Women of Privilege: 100 Years of Love & Loss in a Family of the Hudson River Valley

Name: Women of Privilege: 100 Years of Love & Loss in a Family of the Hudson River Valley
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ISBN: 9780897337243

ISBN-10: 0897337247

ISBN-13: 9780897337243

Edition: 2013

Authors: Susan Gillotti

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Carolyn Heilbrun, in Writing a Woman’s Life, said there are far too few books about the real lives of women. Women of Privilege helps to fill that gap. Susan Gillotti provides us an insight into her ancestors’ heretofore secret lives, culled from their private diaries, letters and journals. Up to now, these intimate narratives have been the private thoughts of four generations of women who inhabited Grasmere, one of the great houses of The Hudson River Valley, where they lived among the Delanos, the Vanderbilts and the Roosevelts. On the surface, their lives seemed ideal, but beneath that facade, there were mental illness, alcoholism, yearning for divorce and questions of sexual…

Book details

List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Academy Chicago Pub
Binding: Paperback
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English