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One might just as well have a discreet soul'Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon's extraordinary diaries, first published in 1967, are now considered a modern classic. The years covered in this volume, 1934-53, recall a vanished world where Channon's privileged orbit circled every social and public figure of the day in a round of parties, balls, country-house weekends and endless gossip. His position as ...
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Sir Henry (Chips) Channon was born in Chicago in 1897 (although he claimed 1899 as the year of his birth, until the true facts were exposed - to his embarrassment - in the Sunday Express). The son of a wealthy businessman, he accompanied the American Red Cross to Paris in 1917, was an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford, and then settled in London where he mingled with society and enjoyed ...
20. Jan. 2023 · A hundred or so pages into the diaries of Henry “Chips” Channon one realizes that this scribbling member of Parliament is a snob, a bigot, vain, self-deceived, entranced by the trivial, a bore ...
11. Okt. 2021 · Scandalous snob Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon was a renowned society host and keeper of name-dropping diaries. Fellow diarist Sasha Swire reveals how Chips inspired her own equally indiscreet memoir – ahead of a fabulously juicy panel event at Cliveden Literary Festival entitled ‘The Diary Enquiry’. No 5 Belgrave Square, London. 11 June ...
27. Mai 2021 · A Snob’s Progress. A new edition of Henry “Chips” Channon’s diaries gives fascinating glimpses of homosocial desire in a hectic narrative of aristocratic and political life. “I am very fond of Chips,” the London society hostess Maud Cunard declared in 1926, “and so is everyone else.” “I seem,” Chips himself remarked a few ...
Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon's extraordinary diaries, first published in 1967, are now considered a modern classic. The years covered in this volume, 1934-53, recall a vanished world where Channon's priviliged orbit circled every social and public figure of the day in a round of parties, balls, country-house weekends and endless gossip.
