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The magnificent Mrs. Tennant : the adventurous life of Gertrude Tennant, Victorian grande-dame / David Waller.
Van Pelt Library DA565.T46 W35 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waller, David, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918.
- Tennant, Gertrude.
- Socialites--Great Britain--Biography.
- Socialites.
- Gentry--Great Britain--Biography.
- Gentry.
- Salons--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Salons.
- Salons--France--History--19th century.
- History.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Manners and customs.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Intellectual life.
- Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918--Diaries.
- Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918--Correspondence.
- France.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Diaries.
- Biographies.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 304 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 How I Found Gertrude Tennant 1
- Chapter 2 Born into a Long Line of Heroes 9
- Chapter 3 Early Adventures 16
- Chapter 4 Arrival in Paris 23
- Chapter 5 Unsentimental Education 39
- Chapter 6 Gertrude Meets Her Future Husband 46
- Chapter 7 Gertrude Enters Society 53
- Chapter 8 The Marriage Market 63
- Chapter 9 Phantoms of Trouville 70
- Chapter 10 At Home with the Flauberts 81
- Chapter 11 An Improbable Romance 98
- Chapter 12 Portrait of a Marriage 109
- Chapter 13 Charles's Angel in the House? 120
- Chapter 14 Births and Deaths 126
- Chapter 15 Rita and Emma: Two Literary Heroines 142
- Chapter 16 Les Miserables 151
- Chapter 17 Moving Up in the World 166
- Chapter 18 Gertrude's Dark Night of the Soul 183
- Chapter 19 Re-entering the Marriage Market 187
- Chapter 20 Reunited with an Old Flame 196
- Chapter 21 An Eligible Match 208
- Chapter 22 The Delicious Dolly 214
- Chapter 23 A Salon in Whitehall 221
- Chapter 24 Bula Matari in the Drawing-Room 230
- Chapter 25 Dolly's Choices 238
- Chapter 26 Quel bel avenir? 249
- Chapter 27 'Whom Shall I Meet in Heaven?' 259.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [294]-298) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300139358
- 0300139357
- OCLC:
- 262432380
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