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...husband Bert Ayer's iron and steel dollars on her Chicago household expenses each year. She read highbrow magazines and struggled to get Bert to like her French dishes (the French novels were beyond him). Alas, he threw her magazines in the fire and, instead of eating, drank. Harriet, "bird of gorgeous plumage strayed into a hen yard," might have had a long, drawn-out struggle to civilize this unworthy man, but she left the fellow some time before he went broke. Instead of being that Victorian emblem, The Woman Alone Against the World. Harriet Hubbard Ayer became...
...THREE LIVES OF HARRIET HUBBARD AYER (284 pp.)-Margaret Hubbard Ayer & Isabella Taves - Lippincott...
Before these two books, the male reader's heart is likely to shrink within him like a salted snail. They tell the stories of two overpowering women, different largely in the type of power they used. Harriet Hubbard Ayer carried culture between her dazzling teeth like a cutlass; Catherine Glynne Gladstone wielded a feather duster of a featherbrain. Both weapons were equally effective...
...Burd Grubb, a West Pointer with an inherited business. He sent her violets daily from his hothouses but never (he had a strict moral code) asked her aboard his transatlantic yacht. The second was a smooth operator known as "P'ison Jim" Seymour. His diabolical advice to Harriet: "Let the men fool around with mines and railroads. See what you can take out of their wives...
Wilbur, who is Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley, won the National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize for his "Things of the World." He has also won the Blumenthal and Harriet Monroe Prizes for Poetry Magazine, and held a Guggenheim Fellowship...