Georgina Battiscombe Quotes

1905–2006 England

Georgina Battiscombe (née Esther Georgina Harwood; 21 November 1905 – 26 February 2006) was a British biographer, focused on the Victoria era. Her biography of John Keble was awarded the 1963 James Tait Black Memorial Prize in Biography.

England
Authors
Biographers

Random Georgina Battiscombe quote

3 quotes

A picnic is the Englishman's grand gesture ...

English Picnics (1949)

... today even our débutantes are presented at a Garden Court, followed by a more or less picnic tea on the lawn. All classes and ranks share in this taste ...

English Picnics (1949)

Considerable difficulties, however, beset the way of Catherine Gladstone's biographer. Her life was so much bound up with her husband's career that to write an orthodox biography would merely be to repeat the story which has already been told with such fullness and brilliance by Lord Morley and Sir Philip Magnus.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Georgina Battiscombe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.