Daphne Fielding

Hon. Daphne Winifred Louise Fielding, née Vivian (11 July 1904 – 5 December 1997), was a popular British author in the early 20th century.

Fielding was the daughter of George Vivian, 4th Baron Vivian and Barbara Fanning. She married, firstly, Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath on 27 October 1927: they were divorced in 1953. She married, secondly, Major Alexander Wallace Fielding on 11 July 1953: they were divorced in 1978. As a result of her first marriage, her married name became Thynne; after her second marriage it became Fielding.

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."^[1]

Works

• Mercury presides (1954)
• The Adonis garden (1961)
• Duchess of Jermyn Street: Rosa Lewis (1964) ISBN 0-413-25190-X
• Emerald and Nancy: Lady Cunard and Her Daughter (1968) ISBN 0-413-25950-1
• The Nearest Way Home (1970)
• The Rainbow Picnic: A Portrait of Iris Tree (1974) ISBN 0-413-28520-0
• Face on the Sphinx: Biography of Gladys Marie Deacon (1978) ISBN 0-241-89314-3

References

1. ^ "Obituary: Daphne Fielding: The wife of Bath's tale," Anne Chisholm. The Guardian, 20 December 1997, page 17.

External links

• Entry at ThePeerage.com
• Obituary: Daphne Fielding, The Independent, 17 Dec 1997 by Hugo Vickers

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Name	Fieldin, Daphne
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Date of birth	11 July 1904
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Date of death	5 December 1997
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