King Lehr And The Gilded Age

Author : Elizabeth Drexel Lehr
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789121254

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“King Lehr” and the Gilded Age by Elizabeth Drexel Lehr Pdf

HARRY SYMES LEHR was born in 1869 into a family that was neither wealthy nor socially prominent. His natural gift for entertaining and his penchant for hobnobbing with the very rich earned him entry to the powerful circle of the New York and Newport social elite, where Harry clowned his way to a position of prominence. One of his admirers and patrons, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, introduced him to a young widow, Elizabeth Wharton Drexel. Elizabeth was smitten with young Harry, his elegant dress, and outrageous behavior. They were soon married. But King Lehr had a secret—he was not what he seemed. On their wedding night he cruelly dictated the rules of their strange relationship to his new bride. For twenty-three years, Mrs. Lehr protected his secret and remained in a loveless and abusive marriage. After Harry’s death Elizabeth remarried, to the Baron Decies. Lady Decies wrote down her secret story in 1938, incorporating Harry’s most intimate diaries, and told all in this scandalous tale of power, desire, and deception.

Author : Elizabeth Beresford
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781557099631

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King Lehr by Elizabeth Beresford Pdf

Harry Symes Lehr was born in 1869 into a family that was neither wealthy nor socially prominent. His natural gift for entertaining and his penchant for hobnobbing with the very rich earned him entry to the powerful circle of the New York and Newport social elite, where Harry clowned his way to a position of prominence. One of his admirers and patrons, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, introduced him to a young widow, Elizabeth Wharton Drexel. Elizabeth was smitten with young Harry, his elegant dress, and outrageous behavior. They were soon married. But King Lehr had a secret--he was not what he seemed. On their wedding night he cruelly dictated to his new bride the rules of their strange bedfellowship. For twenty-three years, Mrs. Lehr protected his secret and remained in a loveless and abusive marriage. After Harry's death, Elizabeth remarried, to the Baron Decies. Lady Decies wrote down her secret story in 1938, incorporating Harry's most intimate diaries, and told all in this scandalous tale of power, desire, and deception.

Author : Elizabeth Drexel Lehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436692407

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King Lehr and the Gilded Age: With Extracts from the Locked Diary of Harry Lehr by Elizabeth Drexel Lehr Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Elizabeth Drexel Lehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258883147

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King Lehr and the Gilded Age by Elizabeth Drexel Lehr Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.

Author : Baroness Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Beresford Decies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Aristocracy (Social class)
ISBN : OCLC:796119379

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"King Lehr" and the Gilded Age by Baroness Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Beresford Decies Pdf

Author : Elisabeth Drexel Lehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:263423086

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"King Lehr" and the Gilded Age by Elisabeth Drexel Lehr Pdf

Author : Elizabeth D. Lehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 078128242X

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King Lehr and the Gilded Age by Elizabeth D. Lehr Pdf

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Author : Baroness Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Beresford Decies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Leisure class
ISBN : 0405069189

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"King Lehr" and the Gilded Age by Baroness Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Beresford Decies Pdf

Author : Elisabeth Drexel Lehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1935-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1404782427

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King Lehr and the Gilded Age by Elisabeth Drexel Lehr Pdf

Author : Baroness Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Beresford Decies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010471907

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Turn of the World by Baroness Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Beresford Decies Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Drexel
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781429090803

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Turn of the World by Elizabeth Drexel Pdf

As with her prior book King Lehr and the Gilded Age (1935), Lady Decies' Turn of the World (1937) is a fascinating semi-autobiographical history of American high society during the Gay Nineties through the first World War. Upon the book's publication, The Pittsburgh Press wrote, ""The magnificent spectacle that went on behind the scenes in pre-war days of society's Gilded Age at Saratoga, Newport, New York and Paris is detailed by an insider, Elizabeth, Lady Decies, who was Miss Elizabeth Wharton Drexel interesting, amusing and sometimes revolting, as with evident nostalgia she tells of extravagant parties and fortunes spent for clothes and jewels.""

Author : Greg King
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620458839

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A Season of Splendor by Greg King Pdf

Journey through the splendor and the excesses of the Gilded Age "Every aspect of life in the Gilded Age took on deeper, transcendent meaning intended to prove the greatness of America: residences beautified their surroundings; works of art uplifted and were shared with the public; clothing exhibited evidence of breeding; jewelry testified to cultured taste and wealth; dinners demonstrated sophisticated palates; and balls rivaled those of European courts in their refinement. The message was unmistakable: the United States had arrived culturally, and Caroline Astor and her circle were intent on leading the nation to unimagined heights of glory."—From A Season of Splendor Take a dazzling journey through the Gilded Age, the period from roughly the 1870s to 1914, when bluebloods from older, established families met the nouveau riche headlong—railway barons, steel magnates, and Wall Street speculators—and forged an uneasy and glittering new society in New York City. The best of the best were Caroline Astor's 400 families, and she shaped and ruled this high society with steel. A Season of Splendor is a panoramic sweep across this sumptuous landscape, presenting the families, the wealth, the balls, the clothing, and the mansions in vivid detail—as well as the shocking end of the era with the sinking of the Titanic.

Author : Ward McAllister
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89056739600

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Society as I Have Found it by Ward McAllister Pdf

"Samuel Ward McAllister (December 1827?January 31, 1895) was the self-appointed arbiter of New York society from the 1860s to the early 1890s."--Wikipedia.

Author : Newport Art Museum (R.I.)
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 1584650184

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Newportraits by Newport Art Museum (R.I.) Pdf

"In 1992, the Newport Art Museum assembled an exhibition of 223 portraits of Newporters painted over a period of three centuries. It presented not just a gallery of the Newport elite and some of its haute bourgeoisie, but also a showcase of the most famous portraitists and portrait styles throughout United States history. Artists represented in this collection range from the great colonial portraitists Gilbert Stuart, Robert Feke, and John Singleton Copley to such modern figures as Diego Rivera, Larry Rivers, and Andy Warhol."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Baroness Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Beresford Decies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : UCAL:B4315308

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"King Lehr" and the Gilded Age by Baroness Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Beresford Decies Pdf