Philippa Pullar
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Philippa Pullar was a British author and jet set
personality best remembered for her exhaustively-researched 1975 biography of Irish-American author Frank Harris
. The biography involved great amounts of traveling and research, not least because Harris had intricately woven fact and fiction in his famous five-volume autobiography, My Life and Loves
.
Born Philippa King, she was daughter of an army major. She married Robert Pullar in 1958 and they had two sons. The marriage did not last and was dissolved before he died in 1996.
In later years Pullar became known as a devotee of New Age
thought, and prior to her death from cancer advocated various methods of natural and alternative healing.
Pullar had an extraordinary relationship with Michael Holroyd
(before he married the author Margaret Drabble) which is described in Holroyd's memoir Mosaic, published after her death.
Frank Harris - 1975
Gilded butterflies: The Rise and Fall of the London Season - 1978
Special Friends - 1979
The Shortest Journey - 1984 - ISBN 0-04-291018-8
To the Light - 1985
Spiritual and Lay Healing - 1988
(with Lilla Beck) Healing with Chakra Energy: Restoring the Natural Harmony of the Body - 1994
Jet set
"Jet set" is a journalistic term that was used to describe an international social group of wealthy people, organizing and participating all around the world in social activities that are unreachable to ordinary people...
personality best remembered for her exhaustively-researched 1975 biography of Irish-American author Frank Harris
Frank Harris
Frank Harris was a Irish-born, naturalized-American author, editor, journalist and publisher, who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day...
. The biography involved great amounts of traveling and research, not least because Harris had intricately woven fact and fiction in his famous five-volume autobiography, My Life and Loves
My Life and Loves
My Life and Loves is the autobiography of the Ireland-born, naturalized-American writer and editor Frank Harris . As published privately by Harris between 1922 and 1927, and by Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press in 1931, the work consisted of four volumes, illustrated with many drawings and photographs of...
.
Born Philippa King, she was daughter of an army major. She married Robert Pullar in 1958 and they had two sons. The marriage did not last and was dissolved before he died in 1996.
In later years Pullar became known as a devotee of New Age
New Age
The New Age movement is a Western spiritual movement that developed in the second half of the 20th century. Its central precepts have been described as "drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and then infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational...
thought, and prior to her death from cancer advocated various methods of natural and alternative healing.
Pullar had an extraordinary relationship with Michael Holroyd
Michael Holroyd
Sir Michael De Courcy Fraser Holroyd, FRHS, FRSL is an English biographer.-Life:Holroyd was born in London and educated at Eton College, though he has often claimed Maidenhead Public Library as his alma mater....
(before he married the author Margaret Drabble) which is described in Holroyd's memoir Mosaic, published after her death.
Books by Philippa Pullar
Consuming Passions: A History of English Food and Appetite. Dedicated "to Michael with my love" - 1970Frank Harris - 1975
Gilded butterflies: The Rise and Fall of the London Season - 1978
Special Friends - 1979
The Shortest Journey - 1984 - ISBN 0-04-291018-8
To the Light - 1985
Spiritual and Lay Healing - 1988
(with Lilla Beck) Healing with Chakra Energy: Restoring the Natural Harmony of the Body - 1994