People In Glass Houses: Growing Up At Government House
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
A privileged childhood becomes a vivid window into the grandeur and peculiarities of colonial governance in Adelaide Lubbock's People in Glass Houses: Growing up at Government House. As the daughter of a succession of high-ranking British officials, Lubbock chronicles her remarkable upbringing within the rarefied world of Government Houses across the British Empire — from Australia to beyond — painting an intimate portrait of a life lived under public scrutiny, formal ceremony, and the quiet tensions of imperial duty. With a foreword by distinguished Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey lending scholarly gravitas, this memoir presents a world of polished silverware and protocol alongside the very human dramas that unfolded behind closed doors. Lubbock's prose is elegant yet candid, illuminating the contradictions of empire as seen through the eyes of a perceptive young woman — and leaving the reader to wonder how much of that glittering, fragile world was ever truly as it appeared.
Author: Adelaide Lubbock
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
A privileged childhood becomes a vivid window into the grandeur and peculiarities of colonial governance in Adelaide Lubbock's People in Glass Houses: Growing up at Government House. As the daughter of a succession of high-ranking British officials, Lubbock chronicles her remarkable upbringing within the rarefied world of Government Houses across the British Empire — from Australia to beyond — painting an intimate portrait of a life lived under public scrutiny, formal ceremony, and the quiet tensions of imperial duty. With a foreword by distinguished Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey lending scholarly gravitas, this memoir presents a world of polished silverware and protocol alongside the very human dramas that unfolded behind closed doors. Lubbock's prose is elegant yet candid, illuminating the contradictions of empire as seen through the eyes of a perceptive young woman — and leaving the reader to wonder how much of that glittering, fragile world was ever truly as it appeared.