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Origo's mother, Lady Sybil Cuffe, married William Bayard Cutting in 1901, and when the family was not traveling to the far corners of the earth, Iris spent her youth in the ancestral estate on Long Island and in her grandfather's castle in Ireland. Her father died tragically when she was eight, and she continued her peripatetic life with her indefatigable mother and beloved governess. A woman who always knew her mind, in 1923 Origo bought La Foce, an entire valley, almost feudal in organization, in the Val d'Orcia of Tuscany. There for fifty years she worked tirelessly with her husband, improving the land and the lot of the peasants, saving endangered children from the brutal incursions of the Nazis, and writing history and memoirs that are still considered classics of the genre.
Origo was at once a woman of action and introspection, of boundless curiosity and endearing innocence. She wrote beautifully, thoughtfully, and lucidly. As Raymond Mortimer once observed of this book, "A masterly biographer here recounts her own story . . . and in this biography she is at her best."
"A small classic of autobiography . . . Origo recreates the lost mad wold of Bernard Berenson and the Anglo-American artistic coterie in Florence. She is marvelous at nuances of place and personality, writing with a subtle mingling of candor and affection that lingers in the mind." -- Fiona MacCarthy
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Book Description Third Edition. Library copy. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Dust-wrapper taped. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xi, 278p., 16 plates, ill. ; 23cm. Subjects: Origo, Iris (1902-1988). Biographers -- United States -- Biography. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 309663
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Book Description Third Edition. Library copy. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Dust-wrapper taped. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xi, 278p., 16 plates, ill. ; 23cm. Subjects: Origo, Iris (1902-1988). Biographers -- United States -- Biography. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 309663
Book Description 2nd edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if slightly edge-torn and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xi, 278 p.,16 plates; ill; 23 cm.Notes: Includes index.Subjects: Origo, Iris marchesa. Origo, Iris 1902-Origo, Iris 1902-1988.Origo, Iris. Biographers United States; Biography.Critics Italy Biography.Literary historians England; Biography. Women biographers United States Biography. Orcia River Valley (Italy) Intellectual life 20th century. Genre: Autobiography. Illustrated. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 321548
Book Description Reprint. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: ex-library copy. Physical description: x, 278 pages, [16]p of plates: ill, ports; 23cm. Subjects: Origo, Iris 1902-1988. Origo, Iris. Biographers United States; Biography.Critics Italy Biography. Literary historians England; Biography. Women biographers United States Biography. Orcia River Valley (Italy) Intellectual life 20th century. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 345444
Book Description Reprint. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: ex-library copy. Physical description: x, 278 pages, [16]p of plates: ill, ports; 23cm. Subjects: Origo, Iris 1902-1988. Origo, Iris. Biographers United States; Biography.Critics Italy Biography. Literary historians England; Biography. Women biographers United States Biography. Orcia River Valley (Italy) Intellectual life 20th century. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 345444