'Oxford et Asquith, née Emma Alice Margaret Tennan le 2 février 1864 dans le Peeblesshire et morte le 28 juillet 1945 à Londres, connue sous le nom de Margot Asquith, est une socialite anglo-écossaise, auteure et diariste. Elle était réputée pour ses mots d'esprit . Elle s'est mariée en 1894 avec ...
