The secret life of the Savoy / Olivia Williams.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781643139579
- ISBN: 1643139576
- ISBN: 9781643137384
- ISBN: 1643137387
- Physical Description: xii, 323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-307) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Preface -- Richard. Curtain up ; Entertainment of a higher order ; 'Light of the future' ; Off on tour ; 'The Hotel de Luxe of the world' ; The carpet quarrel ; 'Everyone who comes, goes away highly pleased' ; Scandals ; Fluctuat nec migrator -- Rupert. Belle Époque ; No sackcloth and ashes ; Rupert's roaring twenties ; Curzon Street Baroque ; A scrum in Mayfair ; An heir and a spare ; Essence de civilisation -- Bridget. Reluctant heiress ; Static in the swinging sixties ; Pickwick and co. ; Bridget hangs on ; Curtain down -- Postscript: Claridge's Restaurant, July 1990. |
Summary, etc.: | "The captivating story of the famed Savoy Hotel's founders, told through three generations--and one hundred years--of glamour and high society."--Amazon.com In three generations, the D'Oyly Carte family and London's Savoy Hotel pioneered the idea of the luxury hotel and the modern theater, propelled Gilbert and Sullivan to lasting stardom, made Oscar Wilde a transatlantic celebrity, inspired a P. G. Wodehouse series, and popularized early jazz, electric lights, and Art Deco. Williams follows the history of the iconic Savoy Hotel through three generations of the D'Oyly Carte family. In doing so she brings to life the extraordinary cultural legacy of the most famous hotel in the world. -- adapted from jacket |
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Subject: | Carte, Richard D'Oyly, 1844-1901. D'Oyly Carte, Rupert. Carte, Bridget D'Oyly. Savoy Hotel (London, England) > History. Hotels > England > London > History. Hotelkeepers > England > London. |
Genre: | Biographies. |
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- 11 of 11 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Gunn Memorial Library - Washington. (Show)
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Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | 647.94 WIL (Text) | 34055145676833 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | 647.94 Wil (Text) | 33160150500646 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | 647.94 Wil (Text) | 33620150395487 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Minor Memorial Library - Roxbury | 647.940 WILLIAMS (Text) | 33630140204798 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Putnam Public Library | 647.94 WIL (Text) | 33610148410142 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Ridgefield Library | 647.94 WIL (Text) | 34010150297520 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Scoville Memorial Library - Salisbury | TRAVEL EUROPE UK WILLIAMS (Text) | 37538150303465 | Travel | Available | - |
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