Greetings Dear Reader.. WE have a sunny morning here in deepest Knightsbridge and so our plan was to go to garden.. until SHE checked the weather forecast.. grim.. heavy rain due and as it takes an hour to get there, it makes no sense to go and get wet and cold when there is always stuff to do at home.
If YOU have read the last post, YOU will have gathered SHE is on a history reading jag.. on HER last visit to favourite place aka library, SHE spied a book that connects directly to HER history.
'The Baroness' by Hannah Rothschild is the story of her great aunt 'Nica' Rothschild. The book takes YOU back in time telling warts and all about this extraordinarily gifted family and then brings the reader up into the present age.
YOU might wonder why the name of a famous American jazz pianist and composer is in the title of today's post.. well, Nica, by now married and on a trip away from her family, heard a record composed and played by Theolonious Monk and never went back home.
The author tells how she became aware of this
relative that she did not know.. how she meets her great aunt.. I know.. YOU are still floundering around in the dark wondering where I am going with this post..
Well.. the point is this.. IF Nica had not heard the music, she probably would have stayed married to her husband.. she would have lived a 'normal' life like so many other Rothschild daughters.
But she DID hear the music, she DID leave her family and because of these facts and several more for which YOU will have to read the book, her great niece wrote this book on her great aunt's
extraordinarily incredible life.. all of her life.. which included Tring Park as her childhood home.
So here, Dear Reader, is the connection, YOU see SHE was at school at Arts Educational Trust, Tring, in the same house in which Nica Rothschild was born and lived as a child.
SHE has often wondered what the house was like when 'the' family lived there and now SHE knows.
SHE wrote an email to the author thanking her for the book and giving the reader such a vivid impression of the house when it was a home.. SHE was charmed to receive a response which included "to think you probably slept in Nica's room".
Memo to Dear Readers Sally Dingle in France and Caroline Pizzini in Italy.. aka friends from Arts.. read this book..
SHE is off to Chinatown.. I am off to favourite door..
GeeGee Parrot.
November 3rd, 2013.
If YOU have read the last post, YOU will have gathered SHE is on a history reading jag.. on HER last visit to favourite place aka library, SHE spied a book that connects directly to HER history.
'The Baroness' by Hannah Rothschild is the story of her great aunt 'Nica' Rothschild. The book takes YOU back in time telling warts and all about this extraordinarily gifted family and then brings the reader up into the present age.
YOU might wonder why the name of a famous American jazz pianist and composer is in the title of today's post.. well, Nica, by now married and on a trip away from her family, heard a record composed and played by Theolonious Monk and never went back home.
The author tells how she became aware of this
relative that she did not know.. how she meets her great aunt.. I know.. YOU are still floundering around in the dark wondering where I am going with this post..
Well.. the point is this.. IF Nica had not heard the music, she probably would have stayed married to her husband.. she would have lived a 'normal' life like so many other Rothschild daughters.
But she DID hear the music, she DID leave her family and because of these facts and several more for which YOU will have to read the book, her great niece wrote this book on her great aunt's
extraordinarily incredible life.. all of her life.. which included Tring Park as her childhood home.
So here, Dear Reader, is the connection, YOU see SHE was at school at Arts Educational Trust, Tring, in the same house in which Nica Rothschild was born and lived as a child.
SHE has often wondered what the house was like when 'the' family lived there and now SHE knows.
SHE wrote an email to the author thanking her for the book and giving the reader such a vivid impression of the house when it was a home.. SHE was charmed to receive a response which included "to think you probably slept in Nica's room".
Memo to Dear Readers Sally Dingle in France and Caroline Pizzini in Italy.. aka friends from Arts.. read this book..
SHE is off to Chinatown.. I am off to favourite door..
GeeGee Parrot.
November 3rd, 2013.
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