'The problem with being an aristocratic woman is that one is usually defined as being something to somebody else' 🟠 Whatever Next? by Anne Glenconner is an extraordinary story of privilege and secret suffering, says brushingboots
Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, and Anne, on the island of Mustique in March 1973. In Whatever Next she describes the ‘thrashing’ he gave her, which burst her eardrum The problem with being an aristocratic woman is that one is usually defined as being something to somebody else. This has long been true of Anne Glenconner. She was the daughter of an earl, the wife of a peer, the mother of their children, and’s lady-in-waiting.
Having caught the literary bug, she then wrote two novels before this, her second memoir, which is packed full of new stories, and to her credit, doesn’t go over much of the same ground, instead peering further into the wounds she described the first time. Glenconner’s description of how, once upon a time, ducal nannies had their own specific benches in the park, speaks to a time long gone, but surely, at some point, one that will be recaptured on a Sunday night drama.
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