Past Forgetting: A Memoir of Heroes, Adventure and Love
Publishing Details
Past Forgetting: A Memoir of Heroes, Adventure and Love
By (Author) Lady Veronica Maclean
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Review
13th May 2002
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
941.1082092
Physical Properties
288
Width 241mm, Height 164mm
Description
Veronica Maclean was born in 1920 in the Scottish Highlands to the illustrious Fraser family and married the diplomat and politician Sir Fitzroy Maclean. PAST FORGETTING is the story of her life played out against the dramatic social, political and diplomatic history of the twentieth century. From her acquaintance with the Kennedys, Bushes and the Astors to her friendships with Belloc, John Singer Sargent and Freya Stark, PAST FORGETTING also charts her journeys overland to China, Persia and Yugoslavia, her lecture tours in America, and her medical mission to the Balkans in the late 1990s.
Reviews
Her autobiography combines the worldly and unworldly in a narrative that by turns amuses, saddens and charms. - Matthew Dennison, House & Garden
It is a compulsive read. - The Glasgow HeraldAuthor Bio
Veronica Maclean is the daughter of the 14th Lord Lovat, hereditary chief of Clan Fraser. She married the diplomat Sir Fitzroy Maclean in 1946 and travelled widely with him. She is a keen botanist and has created the garden at Strachur, Argyll in Scotland.
