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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in Philadelphia in 1916,
HELENE HANFF
spent much of her life as a struggling screenwriter in New York City. But it was her 1970 memoir,
84, Charing Cross Road
, that propelled her to fame and made possible the trip to London that inspired
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street.
She never married, and died in New York in 1997.

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ALSO BY HELENE HANFF

84, Charing Cross Road

Apple of My Eye

Letter from New York

Q's Legacy

Underfoot in Show Business

CREDITS

Cover design by Robin Bilardello

Cover illustrations: © aleksandarvelasevic / Getty Images (circle ornament); © Woodhouse / Shutterstock (clip art)

COPYRIGHT

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1973 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

THE DUCHESS OF BLOOMSBURY STREET.
Copyright © 1973 Helene Hanff. Introduction © 2016 Victoria Sykes. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hanff, Helene.

The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street / Helene Hanff

p.   cm.

ISBN 978-0-06-244218-5

EPub Edition July 2016 ISBN 9780062442048

1. Hanff, Helene--Journeys--England. 2. Women Authors, American--20th Century--Biography. 3. Booksellers and bookselling--England. 4. England--Description and travel. 5. American--Travel--England.

I. Title.        1995

PS3515.A4853Z464

818'.5409--dc20
                                                                                               
95-505

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