The Rainbow Comes and Goes

by Diana Cooper

Overview

Lady Diana Cooper was a star of the early 20th stage, screen and social scene. This first installment of her sparkling autobiography tells of her upbringing, her beautiful artistic mother and aristocratic father, her debut into high society and the glittering parties—"dancing and extravagance and lashing of wine, and charades and moonlit balconies and kisses"—which were interrupted with the outbreak of World War I. This volume ends with Diana's marriage to the "love of her life," diplomat and politician Duff Cooper.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784873035
Publisher:	Penguin Random House UK
Publication date:	05/01/2019
Series:	Lady Diana Cooper's Autobiography , #1
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Lady Diana Cooper (August 1892-1986) was a society darling, actress and wife of politican Alfred Duff Cooper, DSO.

Table of Contents

1 No Shadows 1

2 The Castle on the Hill 14

3 Shades of the Prison-House 28

4 Brave New World 42

5 The Coterie 59

6 Pleasure at the Helm 73

7 Nurse Manners 91

8 Frustration and Folly 109

9 Dances of Death 118

10 The Glory and the Dream 139

11 The Happy Altar 200

12 The Plan 213

Appendix 227

Index 235

Editorial Reviews

"A delightful memoir" - Juliet Nicolson - Sunday Telegraph Magazine

"Poetic, idiosyncratic, poignant, funny, unflagging, scintillating, simple, stylish; not the book of the season, or of the bedside table; a book...to be read and reread and loved for a lifetime." - Evelyn Waugh -

"Lady Diana was no ordinary upper-class English rose: She was perhaps the first person from such a background to go on the stage, wowing audiences on both sides of the Atlantic" - - Washington Times

"Admired and adored as a classic beauty and first-division socialite during the frivolous Twenties and Thirties, Lady Diana was one of the last survivors of the set which revolved around the Prince of Wales and Mrs Simpson" - - The Times

"One of the glittering social personalities of an era of wealth and privilege, combining as she did exceptional grace and beauty with verve and a nature of deep and intense feeling" - - The Times

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