Those Wild Wyndhams

This is a book about 'those wicked wicked Wyndhams' -- three beautiful, cultured aristocratic sisters born into immense wealth in late Victorian Britain. Rich historical biography to appeal to readers of Georgiana and Stella Tillyard's Aristocrats from brilliant debut writer. Mary, Madeline and Pamela -- the three Wyndham sisters -- were painted by John Singer Sergeant in 1899. For The Times it was, quite simply, 'the greatest picture of modern times'. These beautiful, rich fin de siecle women clad in white came to epitomize a vanished world. The languor of their pose reflects the leisured, gilded, existence of the late Victorian aristocracy that was to be dealt a deathblow by the impact of the First World War. Yet the lives of these three Wyndham sisters were far more turbulent than their air of calm suggests. Brought up in artistic and liberal circles, their childhood was freedom loving and filled with romance medieval fantasies. All...