Women of Privilege
100 Years of Love & Loss in a Family of the Hudson River Valley
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Academy Chicago Publishers
Published:15th Mar '13
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Women of Privilege traces the decline of a once-privileged Hudson River Valley family where the neighbours were Vanderbilts, Delanos, and Roosevelts. Susan Gillotti provides us an insight into her ancestors' heretofore secret lives, culled from private diaries, letters, and journals of the three generations of women who inhabited Grasmere - one of the great houses of the Hudson River Valley. On the surface, their lives seem ideal, but beneath that facade, there was mental illness, alcoholism, yearning for divorce, and questions of sexual identity.
“Susan Gillotti opens the door of this great house to explore the lives and turmoil within. Women of Privilege is a riveting read—one cannot stop until the final outcome of these powerful, but flawed, lives is revealed. Equally compelling is that the telling of these personal dramas is based on a wealth of conserved letters, diaries, and other documentation.” - Peter H. Brink, former senior vice president, Programs, National Trust for Historic Preservation
ISBN: 9780897337243
Dimensions: 215mm x 139mm x 20mm
Weight: 371g
285 pages