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Author : Elizabeth Drexel Lehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 149410220X
This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.
Author : Elisabeth Drexel Lehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:263423086
Author : Elizabeth Drexel Lehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436692407
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 : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789121254
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 : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 2620 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063357417
Author : Elizabeth Beresford
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781557099631
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 L. Block
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262045841
How wealthy American women--as consumers and as influencers--helped shape French couture of the late nineteenth century; lavishly illustrated. French fashion of the late nineteenth century is known for its allure, its ineffable chic--think of John Singer Sargent's Madame X and her scandalously slipping strap. For Parisian couturiers and their American customers, it was also serious business. In Dressing Up, Elizabeth Block examines the couturiers' influential clientele--wealthy American women who bolstered the French fashion industry with a steady stream of orders from the United States. Countering the usual narrative of the designer as solo creative genius, Block shows that these women--as high-volume customers and as pre-Internet influencers--were active participants in the era's transnational fashion system. Block describes the arrival of nouveau riche Americans on the French fashion scene, joining European royalty, French socialites, and famous actresses on the client rosters of the best fashion houses--Charles Frederick Worth, Doucet, and Félix, among others. She considers the mutual dependence of couture and coiffure; the participation of couturiers in international expositions (with mixed financial results); the distinctive shopping practices of American women, which ranged from extensive transatlantic travel to quick trips downtown to the department store; the performance of conspicuous consumption at balls and soirées; the impact of American tariffs on the French fashion industry; and the emergence of smuggling, theft, and illicit copying of French fashions in the American market as the middle class emulated the preferences of the rich. Lavishly illustrated, with vibrant images of dresses, portraits, and fashion plates, Dressing Up reveals the power of American women in French couture. Winner of the Aileen Ribeiro Grant of the Association of Dress Historians; an Association for Art History grant; and a Pasold Research Fund grant.
Author : Kristen Richardson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393608748
A Smithsonian Best History Book of 2019 “Sparkling.” —Genevieve Valentine, NPR Kristen Richardson traces the social seasons of debutantes on both sides of the Atlantic, sharing their stories in their own words, through diaries, letters, and interviews conducted at contemporary balls. Richardson takes the reader from Georgian England to colonial Philadelphia, from the Antebellum South and Wharton’s New York to the reimagined rituals of African American communities. Originally conceived as a way to wed daughters to suitable men, debutante rituals have adapted and evolved as marriage and women’s lives have changed. An inquiry into the ritual’s enduring cultural significance, The Season also reveals the complex emotional world of the girls at its center, whose every move was scrutinized and judged, and on whose backs family fortunes rested.
Author : Lewis A. Erenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1984-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226215150
The evolution of New York nightlife from the Gay Nineties through the Jazz Age was, as Lewis A. Erenberg shows, both symbol and catalyst of America's transition out of the Victorian period. Cabaret culture led the way to new styles of behavior and consumption, dissolving conventional barriers between classes, races, the sexes—even between life and art. A fabulous era of chorus girls, jazz players, lobster palaces, and hip flasks—the age of Sophie Tucker, Irene and Vernon Castle, and Gilda Gray—tangos through the pages of this ground-breaking, as well as entertaining, cultural history.
Author : Baroness Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Beresford Decies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : UCSD:31822025039454
Author : Library of Congress,American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries. National Union Catalog Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN : UOM:39015081704390
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UCSC:32106019610499
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1206 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : American literature
ISBN : OSU:32435020111548
Author : University of California, Berkeley. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117173026
Author : Peabody Institute (Danvers, Mass.). Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
ISBN : UIUC:30112043030276
