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...Esmond Cecil Harmsworth,* Lord Rothermere, whose Associated Newspapers Ltd. publishes the Daily Mail, the Evening News, the Sunday Dispatch, the blatantly sensational Daily Sketch and a string of provincial newspapers. Combined circulation...
Jessica, the one with the slyboots expression, married a Red, Esmond Romilly, but then, he was a nephew of Sir Winston Churchill. In fact, that marriage is what much of this book is about...
...described the tragedies that went into the making of the "rueful being"-particularly the death of Thackeray's infant daughter Jane and the insanity of his young wife Isabella. The new volume shows the saddened giant in his prime-the famed, wealthy author of Vanity Fair and Henry Esmond; the doting father of two idolizing, teen-age daughters; the hero and leading spirit of all who detested the rambunctious literary supremacy of Charles Dickens. Author Ray's biography is less remarkable for its discussion of Thackeray as a novelist than for its description of Thackeray...
...Another daughter, Jessica, married the late Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchill's Communist nephew...
...first-rate historical novel represents a strong and magical act of imagination: a great deal of learning may have gone into it, but the scaffolding has then been removed. Thackeray's Henry Esmond and Robert Graves's I, Claudius put the reader in the presence of the past; Proud Destiny puts before him only popularized history...