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Great-Great-Grandfather Oliver Vanderbilt helped found the mighty Bank of Manhattan; Grandfather Joseph joined Abner Doubleday in introducing baseball; and Cousin Cornelius manipulated his vast holdings in stocks and railroads to become one of America's richest early millionaires. But Amy's favorite forebear is Great-Great-Grandmother Vreedenburg, who staved off bands of Tory marauders singlehanded during the Revolutionary War, having plunged the vast sums of gold she had into her copious bosom...
...effectively dominated thought until the beginning of the ninth century, when the horoscopy which had been exported to the East returned once more to Europe. At this time, Arabic texts were translated into Greek and Latin, and court astrologers were appointed. During the Renaissance both astronomy and its mystical cousin prospered...
...Crusades, his rich grandfather, father and uncles, all did their bit toward the greater grandeur of France. They were artists, too, as proved by their sketches of hunting scenes and country life, which are included in the exhibition. Says Count Robert de Toulouse-Lautrec, the painter's cousin and closest survivor: "Perhaps if Henri had not been deformed, he would have become a diplomat or an officer. But he certainly would have painted...
...Named after a 19th century New York financier, Eugene Jerome, whose cousin Jennie was the mother of Winston Churchill...
Both stories are shadowed by raw autobiographical overtones, which Editor Wilson, as a licensed Freudian critic, delights in. Swinburne, clearly, is the original of the repulsed lover in each book. The girl is his real-life cousin Mary Gordon, whose rejection of the poet was one of the turning points of Swinburne's stunted emotional life. More horrifying is the explanation (in Lesbia Brandon) of the poet's lifelong fondness for being whipped. With subtle, sensual elegance, Swinburne records the slow, tragic perversion of a boy whose admiration for his severe tutor and love for his sister...