PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES: GROWING UP AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE by Lubbock, Adelaide - 1978

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. 196 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs, reproductions, family trees. "When the new Governor of Victoria (Australia), Sir Arthur Stanley, arrived in Melbourne in February 1914, he sensed that he should tread softly in a land where politicians were becoming increasingly radical and nationalistic. It was, moreover, a time when the power of a governor to dissolve an elected parliament was being debated more vigorously than at any time until recent years. Each week Lady Stanley posted home a witty and animated record of life in Australia. While she made her lively and often irreverent observations on politics, dignitaries, the arts, religion and World War I, a small daughter was wriggling, playing and frequently misbehaving with her brothers and sisters behind the scenes. Through a combination of her memories and her mother's letters, Adelaide Lubbock (nee Stanley) provides rare insights into the private and public life of a vice-regal household. This domestic view of life above and belowstairs at Government House is spiced with anecdotes about the famous people who were guests there." Moderate edge wear to boards, minor wrinkling to top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket is price-clipped, has light edge wear/wrinkling, mainly at top/bottom of spine, light rubbing. VG-/G. ISBN: 0241100593. First British Edition. Hard Cover.