George Canning Is My Son
Mary Ann Hunn is known to history as the disreputable actress mother of the politician George Canning, a footnote to his story. Many books have been written about George, perennially controversial, which either ignore his mother, or dismiss her with a few patronising words.
But here, using her own 65,000-word memoir, and the remarkable 47-year correspondence between mother and son, supplemented by ...
Mary Ann Hunn is known to history as the disreputable actress mother of the politician George Canning, a footnote to his story. Many books have been written about George, perennially controversial, which either ignore his mother, or dismiss her with a few patronising words.
But here, using her own 65,000-word memoir, and the remarkable 47-year correspondence between mother and son, supplemented by ...
