Pamela Plowden Archives - Richard M. Langworth

Girlfriends: Was Winston Churchill a Young Bacchanal?

30 March 2023 Comments 0 Comments

Churchill and Lord Rosebery once dated a pair of “Gaiety Girls.” Each of them took one home. Alas, Winston’s date later told Rosebery he’d “done nothing but talk into the small hours on the subject of himself.” This sounds familiar from reports by his actual lady friends. (Clementine Hozier said the same.)

His Mother’s Son: “My Darling Winston,” David Lough, Ed.

2 October 2018 Comments 0 Comments

David Lough, editor, My Darling Winston: The Letters Between Winston Churchill and His Mother. London: Pegasus, 610 pages, $35, Amazon $33.25, Kindle $15.49. Reprinted from a review for the Hillsdale College Churchill Project. For Hillsdale reviews of Churchill works since 2014, click here. For a list and synopses of books about Churchill since 1905, visit Hillsdale’s annotated bibliography.

See also my tribute to Lee Remick as “Jennie.” and Part 1 of the film.

David Lough…

…added significantly to our knowledge with No More Champagne (2015), his study of Churchill’s finances. Now he fills another gap in the saga with this comprehensive collection of Churchill’s exchanges with his mother Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill.…