The Resource Refinements of love : a novel about Clover and Henry Adams, by Sarah Booth Conroy
Refinements of love : a novel about Clover and Henry Adams, by Sarah Booth Conroy
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The item Refinements of love : a novel about Clover and Henry Adams, by Sarah Booth Conroy represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
- Summary
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- Although rooted in history, Refinements of Love is a novel of mystery and elegance and powerful fascination. Neither history nor Henry Adams ever revealed the truth about the strange death in 1885 of Adams's wife, Clover, in their home on Lafayette Square, within walking distance of the White House. In his classic autobiography. The Education of Henry Adams, this grandson and great-grandson of presidents did not even mention his wife's name or discuss the years of their
- Marriage. Yet Clover Adams's death from poison was a notorious Washington scandal. The Adamses were at the center of society in the nation's capital; both politicians and literati coveted invitations to their famous salon. Clover's sudden death shocked her contemporaries and continues to fascinate people more than a hundred years later. In a sparkling and dramatic blend of fact and fiction, Sarah Booth Conroy recreates the strange life and mysterious death of Clover
- Adams and comes up with an astonishing theory regarding its cause. Secretary of State John Hay called Clover a "bright, intrepid spirit" with "a keen, fine intellect." And he praised her "lofty scorn of all that was mean" and her "social charm" that made the Adamses' home "such a one as Washington never knew before ..." Henry James, novelist and friend, declared her "a Voltaire in petticoats." Was Clover's "touch of genius, " as James called it, in an age when women's
- Independence was corseted by social custom, responsible for her death? In Conroy's enchanting novel of Washington during the Gilded Age, the grand houses, opulent balls, and great art collections form a glittering veneer that masks a dark and sinister reality
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 301 pages
- Note
- "A Cornelia & Michael Bessie book."
- Isbn
- 9780679420507
- Label
- Refinements of love : a novel about Clover and Henry Adams
- Title
- Refinements of love
- Title remainder
- a novel about Clover and Henry Adams
- Statement of responsibility
- by Sarah Booth Conroy
- Subject
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- Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 -- Fiction
- Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 -- Fiction
- Adams, Marian, 1843-1885
- Adams, Marian, 1843-1885 -- Fiction
- Adams, Marian, 1843-1885 -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Adams, Henry, 1838-1918
- Fiction
- Washington (D.C.)
- Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction
- Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Although rooted in history, Refinements of Love is a novel of mystery and elegance and powerful fascination. Neither history nor Henry Adams ever revealed the truth about the strange death in 1885 of Adams's wife, Clover, in their home on Lafayette Square, within walking distance of the White House. In his classic autobiography. The Education of Henry Adams, this grandson and great-grandson of presidents did not even mention his wife's name or discuss the years of their
- Marriage. Yet Clover Adams's death from poison was a notorious Washington scandal. The Adamses were at the center of society in the nation's capital; both politicians and literati coveted invitations to their famous salon. Clover's sudden death shocked her contemporaries and continues to fascinate people more than a hundred years later. In a sparkling and dramatic blend of fact and fiction, Sarah Booth Conroy recreates the strange life and mysterious death of Clover
- Adams and comes up with an astonishing theory regarding its cause. Secretary of State John Hay called Clover a "bright, intrepid spirit" with "a keen, fine intellect." And he praised her "lofty scorn of all that was mean" and her "social charm" that made the Adamses' home "such a one as Washington never knew before ..." Henry James, novelist and friend, declared her "a Voltaire in petticoats." Was Clover's "touch of genius, " as James called it, in an age when women's
- Independence was corseted by social custom, responsible for her death? In Conroy's enchanting novel of Washington during the Gilded Age, the grand houses, opulent balls, and great art collections form a glittering veneer that masks a dark and sinister reality
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Conroy, Sarah Booth
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Adams, Marian
- Adams, Henry
- Washington (D.C.)
- Adams, Henry
- Adams, Marian
- Washington (D.C.)
- Label
- Refinements of love : a novel about Clover and Henry Adams, by Sarah Booth Conroy
- Note
- "A Cornelia & Michael Bessie book."
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm26131014
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 301 pages
- Isbn
- 9780679420507
- Lccn
- 92050468
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- Refinements of love : a novel about Clover and Henry Adams, by Sarah Booth Conroy
- Note
- "A Cornelia & Michael Bessie book."
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm26131014
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 301 pages
- Isbn
- 9780679420507
- Lccn
- 92050468
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
Subject
- Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 -- Fiction
- Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 -- Fiction
- Adams, Marian, 1843-1885
- Adams, Marian, 1843-1885 -- Fiction
- Adams, Marian, 1843-1885 -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Adams, Henry, 1838-1918
- Fiction
- Washington (D.C.)
- Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction
- Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
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