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tessisreading2 's review for:
The Duchess of Jermyn Street
by Daphne Fielding
Chatty "biography" of Rosa Lewis, the Edwardian cook/hotel proprietor who was known as "the duchess of Jermyn Street." An interesting read, but Fielding gets distracted by lengthy (multi-page) biographies/descriptions of hotel guests and upper-class friends and acquaintances of Rosa's - those are the people Fielding knew and it's generally through their eyes (and her own) that she shows Rosa. This can be fairly annoying. There is also an emphasis on the later period of Rosa's life, again because those are the people Fielding knew, or who can be reached for comment on Rosa; the Edwardian period is kind of gauzy and vaguely described (which makes sense since Rosa seems to have been, among her other skills, an inveterate liar) but the fun details and information really comes when describing the '20s and up. One doesn't get much of a sense of Rosa, to be honest, but the Bright Young Things of the period and their various antics do come alive, with Rosa as kind of a background figure.