Prides Crossing - Brossura

Matthews, Marcia K

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1502957981 ISBN 13: 9781502957986

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Riassunto

Amateur art collector Mary Brandegee rivals Isabella Stuart Gardner and Henry Frick in Edwardian New England.As a young girl, Mary Pratt inherits a large fortune and so does her cousin and best friend Isabel Perkins. Stalked by the infamous gossip-monger Colonel Mann, their family summers in Prides Crossing. Both girls make promising marriages, but after building a fine estate in Boston, Mary's husband Charles Sprague descends into madness.She makes a good second marriage with Edward Brandegee. They travel in Europe and collect art pieces based on Mary's intuition. She knows little about their provenance, and keeps a bathtub full of left-over statue heads in her basement. Her pride is humbled in a chance encounter with Belle Gardner. To the envy of her rivals, the pieces that are meaningful to Mary turn out to be world treasures.

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L'autore:

Author of Hippieville, Xlibris, 2001; cited in Take Back the Night, William Morrow, 1980; and co-author of Fight Back, Cleis Press, 1981, Marcia K. Matthews graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in English journalism cum laude. She enjoys gardening, travel and video production. Her poems have appeared in Hawaii Review; Sojourner; and A Wise Woman's Garden; journalism in The Belmont Citizen-Herald; The TAB; Equal Times; and Newburyport Daily News. Her pamphlet Pornography-License to Kill (New England Free Press, 1978) was anthologized in Fight Back (Cleis Press, Minneapolis, 1983). She has written six historical novels and currently facilitates a creative writing group at the Woonsocket, RI Library. She honed her speaking skills at Toastmasters International.

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1502957981
• ISBN 13: 9781502957986
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 54