Daphne Vivian Fielding
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Hon. Daphne Winifred Louise Vivian (11 July 1904 – 5 December 1997) was a popular British author in the early 20th century.
She was the daughter of George Crespigny Brabazon Vivian, 4th Baron Vivian and Barbara Fanning. She married, firstly, Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath on 27 October 1927: they were divorced in 1953.1 She married, secondly, Major Alexander Wallace Fielding on 11 July 1953: they were divorced in 1978. As a result of her first marriage, her married name became Thynne; after her second marriage it became Fielding.
She moved in the world of the "Bright Young Things" in the 1920s and produced a series of popular books about high society.
[edit] Works
- Mercury presides (1954)
- The Adonis garden (1961)
- Duchess of Jermyn Street: Rosa Lewis (1964) ISBN 041325190X
- Emerald and Nancy: Lady Cunard and Her Daughter (1968) ISBN 0413259501
- The Rainbow Picnic: A Portrait of Iris Tree (1974) ISBN 0413285200
- Face on the Sphinx: Biography of Gladys Deacon (1978) ISBN 0241893143
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