My Darling Winston: The Letters Between Winston Churchill and His Mother

By David Lough

Book Overview

A significant addition to the Churchill canon, My Darling Winston traces Churchill's emotional, intellectual, and political development over a forty-year period as confided to his mother.

My Darling Winston is an edited collection of the personal letters between Winston Churchill and his mother, Jenny Jerome, between 1881--when Churchill was just six--and 1921, the year of Jenny's death. Many of these intimate letters-- between two gifted writers--are published here for the first time, and the exchange of letters between mother and son has never before been published as a correspondence.

A significant addition to the Churchill canon, My Darling Winston traces Churchill's emotional, intellectual, and political development as confided to his primary mentor, his mother. As well as providing a basic narrative of Jenny's and Winston Churchill's lives over a forty-year period, My Darling Winston tells the story of a changing mother-son relationship, characterised at the outset by Churchill's emotional and practical dependence on his mother, but which is dramatically reversed as her life begins to disintegrate tragically towards its end.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681778823
• ISBN13: 9781681778822
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"