Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century

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Virginia Tatnall Peacock. Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century

Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century

Table of Contents

PREFACE

MARCIA BURNS (MRS. JOHN PETER VAN NESS)

THEODOSIA BURR (MRS. JOSEPH ALSTON)

ELIZABETH PATTERSON (MADAME JEROME BONAPARTE)

THE CATON SISTERS

MARGARET O'NEILL (MRS. JOHN H. EATON)

CORA LIVINGSTON (MRS. THOMAS PENNANT BARTON)

EMILY MARSHALL (MRS. WILLIAM FOSTER OTIS)

OCTAVIA WALTON (MADAME LE VERT)

FANNY TAYLOR (MRS. THOMAS HARDING ELLIS)

JESSIE BENTON (MRS. JOHN C. FRÉMONT)

SALLIE WARD (MRS. GEORGE F. DOWNS)

HARRIET LANE (MRS. HENRY ELLIOTT JOHNSTON)

ADÈLE CUTTS (MRS. ROBERT WILLIAMS)

EMILIE SCHAUMBURG (MRS. HUGHES-HALLETT)

KATE CHASE (MRS. WILLIAM SPRAGUE)

MATTIE OULD (MRS. OLIVER SCHOOLCRAFT)

JENNIE JEROME (LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL)

NELLIE HAZELTINE (MRS. FREDERICK W. PARAMORE)

MARY VICTORIA LEITER (BARONESS CURZON OF KEDLESTON)

NEW YORK AS A SOCIAL CENTRE

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Virginia Tatnall Peacock

Published by Good Press, 2021

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By Charles B. J. F. Saint Memin

His library, which bespoke the critical taste of the scholar, and which he had begun to collect as a boy, was a feature of the house, recalled in after years by men who had been his guests as vividly as the brilliant dinner-parties given beneath the same roof by the distinguished Adams and his wife. He had his London bookseller, through whom he made constant additions to his collection, for Burr was ever a lover of books, and he recorded in his journal in his days of exile and want with what pangs he had been obliged to part with some odd volumes he had with him upon discovering that he was again under the necessity of dining.

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