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A salon at Larkmead : a charmed life in the Napa Valley / [compiled by] Drew Sparks and Sally Kellman.
LIBRA F868.N2 H64 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hitchcock, Martha.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hitchcock, Martha--Diaries.
- Hitchcock, Martha.
- Coit, Lillie Hitchcock, 1843-1929.
- Coit, Lillie Hitchcock.
- Women pioneers--California--Napa Valley--Diaries.
- Women pioneers.
- Pioneers--California--Napa Valley--Diaries.
- Pioneers.
- Frontier and pioneer life--California--Napa Valley.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Country life--California--Napa Valley.
- Country life.
- Elite (Social sciences)--California--Napa Valley.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Napa Valley (Calif.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Napa Valley (Calif.).
- Napa Valley (Calif.)--Biography.
- California--Napa Valley.
- Genre:
- Diaries.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 144 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- The time was the turn of the nineteenth century, and the place was a country bungalow called Larkmead, set in sylvan scene of orchards, gardens, and vineyards in California's pristine Napa Valley. Lillie Cort and her mother Martha Hitchcock, were hostesses of Larkmead's bohemian salon where distinguished guests whiled away the hour with singing, dancing and poetry read under the stars "A Salon at Larkmead." Martha's never-before-published diaries, chronicles this dazzling life on leisure in Napa Valley at the moment of the region's transition from wilderness to garden.
- Notes:
- Largely diaries written by Martha Hitchcock from 1872 to 1897.
- "A Kirsty Melville book"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [138]-144).
- ISBN:
- 1580081924
- OCLC:
- 42889747
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