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Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Describes the sad life of Huguette Clark, heiress to a copper magnate's fortune, who withdrew from society to live in isolation in a huge 5th Avenue apartment before spending the last years of her life in a New York hospital.
3) Empty mansions: the mysterious life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune
Author
Description
"When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed a property listing for a grand estate that had been unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled into one of the most surprising American stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Empty Mansions is a rich tale of wealth and loss, complete with copper barons, Gilded Age opulence, and backdoor politics. At its heart is a reclusive 104-year-old heiress named Huguette Clark. Dedman...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
viii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"At the turn of the twentieth century, American women began to reject Victorian propriety in favor of passion and livelihood outside the home. This alarmed authorities, who feared certain "over-sexed" women could destroy civilization if allowed to reproduce and pass on their defects. Set against this backdrop, THE UNFIT HEIRESS chronicles the fight for inheritance, both genetic and monetary, between Ann Cooper Hewitt and her mother Maryon. In 1934,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxii, 393 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, geneal. tables ; 24 cm.
Description
The first American heiresses took Britain by storm in 1816, two generations before the great late Victorian beauties. Marianne, Louisa, Emily and Bess Caton were descended from the first settlers in Maryland, and brought up in Baltimore by their grandfather Charles Carroll, one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
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