# Margot Fonteyn

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- Authors: [Meredith Daneman](https://www.bookquiver.com/meredith-daneman)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2005-08-04

## Description

Margot Fonteyn - born plain Peggy Hookham - was dreamed into existence by the architects of British ballet: Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton and Constant Lambert. Carried to fame on a wave of wartime patriotism, Margot's sense of duty rather than ambition propelled her forward. Yet her gifts were such that her pre-eminence would come to eclipse the careers of subsequent generations. Ballet is a fairytale world; if Margot, like the pure and poetic heroine of Swan Lake, was a natural Odette, she would also have to contend with virtue's raw shadow-side in the guise of Constant Lambert, Roberto Arias and Rudolph Nureyev - the men who, like Von Rothbart, were to take possession of her heart.

## Editions

### Margot Fonteyn

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4016-530-2
- Pages: 704
- Published: 2005-08-04
- Language: en_GB