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A significant addition to the Churchill canon, My Darling Winston traces Churchill's emotional, intellectual, and political development over a forty-year period as confided to his mother.My Darling Winston is an edited collection of the personal letters between Winston Churchill and his mother, Jenny Jerome, between 1881 -- when Churchill was just six -- and 1921, the year of Jenny's death. Many of these intimate letters -- between two gifted writers -- are published here for the first time, and the exchange of letters between mother and son has never before been published as a correspondence.A significant addition to the Churchill canon, My Darling Winston traces Churchill's emotional, intellectual, and political development as confided to his primary mentor, his mother.