The Cast of Characters The Langhorne Family Tree 1 The Langhornes 2 Mr. Langhorne's Rock 3 Mrs. Langhorne's Violet Lunch 4 Mr. Shaw and Mr. Brooks 5 Going Back in the Boats 6 Nancy and the Astors 7 Nancy the Good 8 Conquering Society 9 The Marriage of Nora 10 The Returning Pilgrim 11 Phyllis and the Captain 12 Bright Young Men 13 Fly Sickness 14 Outbreak of War 15 Trenches 16 Dear Mr. Brand 17 The Men in the Room 18 Writing from School 19 The Right Honourable Nancy Astor, MP 20 Nancy the Ringmaster 21 The Boy Problem 22 Nora's Garden of Roses 23 Winkie and the Jazz Age 24 Nancy to Moscow, Bobbie to Jail 25 Papa Wants a Little Gun 26 Scott Fitzgerald's Intimate Strangers 27 A Shovel in the Post 28 Alone in the Universe 29 Cockburn's "Cliveden Set" 30 Fort Augustus Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

Chapter One

The Langhornes

The Langhorne sisters of Virginia were a phenomenon in America, in the South and then in the North, long before the third of Chillie Langhorne's five daughters crossed the Atlantic and became, as Nancy Astor, in 1919, the first woman t ... read full excerpt from: Five Sisters: The Langhorne Sisters of Virginia ebook