Elizabeth R : A Biography (signed)

Sihned & dated by the author, Weidenfeld & Nicolson publishers, illustrated, index, 389 pages, some wear to dustjacket otherwise condition : very good,

The Countess of Longford was a well known author and this book was signed by her in South Africa when her publisher brought her out for a visit in 1983.,Also known as Elizabeth Longford, she was a British historian and a member of the Royal Society of Literature and was on the board of trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London. She is best known as a historian, especially for her biographies of 19th-century aristocrats such as Queen Victoria (1964), Lord Byron (1976) and the Duke of Wellington (1969).