Edith Templeton
1 873429 65 7
£12.99
256 pp plus 16pp b/w illustrations
bibliography notes index
Pbk with flaps 140 by 215mm portrait
Published in association with Ostara Publishing
A strip-tease Baedeker
Cyril Connolly
Mrs Edith Templeton sojourned in old towns of North Italy - Cremona, Parma, Mantua, Urbino and Arezzo. None before her has been so frank, so robust, so comprehensive. Tremendous, fun, companionable, evocative and informing
Edith Shackleton in The Lady
A ruthless, ironic, exasperating, immensely amusing companion
Sunday Times
It's extremely witty and sophisticated, and simpatico - I was touched by it from time to time and found myself laughing or smiling practically all the time. Her descriptions of places and their history are beautifully written and high-spiritedly knowledgeable, while the sketches of the Italians she meets (chiefly Italian men!) are dazzingly sharp-eyed, yet, to my mind, appealing
William Cooper
Edith Templeton, Bohemian aristocrat, accomplished novelist and widow of the physician to the King of Nepal wrote this highly individual account of her visit to six North Italian towns in the early fifties. Wonderfully evocative of the time and the places, her vintage narrative is a gem of travel literature but has been unavailable for many years. Anita Brookner's introduction to this new edition gives a beautiful analysis of the astringent wit and classic poise of Templeton's writing.
