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Ancestors in the Attic: Including My Great-Grandmother’s Book of Ferns and My Aunt’s Book of Silent Actors

Ancestors in the Attic: Including My Great-Grandmother’s Book of Ferns and My Aunt’s Book of Silent Actors

Michael Holroyd
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Michael Holroyd, perhaps the most distinguished of contemporary biographers, has in recent years turned his attention to the stories hidden within his own fascinating family. In Ancestors in the Attic he teases out two especially intriguing episodes, the tales of his great-grandmother and his aunt, which he categorizes respectively as tragedy and comedy. He tells their stories not only in words but also in pictures, through two very different collections made by the women, which he discovered in the attic of a house in Maidenhead: the ferns preserved and stitched into beautiful, intricate patterns by his tragic great-grandmother, Anne Eliza Holroyd, in the 1870s; and the photographs of silent movie actors collected by his lively young aunt, Yolande Holroyd, in the 1920s. Included here are two volumes: My Great-Grandmother’s Book of Ferns and My Aunt’s Book of Silent Actors − a fascinating record of a very special family history. My Great-Grandmother’s Book of Ferns includes a foreword by leading pteridologist Martin Rickard. Christopher Fraser-Jenkins, world expert on Indian ferns, has identified, and provided a commentary on, the ferns used by Anne Eliza Holroyd.
Language
English
Pages
128
Format
Hardcover
Release
December 01, 2017
ISBN 13
9781910258842

Ancestors in the Attic: Including My Great-Grandmother’s Book of Ferns and My Aunt’s Book of Silent Actors

Michael Holroyd
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Michael Holroyd, perhaps the most distinguished of contemporary biographers, has in recent years turned his attention to the stories hidden within his own fascinating family. In Ancestors in the Attic he teases out two especially intriguing episodes, the tales of his great-grandmother and his aunt, which he categorizes respectively as tragedy and comedy. He tells their stories not only in words but also in pictures, through two very different collections made by the women, which he discovered in the attic of a house in Maidenhead: the ferns preserved and stitched into beautiful, intricate patterns by his tragic great-grandmother, Anne Eliza Holroyd, in the 1870s; and the photographs of silent movie actors collected by his lively young aunt, Yolande Holroyd, in the 1920s. Included here are two volumes: My Great-Grandmother’s Book of Ferns and My Aunt’s Book of Silent Actors − a fascinating record of a very special family history. My Great-Grandmother’s Book of Ferns includes a foreword by leading pteridologist Martin Rickard. Christopher Fraser-Jenkins, world expert on Indian ferns, has identified, and provided a commentary on, the ferns used by Anne Eliza Holroyd.
Language
English
Pages
128
Format
Hardcover
Release
December 01, 2017
ISBN 13
9781910258842

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