{"id":1953,"date":"2013-08-12T17:04:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T17:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2013-08-12T17:04:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T17:04:36","slug":"a-countess-on-campus-special-collections-discovers-a-downton-abbey-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2013\/08\/12\/a-countess-on-campus-special-collections-discovers-a-downton-abbey-love-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A countess on campus Special Collections discovers a &#8220;Downton Abbey&#8221; love story"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1954\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/128.226.136.91\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/tilly_beaton_web.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1954\" alt=\"BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Tilly Losch was a dancer, choreographer and artist, in addition to being Lady Carnarvon at Highclere Castle. This picture was taken by famous photographer Cecil Beaton.\" src=\"https:\/\/128.226.136.91\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/tilly_beaton_web.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/tilly_beaton_web.jpg 500w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/tilly_beaton_web-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/tilly_beaton_web-450x329.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS<br \/>Tilly Losch was a dancer, choreographer and artist, in addition to being Lady Carnarvon at Highclere Castle. This picture was taken by famous photographer Cecil Beaton.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The countess finished dictating her letter and peered out the hotel window at the snow swirling onto Fifth Avenue. Highclere Castle seemed a world away from Manhattan, and yet she wanted to be kept apprised of all that was going on in her new husband\u2019s life. With Britain just months into the war, the estate was going through another big jolt. Would this one spell the end of aristocratic life?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat will happen to poor Frederick?\u201d she asked. \u201cDid you get another butler, or is George or Robert doing it all? Who is looking after you \u2014 George or Robert? Has Marcus joined the Welsh Guards? And who is looking after the estate?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t an early summary of\u00a0<em>Downton Abbey\u00a0<\/em>Season 9. It\u2019s drawn from the real-life correspondence of Tilly Losch, an Austrian dancer and artist who married Lord Porchester, the sixth earl of Carnarvon, just before war broke out in 1939. Her letters, photographs and other personal memorabilia are part of the Binghamton University Libraries\u2019 Special Collections.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/magazine\/index.php\/magazine\/feature\/a-countess-on-campus\"><em>Binghamton University Magazine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The countess finished dictating her letter and peered out the hotel window at the snow swirling onto Fifth Avenue. Highclere Castle seemed a world away from Manhattan, and yet she wanted to be kept apprised of all that was going on in her new husband\u2019s life. With Britain just months into the war, the estate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-manuscripts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}