{"product_id":"lady-eleanor-smith-a-short-story-collection-audiobook","title":"Lady Eleanor Smith - A Short Story Collection (Audiobook)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLady Eleanor Smith - A Short Story Collection (Audiobook)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead by Lisa Bowerman, Janet Fullerlove, Elliot Fitzpatrick(Unabridged: 03:08mins)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing stories by Lady Eleanor Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eLady Eleanor Furneaux Smith was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside in England on the 7th August 1902 into a privileged family steeped in titles and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart of her education was at Miss Douglas's school at Queen's Gate. Here she met and befriended several other young women that the British tabloid press would later call the ‘Bright Young Things’, a group of bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in 1920s London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmith's paternal great-grandmother, was said to have been a Gypsy, and this sparked an early and life-long interest with the Romani people, she even went so far as to learn to read and speak the language, which she called ‘musical and broken.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer life was full of adventure and mishaps. A mistaken encounter with a man she thought could help her into the film business turned out to threats of marriage and death from a man wanted for the murder of his father. She was even arrested twice. Once for listing her career as a journalist and another, in Rome, for walking around in a sleeveless dress.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmith began her career writing society gossip columns for various newspapers but later received an offer to write for the newly-formed Great Carmo Circus, with which she travelled for several years and was the source material for many of her books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer first novel, ‘Red Wagon’, was published when she was 28 and it was an immediate bestseller. A prolific writer several of her works were also adapted for films.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmith also wrote ghost stories and others flavoured with evil. Her support for the Conservative party may be forgiven but her attributed quote to be a ‘warm adherent of General Franco’ less so.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLady Eleanor Furneaux Smith died on the 20th October 1945 in Westminster after a long illness. She was 43.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 - Lady Eleanor Smith - An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 - One O'Clock by Lady Eleanor Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 - Tamar by Lady Eleanor Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4 - Whittington's Cat by Lady Eleanor Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deadtree Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43438849065038,"sku":"AB-477113","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1194\/4786\/files\/9781835477113_Lady_Eleanor_Smith_A_Short_Story_Collection.jpg?v=1790936917","url":"https:\/\/www.deadtreepublishing.com\/products\/lady-eleanor-smith-a-short-story-collection-audiobook","provider":"Deadtree Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}