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Line 1: [[Image:Addlebook.gif\|thumb\|right\|300px\|Front cover of "''Lady Addle Remembers''" - "The portrait shows myself as "India" in the Church pageant of 1897]] '''Lady Blanche Addle''' was a fictitious character created by the British author [[Mary Dunn (author)\|Mary Dunn]] (~~1900 -1958~~1900–1958) First published in the 1930s Dunn's Lady Addle books amusingly parody and [[satire\|satirise]] the then British [[upper class]]es, and particularly the works of [[Walburga, Lady Paget]]; [[Daisy, Princess of Pless]] and [[Adeline, Countess of Cardigan and Lancastre]]. It could also have mentioned [[Sybil Grant\|Lady Sybil Grant]].In her two books Mary Dunn traces the life Lady Blanche Addle ~~nee~~née Coot daughter of the 13th Earl of Coot from her Victorian childhood until [[World War II]]. The books are written in the first person in the form of "[[memoir]]s". Lady Blanche details in gushing tones the daily and mundane details of her and her family's uneventful life in such a fashion that she believes they will be of great interest to future generations. written with a subtle humour of which Lady Addle is seemingly unaware. Lady Addle fancies herself a [[poet]]ess and [[author]] whose literary works are of high merit when in fact they are banal, and she gives hilarious suggestions on cookery and entertaining as serious fact.

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