Dear Bookclub,
Discussion of Purnell's Pamela took a backseat to hours of catching up and reminiscing. Nostalgia lingered on our bookclub day-drinking from years-gone-by. Consuming tea and water, we finally got down to business to decipher the "Kingmaker".
Astounded by the finesse of Pamela Churchill Harriman, her long list of conquests, and her 'involvement' in many historic events, I wonder if the enchantment came naturally. Her attraction to the naughty great-great Aunt Jane Digby, certainly suggests an inherited gene or emulation or both.
Jane Digby is amazing and naughty or not, you decide:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/clips/around-the-world-in-80-days-s1-who-is-jane-digby/#
PBS Masterpiece Series!
Four centuries of Digby fortune welcomed Pamela at birth. A minor naval engagement, 'Action of 16 October 1799', part of the French Revolutionary Wars, involved British and Spanish forces and resulted in the acquistion of the wealth by Sir Henry Digby, an Admiral. Please enjoy this description:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_16_October_1799
HMS Ethalion in action with the Spanish frigate Thetis off Cape Finisterre, 16th October 1799, Thomas Whicombe.
The wealth waned yet Pamela's launch was impressive. Perhaps the poster child for Helen Gurley Brown tactics, who once famously quipped, "Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere.", Pamela did indeed get around. Remember these??
My suggestions for an upcoming read:
"Sargent's Women" Donna M. Lucey
"Mutinous Women" Joan DeJean* chosen
"Be Ready When the Luck Happens" Ina Garten
Up next:
Happy reading,
LK
No comments:
Post a Comment