Violet Bonham Carter (1887–1969)
Author of Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait
About the Author
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Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury (1887–1969); British politician born Violet Asquith as the daughter of Liberal Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. Created Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury in 1964. She grew up in a heavily political environment, living at Downing Street at the time her father was PM and socializing with key political figures of the day -- she was especially close to Winston Churchill. In 1915, she married her father's private secretary Sir Maurice Bonham Carter and was a grandmother of actress Helena Bonham Carter.
Her book Winston Churchill as I knew him published in the U.S. as Winston Churchill, an intimate portrait
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Series
Works by Violet Bonham Carter
Lantern Slides: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1904-1914 (1996) 43 copies, 2 reviews
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- Other names
- Asquith, Violet (birth)
- Birthdate
- 1887-04-15
- Date of death
- 1969-02-19
- Gender
- female
- Education
- at home
- Occupations
- politician
diarist - Organizations
- Liberal Party
- Relationships
- Asquith, Margot (stepmother)
Asquith, H. H. (father)
Asquith, Lady Cynthia (sister-in-law)
Bonham Carter, Helena (granddaughter)
Bonham Carter, Mark (son)
Bonham-Carter, Charles (brother-in-law) (show all 9)
Grimond, Jo (son-in-law)
Asquith, Herbert (brother)
Asquith, Raymond (brother) - Nationality
- UK
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
- Burial location
- Mells Churchyard, Mells, Somerset, England, UK
- Disambiguation notice
- Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury (1887–1969); British politician born Violet Asquith as the daughter of Liberal Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. Created Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury in 1964. She grew up in a heavily political environment, living at Downing Street at the time her father was PM and socializing with key political figures of the day -- she was especially close to Winston Churchill. In 1915, she married her father's private secretary Sir Maurice Bonham Carter and was a grandmother of actress Helena Bonham Carter.
Her book Winston Churchill as I knew him published in the U.S. as Winston Churchill, an intimate portrait - Associated Place (for map)
- England, UK
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Very political but an amazing insight into the mind of an English aristocrat daughter who never went to school, essentially self taught. The diary begins when she is 17 and is incredible in its clarity and signal intelligence.
Champion Redoubtable : The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1914-45 by Violet Bonham Carter
Slow going. Again, she is political and partisan infighting is boring. The lead up to war, Churchill's rise and fall and rise and fall. The deaths of friend's children, like the deaths of her friends in WWI a horrifying echo. Her favourite son's capture and the agony of a mother, the death of her son-in-law. I persevered through so much dullness for the nuggets of brilliance and history and fact. Now on to her third diary. Old age looms.
Bonham Carter (1887-1969) was the eldest daughter of H.H. Asquith, the Liberal leader who became prime minister of England. This is the first of a planned trilogy covering her diaries and letters, edited by her eldest son, a publisher and politician, and Pottle, a research fellow at Wolfson College. The diary begins in 1904, when Violet was 17 years old and visiting Paris. She was presented at court in 1905 and "came of age" in 1908. Entries feature her travels to Italy, Egypt, and America show more (where she dined with Theodore Roosevelt) and dinner conversations with Winston Churchill; the diary ends the year before her marriage to Maurice Bonham Carter, her father's principal private secretary. Some entries speak in the voice of a debutante evaluating the menu and guests at a dinner party, while in others the voice of a young woman mature beyond her years offers great insight into the world of British politics, with rich details about Edwardian society.
Violet Bonham Carter, the only daughter of H.H. Asquith, kept a diary from the age of 18. She moved in privileged circles with the great figures of the day and wrote revealingly about what she saw. This book contains a selection of her diaries and letters, covering the years 1904-1914.
Inside British politics and upper class social life in the decade before the first world war-by the daughter of the Prime Minister and Liberal leader,H H Asquith. Hitherto and revealing unpublished letters and diaries of a Prime Minister's influential daughter. show less
Violet Bonham Carter, the only daughter of H.H. Asquith, kept a diary from the age of 18. She moved in privileged circles with the great figures of the day and wrote revealingly about what she saw. This book contains a selection of her diaries and letters, covering the years 1904-1914.
Inside British politics and upper class social life in the decade before the first world war-by the daughter of the Prime Minister and Liberal leader,H H Asquith. Hitherto and revealing unpublished letters and diaries of a Prime Minister's influential daughter. show less
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