The magnificent Mrs. Tennant [electronic resource] : the adventurous life of Gertrude Tennant, Victorian grande-dame / David Waller.
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TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 304 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780300159943
- 0300159943
- Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918
- Socialites -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Gentry -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Salons -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Salons -- France -- History -- 19th century
- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918 -- Diaries
- Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918 -- Correspondence
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
- 942.081092 23
- DA565.T46 W35 2009
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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?'