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Article: A mixture of Bovril and champagne
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 23, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Augusta Gregory's early life could have been dreamed up by
Trollope. In 1880 the plain, intelligent daughter of the
Philistine, horsy Persse clan in County Galway, on the shelf at 27,
astounds local society by marrying Sir William Gregory of the
neighbouring Coole Park. He is a 62-year-old liberal-Conservative
grandee, retired governor of Ceylon and ex-MP for the county,
familiar with London salons, a friend of Tennyson and Browning: he
may, in fact, have been one of the inspirations behind Phineas
Finn. Augusta exchanges a life spent trailing around estate
cottages with her frantically evangelical mother for a house at
Hyde Park Corner hung with Velzquez paintings, long sojourns in ...
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