A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations (Paperback) by Juliet Nicolson

from japaul22

This book is subtitled "a memoir of seven generations" and the author has created a multi-generational memoir of women in her family. The hook here for many readers, myself included, is that Vita Sackville-West was the author's grandmother. Nicholson has a sufficiently interesting family to make ...

from bogopea

Well-written, sometimes fascinating, brutally honest memoir of seven generations of the Sackville-West/Nicholson family. I liked it.

from Welsh_eileen2

Each chapter in this fascinating book concerns itself with famous ancestors, 2 daughters and a granddaughter of Juliet's. From her Spanish great, great grandmother, Pepita, growing up in Malaga, becoming a famous flamenco dancer and feted all over Spain via Vita Sackville West, the sometimes ambi...

from Welsh_eileen2

Each chapter in this fascinating book concerns itself with famous ancestors, 2 daughters and a granddaughter of Juliet's. From her Spanish great, great grandmother, Pepita, growing up in Malaga, becoming a famous flamenco dancer and feted all over Spain via Vita Sackville West, the sometimes ambi...