·
A new book
about Evan Morgan’s notorious weekend
house parties has been published by Book
Midden Publishing.
·
The compiler
is Newport
writer/historian William Cross, FSA
Scot, author of eight other books
featuring members of the Morgan family.
“ You might find, among thirty guests, Mrs Rosa Lewis of the Cavendish
Hotel, the King of Greece, [poet WB] Yeats, the Metropolitan of Thyatira, a
Berlin hustler, Princess Arthur of Connaught,
a dog-breeding baroness from Hamburg, and so on and so on, while two
distracted secretaries, Captain [Harry] Ware and ‘Mother S’ [Mrs. Emily
Sutherland], somehow managed to make practical sense of what looked on the
surface like another department of the Zoo.”
Alan Pryce- Jones
Essential
reading for those interested in Newport’s most famous family and their history and those who want to know the truth about
Evan’s hospitality and who he invited to stay under his 500 year old roof
during his early years as the lord of the Manor.
The book is 150 pages long, over 55,000 words with over 400 End Notes.
The main text contains over 100
images. There is also a directory of over
300 guests whom Evan entertained, with biographical details, and dates when
they visited Tredegar House, some
entries have photographs .
Further Enquiries about
the book etc please contact
William
Cross
58
Sutton Newport , Newport , NP 19 7JF
e-mail
williecross@aol.com
THE BOOK IS AVAILABLE DIRECT FROM THE AUTHOR AND ON E-BAY AND AMAZON
21 October 2019
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