"Mercury Presides" 1954 FIELDING, Daphne (SOLD)
Price on Request
FIELDING, Daphne
[256] pp.
Eyre & Spottiswoode
1954
VG/ VG
Jacket design by A. Baynes
The Hon. Daphne Winifred Louise Fielding (née Vivian, formerly Thynne; 11 July 1904 – 5 December 1997) was a British author in the 20th century.
She moved in the world of the "Bright Young Things" in the 1920s and produced a series of popular books about high society.
Of Fielding's memoirs, Mercury Presides, Evelyn Waugh wrote: "Daphne has written her memoirs. Contrary to what one would have expected they are marred by discretion and good taste. The childhood part is admirable. The adult part is rather as though Lord Montgomery were to write his life and omit to mention that he ever served in the army."