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Word: merrywood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly after her divorce, Nina Vidal married Hugh D. Auchincloss, a wealthy broker and the squire of Merrywood, a handsome Virginia estate. Despite the trauma that this union occasioned, it gave Vidal two tenuous family connections that were to affect his career: Auchincloss's mother was Emma Brewster Jennings, a descendant of Aaron Burr; and, after he and Vidal's mother were divorced, Auchincloss married Mrs. Janet Bouvier, the mother of the future Jacqueline Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GORE VIDAL: Laughing Cassandra | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

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