Balloons
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About This Book
Elizabeth "Asquith" Bibesco (1897-1945) was an English writer. A final posthumous collection of her stories, poems and aphorisms was published under the title Haven in 1951, with a preface by Elizabeth Bowen. As a teenager, during World War I, she was given opportunities to do "good works", organizing and performing in "matinees" for the servicemen. In 1919 she married Prince Antoine Bibesco, a Romanian diplomat stationed in London. It was the society wedding of the year, attended by everyone from the Queen to George Bernard Shaw. Between 1921 and 1940 Elizabeth wrote three collections of shor...
Chapters (52)
- BALLOONS
- ELIZABETH BIBESCO
- Author of "I Have Only Myself to Blame," etc.
- 1922
- CONTENTS
- BALLOONS
- I
- HAVEN
- [To Clarence Day, Jr.]
- II
- TWO PARIS EPISODES
- [To Anthony Asquith]
- III
- COURTSHIP
- IV
- "DO YOU REMEMBER——?"
- [To Leslie Hartley]
- V
- THE MARTYR
- [To H.G. Wells]
- VI
- A MOTOR
- [To Alice Longworth]
- VII
- THE MASTERPIECE
- [To Harold Child]
- VIII
- TEA TIME
- [To Sylvester Gates]
- IX
- THE END
- X
- MISUNDERSTOOD
- [To John Maynard Keynes]
- XI
- COUNTERPOINT
- [To the Marchese Giovanni Visconti Venosta]
- XII
- VILLEGIATURA
- [To Marcel Proust]
- XIII
- AULD LANG SYNE
- [To Harold Nicolson]
- XIV
- TWO TAXI DRIVES
- [To Paul Morand]
- XV
- A TOUCH OF SPRING
- [To W.Y. Turner]
- XVI
- FIDO AND PONTO
- THE END
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