More than forty-two years have passed since Ralph Martin began delving away inBritainon what was to become his master work: this biography of Winston Churchill’s mother. I remember our visit together to the palatial but cold and draughty halls of Blenheim, where the tenth Duke of Marlborough, puzzled by the perseverance and zeal of his American visitor, gave him access to his famed Muniment Room (the vast repository of the Churchill family archives, seen by so few people, in which there lay archival treasures almost beyond compare). Here were the many hundreds of letters written by the remarkable woman who was Churchill’s mother, but was so much more besides. Jennie Jerome, Lady Randolph Churchill, Mrs. George Cornwallis West, Mrs. Montagu Porch was a woman calling out for a biography. [download]
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