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Violet Bonham-Carter, grandmother to actress Helena Bonham-Carter, was a close friend of Churchill for most of her life. She offers her own personal view of Churchill for 'whatever it is worth' and does not claim it to be a in depth analysis of the man, or a comprehensive history of his life and work.
Violet Bonham Carter var 1923-1925 och 1939-1945 president för Women's Liberal Federation och från 1944 president för den National Liberal Party. Bonham Carter, som under andra världskriget energiskt stödde Winston Churchills politik, var 1941-1946 chef för British Broadcasting Corporation.
Edwardian society and politics. The early death of Violet's mother drew her closer to her father, who in 1892 became home secretary in Gladstone's last administration. Asquith spoke to his young daughter, who had a precocious intellect, ' on even terms, as though to a contemporary ' (V. Bonham Carter, memoir, Bonham Carter MSS).Irish home rule and prison reform, she later recalled, became ...
Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baronesa Asquith de Yarnbury, DBE ( 15 de abril de 1887 - 19 de fevereiro de 1969) conhecida até que seu casamento como Violet Asquith, foi uma política e escritora britânica. Ela era filha de Herbert Henry Asquith, primeiro-ministro liberal do Reino Unido entre 1908 e 1916, e de sua primeira esposa Helen Kelsall ...
Helena Bonham Carter. Actress: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful. Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant banker. Through her ...
Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait, Volume 2. Violet Bonham Carter. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965 - Prime ministers - 413 pages. The author was Churchill's close personal friend for nearly sixty years. Her book focuses on the formative and crucial years from 1906 to 1916 that shaped his political style as well as his philosophy; it ...
Violet Bonham Carter. 15 books4 followers. Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, DBE, known until her marriage as Violet Asquith, was a British politician and diarist. She was the daughter of H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister from 1908–1916, and later became active in Liberal politics herself, being a leading opponent of ...
