Jennie (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ralph G. Martin
- First Published: 1969
- Time of Work: 1854–1895
- Setting: New York, London, Paris, Dublin, and Blenheim, Germany
- Principal Characters: Jennie Jerome, Lord Randolph Churchill, Leonard Jerome, Count Charles Andreas Kinsky, Winston Churchill
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Wives, Mothers, Parents and children, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Social life, Upper classes, Inheritance or succession, Politicians, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Wealth, Biography
- Locales: New York, Paris, France, London, England, Dublin, Ireland, Blenheim, Germany
Form and Content
The first volume of Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, entitled The Romantic Years, 1854–1895, is a traditional biography in that it opens with a brief account of Jennie Jerome’s immediate ancestry and then follows her through the first forty-one years of her life to the death of her husband, Lord Randolph Churchill. (The author, Ralph G. Martin, has completed the story of Jennie Jerome’s life in a second volume, entitled The Dramatic Years, 1895–1921 and published in 1971.) There is virtually no break in the chronological...
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