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Lesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL (6 June 1904 – 7 May 2007) was a British writer, historian and traveller.
Welcome to the website of Lesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL (1904 – 2007), author of The Wilder Shores of Love; historian, journalist and travel writer. A scholarly romantic, Lesley Blanch influenced and inspired generations of writers, readers and critics.
May 11, 2007 · Lesley Blanch, an English writer and traveler best known for “The Wilder Shores of Love,” a biography of four 19th-century women who cast aside convention to seek adventure and romance...
Lesley Blanch is best-known for non-fiction titles, The Wilder Shores of Love, Journey into the Mind’s Eye, The Sabres of Paradise that bring to life Russia and the Middle East of the mid-twentieth-century.
Lesley Blanch’s epic account of the heroic and bloody struggles, and her vivid portrayal of the strange and magnetic rebel Imam who became a legend, is particularly relevant in light of the continuing conflict in Chechnya.
Feb 11, 2015 · One of the last true grande dames of the twentieth century, Blanch was a flamboyant and iconic writer who mixed travel memoir, scholarship and romance in a passionate, heady...
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Born in London in 1904, Lesley Blanch, who died in the south of France in 2007, must have been the last English writer to remember people wearing mourning for Edward VII. After her parents ran out of money, she had to live on her wits and her husbands.
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