The Amazing Life and Loves of Lady Marjorie Fetter Goossens

Glenn and Barbara Holliman

Non-Fiction

... and startling revelations on the scandal that destroyed the magnificent career of Sir Eugene Goossens III, Australia’s most celebrated Classical Orchestra Conductor by Glenn N. and Barbara L. Holliman Lady Marjorie...

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... and startling revelations on the scandal that destroyed the magnificent career of Sir Eugene Goossens III, Australia’s most celebrated Classical Orchestra Conductor

by Glenn N. and Barbara L. Holliman

Lady Marjorie Fetter Goossens with her third husband had it all – wealth, fame and status as wife of Australia’s world famous composer and classical conductor, Eugene Goossens III. Amazingly, she threw it away to sail off with a penniless Polish aristocrat, Zygmunt Michalowski, later a director of Radio Free Europe.  Goossens, knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, self-destructed due to his own affair with a ‘witch’, a sex scandal that fascinates to this day.   

Marjorie’s story includes the sanctuary she later provided a German countess, the distressed mistress of her former lover Zygmunt. After decades of travel and love affairs, she forsook her ancestral home in rural Pennsylvania and found solace in France.  Her 20th century search for meaning and love spans the advent of the automobile to the Jet Age.

Page Count: 120
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Publish Date: March 17, 2025
Imprint: Sunbury Press
Genre: History/Biography

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / 20th century Women
HISTORY / Australia/ Cultural
HISTORY / Classical Music

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Judy Smith
Lady Fetter - Life of the Rich and Famous

I enjoyed reading this book. This Lady was very interesting, with lots of twists and turns in her life. I can see how the authors got caught up in the mystery of her life.
Rich and famous people are always interesting. She lived in the days before tabloids in the grocery store. But she would have made it on the front cover. She lived in the days before social media, but she would have had an active following.
Her life would make a great Netflix series.!!!
If you enjoy true life drama of the American and European upper class, then this book is a must read for you!! Highly recommend it!!!

Judy Smith

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Steph McCarthy
A Story of Scandal and Destruction

If you're drawn to hot gossip concerning the real-life yet unbelievable shenanigans of the rich and famous, this is the book for you. The scandalous behavior of characters Marjorie and Eugene Goossens manages to surprise, even shock, as they flout societal rules in their separate and tragic quests to find an enduring relationship. There is no fairytale here, no ‘happily ever after’ – just a fascinating enigma that keeps you wondering.

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Alice murphy
Riveting

Sad life for people with too much money and talent looking for love and affection.