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Margot Fonteyn

Margot Fonteyn

Meredith Daneman

This is the biography of the much-loved dancer, Margot Fonteyn, generally considered to be the best British ballerina of her generation. She was one of the rare artists whose name means as much to the ordinary man and woman as to devotees of their particular art.
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Margot Fonteyn - born plain Peggy Hookham - was dreamed into existence by the architects of British ballet: Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton and Constant Lambert. Carried to fame on a wave of wartime patriotism, Margot's sense of duty rather than ambition propelled her forward. Yet her gifts were such that her pre-eminence would come to eclipse the careers of subsequent generations.Ballet is a fairytale world; if Margot, like the pure and poetic heroine of Swan Lake, was a natural Odette, she would also have to contend with virtue's raw shadow-side in the guise of Constant Lambert, Roberto Arias and Rudolph Nureyev - the men who, like Von Rothbart, were to take possession of her heart.

Product Description

Title - Margot Fonteyn

Edition -

Author - Meredith Daneman

ISBN 13 - 9780140165302

Imprint - Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher - Penguin Books Ltd

Date Published - 04/08/2005

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No. of pages -

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 129 x 198 x 41mm

Weight - 479 g

Languages - English