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Dawn Chorus
Contemporary Review, Feb, 2005
Dawn Chorus. Joan Wyndham. Virago. [pounds sterling]16.99. iv + 233 pages. ISBN 1-84408-152-4. The author of these memoirs was born in 1921 into a branch of the Wyndham family of Petworth. Her grandparents had built an enormous Victorian pile in Wiltshire and her memoirs begin with the fading glory of the monied classes of Victorian England.
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By use of family records, her own diary and some of her own letters she retells her life, including her parents' divorce, her mother's becoming a Catholic, her own adventures as a pupil in a convent school and eventually her time as a student at RADA. She ends in 1938 as the country avoids war with Germany and the crowds gather in Piccadilly Circus to dance the Lambeth Walk.
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