Lantern Slides: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1904-1914

Through Violent Bonham Carters remarkable diaries and letters published here for the first time the decade before the first world war is seen from a unique ringside seat social as well as political. As eldest daughter of H.H Asquith liberal leader and prime Minister and step-daughter of the inimitable Margot Asquith Violet Bonham Carter was in a privileged position.