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Ralph G. Martin was an American journalist who authored or co-authored about thirty books, including popular biographies of recent historical figures, among which, Jennie, a two-volume (1969 and 1971) study of Winston Churchill's American mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, became the most prominent bestseller.
Oct 14, 2008 · Such were Lady Randolph Churchill’s thoughts on women’s influence in politics. The story of Jennie’s support to her husband, Lord Randolph Churchill, one of the most brilliant politicians of the late Victorian age, and to her son Winston Churchill, the greatest British statesman of the twentieth century, is significant and worth telling.
Mary. Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, [1] GBE ( née Hozier; 1 April 1885 – 12 December 1977) was the wife of Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and a life peer in her own right. While legally the daughter of Sir Henry Hozier, her mother Lady Blanche's known infidelity and his suspected ...
Major Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill [a] MBE (28 May 1911 – 6 June 1968) was an English journalist, writer and politician. The only son of future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, Randolph was brought up to regard himself as his father's political heir, although their relations became strained in ...
Oct 1, 2007 · Having spent 30 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, Ralph Martin's Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolf Churchill is the story of a girl from Brooklyn who became the toast of British society. Jennie, the most fascinating and desirable woman of her age, was once the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, and raised a son-Winston Churchill-who ...
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Apr 3, 2017 · Quotations in this article are from her biography American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill (2007). A few years after she was married, Jennie Jerome wrote to her mother Clara trying to close off a conversation: “Money is such a hateful subject to me just now…don’t let us talk about it.”
United Kingdom portal. v. t. e. Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill [a] (13 February 1849 – 24 January 1895) was a British aristocrat and politician. [1] Churchill was a Tory radical and coined the term ' Tory democracy '. [2] He participated in the creation of the National Union of the Conservative Party.
