Word: georgiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real estate, Ella Wendel lived all her life a recluse in the ugly old red-brick house (last appraised at $6,000) on the corner (last appraised at $3,684,000). Friends said her seclusion was voluntary, her life happy. She and her sisters Augusta, Josephine, Mary, Georgiana were dominated, kept from marrying by Brother John Gottlieb Wendel III. Rebecca, a sixth sister, eluded his tyranny, married Professor Luther A. Swope. But when Professor Swope died she returned to hermitage with her sisters. Last year she died (TIME, Aug. 4) and her will left most of the fortune, after Sister...
...Wendel sisters waxed and waned under the tyrannous rule of a brother whose whole life was bounded by the limits of his New York real estate, gathered under the ancestral maxim "buy but never sell". Once sister Georgiana gave vent to all the suppressed inhibitions so common, as the psychologists have pointed out, to middle aged victorians, and fied to the chaste red plush of the old Park Avenue Hotel. Her insubordination was dearly bought, however, for she was proved mentally unbalanced and passed the remainder of her days in a gloomy asylum for the insane. Ella conformed...
...titles to the Wendel properties in his own name, forbidding them to marry lest the family property be split up. He looked on with approval as they made their own clothes and wore the round sailor hats popular in the 1870's. Twice only did he meet rebellion. When Georgiana ran away at the age of 50 and registered at the Park Avenue Hotel, Brother John at once had her committed to the psychopathic ward at Bellevue and later pronounced insane by a sheriff's jury. After much maneuvering, legal and medical, Georgiana went back to live in the house...