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A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven years of impressive women. All households have their myths and legends. For quite some time Juliet Nicolson accepted hers: the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother, Pepita; the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother, Victoria; the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother, Vita Sackville-West; her mother's Tory-conventional history. But Juliet, a distinguished historian, started to question. As she performed so, she sifted fact from fiction, uncovering details and secrets long placed just out of vision. A House Filled with Daughters requires us through seven years of women. In the 19th-century slums of Malaga; the salons of fin-de-siecle Washington, DC; an British boarding school through the Second World War; Chelsea in the 1960s; the knife-edge that was New York City in the 1980s - these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who she is and where she's come from. A House Filled with Daughters is one woman's inspection into the aspect of family, recollection, and the past. As Juliet sees uncomfortable patterns mirrored in these distant and more recent versions of herself, she realizes her problem is to embrace the nice and reject the dangers that have captured past generations.
