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    CLEMENTINE CHURCHILL: The Biography of a Marriage

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    By Winston Churchill’s youngest daughter, an illuminating biography of her extraordinary mother. This is a very good First American edition copy, in an unclipped dust jacket that has faded at the spine. The contents are fine.

    Affixed to the front free endpaper is an unattributed pencil sketch portrait signed in ink: “Clementine Spencer Churchill.” Loosely laid-in, as well, is a Typed Letter Signed by Lady Churchill, dated “19th September, , “declining to write the introduction for “a book about my husband’s writings and speeches,” together with a letter from Mary Soames authenticating her mother’s signature on the sketch.>/p> Quite a singular assemblage.

    -Extra-Illustrated with a Drawing Signed by Clementine Churchill and Letters from Clementine Churchill and Mary Soames Laid-In-

    First American Edition

    By: Mary Soames

    Houghton Mifflin C

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    Clementine Churchill

    Wife of Winston Churchill and life peer (–)

    "Lady Churchill" redirects here. For other uses, see Lady Churchill (disambiguation).

    Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill,[1]GBE (née&#;Hozier; 1 April &#;– 12 December ) was the wife of Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and a life peer in her own right. While she was legally the daughter of Sir Henry Hozier, her mother Lady Blanche's known infidelity and his suspected infertility makes her paternity uncertain.

    Clementine met Churchill in and they began their marriage of 56 years in They had five children together, one of whom (named Marigold) died aged two from sepsis. During the First World War, Clementine organised canteens for munitions workers and during the Second World War, she acted as Chairman of the Red CrossAid to Russia Fund, President of the Young Women's Christian Association War Time Appeal and Chairman of Maternity Hospital for the

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    Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill By Sonia Purnell

    Late in life, Winston Churchill claimed that victory in the Second World War would have been “impossible” without the woman who stood bygd his side for fifty-seven turbulent years. Why, then, do we know so little about her? In this landmark biography, a finalist for the Plutarch prize, Sonia Purnell finally gives Clementine Churchill her due. Born into impecunious aristocracy, the young Clementine Hozier was the mål of cruel snobbery. Many wondered why Winston married her, when the prime minister’s daughter was desperate for his attention. Yet their marriage proved to be an exceptional partnership. "You know,"Winston confided to FDR, "I tell Clemmie everything." Through the ups and downs of his tumultuous career, in the tense days when he stood against Chamberlain and the many months when he helped inspire his fellow countrymen and women to keep strong and carry on, Clementine made her husband&rsquo