Contents
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
