Author: Virginia Tatnall PeacockPublisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Virginia Tatnall PeacockPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465616594
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
During the century now drawing to its close there have appeared in America from time to time women of so pre-eminent a beauty, so dazzling a wit, so powerful a magnetism, that their names belong no less to the history of their country than those of the men whose genius has raised it to the rank it holds to-day among the nations of the earth. Among them have been women of the highest type of mental and moral development, women of great political and of great social genius, all of whom have left the impress of their remarkable personalities upon their time. When they have manifested these qualities in their girlhood they have risen frequently to an eminence such as it is scarcely possible for the women of any other country to attain at a correspondingly early age. From among the latter class the subjects of these sketches have been taken, those having been selected who seemed most adequately to represent their period and locality and whose fame was beyond question, it having been frequently of national and sometimes of international extent. Rising to wield the magic of their influence in every decade of the century and in every section of the country, some study of the time in which each lived has been necessary in order to give her her proper setting and to justly estimate the power she exercised. The inventions and discoveries America has given to the world in this great century have made vast changes in our material condition, which, in turn, have been productive of striking contrasts between the existence of the women who gave life and color to the early years of the century and that of those who reflect the myriad advantages of its closing days. It argues the possession of extraordinary attributes to have been a belle of wide repute in the days when there was no telegraph to flash the record of a woman's beauty, charm, or social progress from one end of the country to the other, when the press contained only the briefest accounts of purely local and wholly public events, when every letter that might or might not have contained her name or have been a herald of her loveliness cost its sender twenty-five cents a sheet in postage, when her few and simple toilets were painstakingly made by hand, when she went to balls on horseback, arriving sometimes with a wrinkled gown but seldom with a ruffled temper, when all travelling was done by means of a stage-coach, and a journey from one city to another was sometimes the event of a lifetime, and when the comparatively few women who crossed the seas did so in merchant vessels not infrequently owned by their own fathers, and spent many long weeks in the passage.
Famous American Belles of the 19th Century (Abridged, Annotated)
Author: Virginia Tatnall PeacockPublisher:
ISBN: 9781519059673
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 203
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They were beautiful, influential, and famous to all in their day. Some of the names we know, some are now obscure. But in 19th century America, they were the most talked-about and written-about women in the nation.Journalist Virginia Peacock rubbed shoulders with them and the people who knew them. In this lively and fascinating account of their lives, Peacock gives us the ravishing Jennie Jerome (mother to Winston Churchill) and the brilliant Kate Chase Sprague, who practically ruled Washington society during the Lincoln administration. Peacock also covers Madame Le Vert, Jesse Benton Fremont (wife of The Pathfinder), Baroness Curzon, and more.To be a belle was the pinnacle of society for these women but their influence on fashion and their powerful husbands made them forces to be reckoned with.
Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century...
Author: Virginia Tatnall PeacockPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781314879384
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century (Classic Reprint)
Author: Virginia Tatnall PeacockPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781331566779
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Excerpt from Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century From among the latter class the subjects of these sketches have been taken, those having been selected who seemed most adequately to represent their period and locality and whose fame was beyond question, it having been frequently of national and sometimes of international extent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
FAMOUS AMER BELLES OF THE 19TH
Author: Virginia Tatnall 1873-1918 PeacockPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781362143550
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century (Illustrated Edition)
Author: Virginia Tatnall PeacockPublisher:
ISBN: 9781406849820
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A collection of sketches of some of America's most influential beauties, illustrated throughout. First published in 1901.
Famous American belles of the nineteenth century, by Virginia Tatnall Peacock
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Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century - Primary Source Edition
Author: Virginia Tatnall PeacockPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781295451098
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Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Virginia Tatnall PeacockPublisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Famous American Belles of the XIXth Century, by Virginia Tatnall Peacock...
Author: Virginia Tatnall PeacockPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 287
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