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Preparing for her husband''s retirement from his parish, Michele Guinness, author of The Guinness Legend, decided to clear out the attic and in doing so rediscovered a trunk of letters, diaries, journals and notebooks, over one hundred years old, belonging to Grace Guinness, Peter''s grandmother.

Most famous for her unconventional marriage to renowned speaker and evangelist Henry Grattan Guinness, Grace''s journals reveal an extraordinary woman who in many ways was before her time: a rebel against the constraints of her narrow religious upbringing, unconventional in her choice of husband, defiant of a society that frowned on a well-bred single mother going out to work, a businesswoman who ran her own hotel, and an early feminist who believed in birth control.

She worked until she was in her seventies, read The Times every day, got through at least one book a week and could comment eruditely on politics, science, philosophy, theology, music and literatur

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...this fascinating narrative of a truly remarkable lady... a superb social commentary of her times. * The Irish Catholic *

Grace

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      Publisher John Murray Press
      Published 23 February 2017
      ISBN-13 9781444753417
      978-1444753417
      ISBN-10 144475341X
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      Christian life and practice

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Preparing for her husband''s retirement from his parish, Michele Guinness, author of The Guinness Legend, decided to clear out the attic and in doing so rediscovered a trunk of letters, diaries, journals and notebooks, over one hundred years old, belonging to Grace Guinness, Peter''s grandmother.

      Most famous for her unconventional marriage to renowned speaker and evangelist Henry Grattan Guinness, Grace''s journals reveal an extraordinary woman who in many ways was before her time: a rebel against the constraints of her narrow religious upbringing, unconventional in her choice of husband, defiant of a society that frowned on a well-bred single mother going out to work, a businesswoman who ran her own hotel, and an early feminist who believed in birth control.

      She worked until she was in her seventies, read The Times every day, got through at least one book a week and could comment eruditely on politics, science, philosophy, theology, music and literatur

      Trade Review
      ...this fascinating narrative of a truly remarkable lady... a superb social commentary of her times. * The Irish Catholic *

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