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Remarkable relations : the story of the Pearsall Smith women / by Barbara Strachey.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating CT274.S64 S87 1982
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strachey, Barbara, 1912-1999.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smith family.
- Smith, Hannah Whitall, 1832-1911.
- Smith, Hannah Whitall.
- Russell, Alys Whitall Pearsall, 1867-1951.
- Russell, Alys Whitall Pearsall.
- Berenson, Mary, 1864-1945.
- Berenson, Mary.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 351 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Universe Books, 1982.
- Summary:
- Robert Pearsall Smith married Hannah Whitall in 1851 in Philadelphia. Hannah took her family to England in 1888 when her daughter Mary married an English barrister. Mary later left her first husband for Bernard Berenson. Hannah's daughter Alys married Bertrand Russell. The author, using hitherto unpublished papers, draws a vivid picture of this extraordinary family.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: London : Gollancz, 1980.
- Bibliography: pages [337]-340.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0876633963
- 9780876633960
- OCLC:
- 8475535
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