Simon Blow

My family’s better days

Claudia Renton's Those Wild Wyndhams captures the riches and rage of the famous high-society sisters — Mary, Madeline and my great-grandmother Pamela

The Wyndham Sisters, 1899, by John Singer Sargent. Left to right: Madeline, Pamela and Mary [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]

  • Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power

    Claudia Renton

    William Collins, pp. 492

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