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Author | : Petra Durst-Benning |
Publisher | : Amazon Crossing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Families |
ISBN | : 9781477826584 |
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Tempestuous and beautiful Wanda Miles, daughter of Ruth and Stephen Miles (or so she thinks), aspires to more than the life of a debutante, but the trouble is she doesn't know precisely what she wants. Then her aunt Marie, the family's renowned glassblower, arrives from Lauscha, Germany, and Wanda decides that learning about her ancestry may hold the key to her future. When Marie accidentally reveals a long-held secret about Wanda's parents, Wanda goes to Lauscha to unravel the truth. While Marie finds herself increasingly swept up in New York City's bohemian social scene--catching the eye of a handsome young Italian in the process--Wanda explores a past she never knew in the village of her mother's youth--and begins to build a life that she never expected. A sweeping tale that takes readers from the small town of Lauscha to the skyscrapers of New York and the sun-kissed coast of Italy, The American Lady is a tribute to the enduring power of family and what we'll do in the name of love.
Author | : Caroline de Margerie |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2013-09-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0143124137 |
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The fascinating story of one of the grand dames of Georgetown society and a true Washington insider Henry Kissinger once remarked that more agreements were concluded in the living room of Susan Mary Alsop than in the White House. A descendent of Founding Father John Jay, Susan Mary was an American aristocrat whose first marriage gave her full access to post-war diplomatic social life in Paris. There, her circle of friends included Winston Churchill, Isaiah Berlin, Evelyn Waugh, and Christian Dior, among other luminaries, and she had a passionate love affair with British ambassador Duff Cooper. During the golden years of John F. Kennedy’s presidency—after she had married the powerful journalist Joe Alsop—her Washington home was a gathering place for everyone of importance, including Katharine Graham, Robert McNamara, and Henry Kissinger. Dubbed “the second lady of Camelot,” she hosted dinner parties that were the epitome of political power and social arrival, bringing together the movers and shakers not just of the United States, but of the world. Featuring an introduction by Susan Mary Alsop’s goddaughter Frances FitzGerald, American Lady is a fascinating chronicle of a woman who witnessed, as Nancy Mitford once said, “history on the boil.”
Author | : C. S. Lewis |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2014-10-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0802871828 |
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When Lewis was 51 years old and long established at Magdalen College, Oxford, he wrote the first of this collection of letters to an American widow. She was described as a "very charming, gracious, southern aristocratic lady who loved to talk and speak well". In them are his antipathy to journalism, advertising, snobbery, psychoanalysis, and the petty practices that sap freedoms. They identify events in his life after 1950 including his marriage to Joy Davidman and her death three years later.
Author | : Charles Butler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : Women |
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Author | : Charles Butler (of Philadelphia.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : |
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Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : Etiquette |
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Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1816 |
Genre | : Women |
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Download The American Lady's Preceptor: a Compilation of Observations, Essays and Poetical Effusions Designed to Direct the Female Mind in a Course of Pleasing and Instructive Reading Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jean Brown Wagoner |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1986-10-31 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0020421605 |
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A biography stressing the childhood of America's first First Lady.
Author | : Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2019-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300245106 |
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy “Stunning.”—Rebecca Onion, Slate “Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present.”—Parul Sehgal, New York Times “Bracingly revisionist. . . . [A] startling corrective.”—Nicholas Guyatt, New York Review of Books Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave‑owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave‑owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.
Author | : Anne MacVicar Grant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1846 |
Genre | : History |
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