TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waller,David
AU  - Tennant,Gertrude
TI  - The magnificent Mrs. Tennant: the adventurous life of Gertrude Tennant, Victorian grande-dame 
SN  - 9780300159943
AV  - DA565.T46 W35 2009
U1  - 942.081092 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Tennant, Gertrude,
KW  - Socialites
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Gentry
KW  - Salons
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - France
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; How I found Gertrude Tennant -- Born into a long line of heroes -- Early adventures -- Arrival in Paris -- Unsentimental education -- Gertrude meets her future husband -- Gertrude enters society -- The marriage market -- Phantoms of Trouville -- At home with the Flauberts -- An improbable romance -- Portrait of a marriage -- Charles's Angel in the house? -- Births and deaths -- Rita and Emma: two literary heroines -- Les Misérables -- Moving up in the world -- Gertrude's dark night of the soul -- Re-entering the marriage market -- Reunited with an old flame -- En eligible match -- The delicious dolly -- A salon in Whitehall -- Bula Matari in the drawing-room -- Dolly's choices -- Quel bel avenir? -- 'Whom shall I meet in heaven?'
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