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Angel Dorothy

✍ Scribed by Brown, Jane

Book ID: 110321885
Publisher: Random House
Year: 2017
Tongue: en-GB
Weight: 6 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781783523146

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✦ Synopsis

Angel Dorothy is the inspiring biography of a formidable woman: wealthy American heiress Dorothy Elmhirst, who poured her considerable resources into founding Dartington Hall in 1925. What started as a progressive school rapidly transformed into a magnet for artists, architects, writers, philosophers and musicians, creating an exceptional centre for British cultural life. It was at Dartington in Devon that the Labour Party's post-war manifesto was written and the Arts Council was conceived.

Born in Washington, DC, into the influential Whitney family, Dorothy was a national darling: bells rang, flags flew and the American Navy's new fast tugboat was named Dorothy. Orphaned at seventeen, she started giving away her inheritance at eighteen and buried herself in social and political work. She maintained her status as an unmarried woman until she fell in love with and married her first husband, Willard Straight, in 1911.

Following Willard's untimely death,...

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