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Lesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL (6 June 1904 – 7 May 2007) was a British writer, historian and traveller. She is best known for The Wilder Shores of Love, about Isabel Burton (who married the Arabist and explorer Richard), Jane Digby el-Mezrab (Lady Ellenborough, the society beauty who ended up living in the Syrian desert with a Bedouin chieftain), Aimée du Buc de Rivéry (a French convent woman ...
Learn about Lesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL (1904 – 2007), who wrote The Wilder Shores of Love and other books on women, culture and adventure. Explore her life, work, interviews and legacy on her official website.
May 11, 2007 · Lesley Blanch was born in London on June 6, 1904, to a cultured if not entirely wealthy family. “My father was a very clever and cultivated man, ...
Lesley Blanch always chose what she wanted to write: this is the only one of her books to have been written on the basis of a commission. The biography of Farah Diba – from an ancient Azerbaijani family of landowning nobility – who married His Imperial Majesty The Shahanshah of Iran in 1959, it vividly evokes the Shahbanou’s personal family life and public works, set against the ...
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. The great leader and his fiercely proud warriors haunt the Russian psyche to this day.
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Jan 24, 2017 · The traveller, journalist and biographer Lesley Blanch, who died in the south of France aged 103, was as good as they get. Lesley and my mother, Gael Elton Mayo , met in New York in 1951 through ...
A scholarly romantic, Lesley Blanch influenced and inspired generations of writers, readers and critics. Her first book, The Wilder Shores of Love — the stories of four ninteenth-century women who followed the beckoning Eastern star — pioneered a new kind of group biography focusing on women escaping the boredom of convention.
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