Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1946-1969

The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter #3

by Violet Bonham Carter, Mark Pottle (editor)

This is the last volume in a set of three of the diaries and letters of Violet Bonham Carter. These are the writings of an active politician with an international standing, an advocate of European union, an opponent of apartheid, a seasoned campaigner for human rights and champion of Liberalism.

431 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2002

About the author

Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, DBE, known until her marriage as Violet Asquith, was a British politician and diarist. She was the daughter of H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister from 1908–1916, and later became active in Liberal politics herself, being a leading opponent of appeasement, standing for Parliament and being made a life peer. She was also involved in arts and literature.