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Patrick Shaw Stewart, An Edwardian Meteor          Patrick Shaw Stewart, An Edwardian Meteor

Shaw Stewart was born into the Scottish gentry and was the cleverest and most interesting of a group of friends killed in the First World War. What this perceptive and long overdue biography so brilliantly evokes is the final flush of the Edwardian aristocracy before its sudden immersion in the realities of war. His close friends included Rupert Brooke, Raymond Asquith, Julian Grenfell, Duff Cooper, Diana Manners, Violet Asquith and Vita Sackville-West. Perhaps their greatest legacy is their correspondence – often revealing, occasionally intimate, always honest – which brings their world into focus and stands full square at the heart of this book.

MILES JEBB

Hardback, 248 pages + 16 pages b/w plates. ISBN 978-1-904-34977-8


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