Word: bostonianism
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...JACK, by Louise Hall Tharp. Isabella Stewart Gardner, amasser of a magnificent Renaissance art collection, whose portrait was painted by Sargent and whose tea was sipped by Henry James, was in fact a most improper Bostonian-as Mrs. Tharp's sparkling biography proves...
...slapdash way, Woman is an eccentric comic parody of King Lear. Mrs. Lord is a solid-gold widow of 75, with nothing on her Bostonian brain but freshly dyed hair and a yen for yachts. Lear courts catastrophe when he parts with his realm; Mrs. Lord gets into trouble when her daughters fear that she will squander her fortune on herself. Lear is cast out on the storm-blasted heath and loses his mind; Mrs. Lord is kidnaped after a Boston Symphony concert and railroaded to a loony...
...beauty of her face. It was plain and rather round. But she had a famous figure, a nimble mind and charm. "To dominate others gave Mrs. Gardner such pleasure," a close associate later recalled, "that she must have regretted the passing of slavery." Actually, she was not a Bostonian but the daughter of a New Yorker who had made millions in importing and iron mining. At 17, she announced her ambition: "If I ever have any money of my own, I am going to build a palace and fill it with beautiful things." At 20, she married John L. Gardner...
...finest paintings. She spent a lifetime inventing and exploiting her own legend, and has remained largely a legend since her death in 1924. Now Louise Hall Tharp, whose last book was The Baroness and the General, has written the most extensive and carefully documented biography of this thoroughly improper Bostonian...
...postcard châteaux and quaint peasantry of Europe. But Ohio farmers on McCormick reapers did not fit into pretty landscapes as nicely as Normans driving oxcarts; few artists returned able to apply lessons learned abroad to the U.S. scene. One who did was Frederick Childe Hassam, a robust Bostonian who translated impressionism from French into pragmatic American...