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23 de oct. de 2005 · The Duff Cooper Diaries edited and introduced by John Julius Norwich Weidenfeld & Nicolson £20, pp496 'Keep a diary', says Mae West in Every Day's A Holiday, 'and some day it will keep you.' Duff ...
The Duff Cooper Prize was founded in memory of Alfred Duff Cooper by his friends, who wished to honour his love of books. Duff, though best known as a politician and diplomat, was also a successful writer of history, poetry and biography. As he declared in his autobiography, Old Men Forget: ‘Buying books has always been my weakness, and I ...
Alfred Duff Cooper ( Londres, 22 février 1890 – Vigo, 1er janvier 1954 ), 1er vicomte Norwich, est un homme politique britannique du Parti conservateur qui est ambassadeur à Paris et un personnage de la haute société européenne de l'époque. Il a écrit six ouvrages, dont une auto-biographie ( Old Men Forget ), une biographie de ...
10 de ene. de 2021 · Duff Cooper’s own memoirs discuss the trip in just sixteen pages of a total of 384, and even then this was interspersed with the other events of late 1939. 8 Unfortunately for researchers, his published diaries also skip the period entirely. 9 Perhaps partly because of this, John Charmley’s 1986 biography of Duff Cooper mentions the trip only in passing, affording four pages to the affair ...
Hace 1 día · Entre la selecta galería de grandes hombres ilustres y el inmenso almacén de personajes irrelevantes de la Historia, hay una grieta por la que se cuelan nombres como el de Alfred Duff Cooper. Cooper no fue Churchill, pero podía haberlo sido. Ambos eran aristócratas, etonianos, políticos, escritores, grandes oradores. Ambos hicieron la guerra. Ocuparon puestos en ministerios y compartieron ...
18 de ago. de 2019 · Duff Cooper weds Lady Diana Manners, June 1919. Shortly after they met, Duff wrote her: “Bores with God’s help we will never be.”. They weren’t. (Wikimedia) Born in 1890, Alfred Duff Cooper—always known as “Duff”—attended Eton and New College, Oxford before joining the Foreign Office.
If Duff Cooper's name has dimmed in the 50 years since his death, publication of these diaries will bring him to the fore once again. His family have long resisted publication - indeed Duff Cooper's nephew, the publisher Rupert Hart-Davis, was so shocked by the sexual revelations that he suggested to John Julius Norwich that it might be best for all concerned if they were burnt.
