THE HIGH-FLYING DUCHESS
by Meriel Buxton will be published by Woodperry Books in July 2008
Price £20.00  Postage and packing FREE within the UK.

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“Meriel Buxton has written an engrossing account of the life and times of the Duchess of Bedford. She was an extraordinary woman whose singular achievements are recorded with skill and perception. The Duchess represented all that was admirable in the now almost defunct notion of noblesse oblige.”
                                                                                                                        Professor J. E. Spence

“Coherent, composed and well organized… opens up windows on vanished worlds.”
                                                                                                                        Ashley Stokes

David St. John Thomas Charitable Trust Writing Awards

THE HIGH-FLYING DUCHESS: WINNER: SELF PUBLISHED BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008

MERIEL BUXTON: WINNER OF WINNERS PRIZE

Who was the Duchess?

What was her life in India like?

How different was life at Woburn Abbey at the time?

Read about her extraordinary range of interests and how she excelled at them all

Her memorial reads: Whose work was in the Hospitals, whose delight was in the Birds - Read about her work and her delight.

Why did she become famous as the Flying Duchess?

How did this book come to be written?