Anne de Courcy
Author of The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj
About the Author
Anne de Courcy is an English biographer and journalist. Her title's include: Kithcens, Making Room at the Top, Snowdon: The Biography, The Fishing Fleet: Husband Hunting in the Raj, and The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Works by Anne de Courcy
The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy (2017) 257 copies, 8 reviews
Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944 (2019) 116 copies, 2 reviews
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- Canonical name
- de Courcy, Anne
- Birthdate
- 1927
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
Barnsley, Gloucestershire, UK - Occupations
- writer
journalist
author - Relationships
- Hurst, Christopher (companion)
- Organizations
- London Evening News (Women's Editor)
Evening Standard (feature writer)
Daily Mail
Biographers' Club - Short biography
- Anne de Courcy is a well-known writer and journalist. In the 1970s she was the women's editor on the London Evening News and in the 1980s she was a regular feature writer for the Evening Standard. In 1992 she joined the Daily Mail, where she has written interviews, historical features and book reviews as well as edited a page on readers' dilemmas. She has written eight books including The English in Love, 1939: The Last Season, Circe: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry and a biography of Diana Mosley that will appear after the subject's lifetime. She lives in London.
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- Works
- 14
- Members
- 1,688
- Popularity
- #15,240
- Rating
- 3.5
- Reviews
- 54
- ISBNs
- 90
- Languages
- 4