Talk:Hetty Green

message: There is a conflict between paragraphs - about the 15-cent pies and the oatmeal heate on the radiator. This needs to be fixed. Note that a New Yorker article in 2001 on Hetty Green says that that the oatmeal story is bogus. 23:46, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Discrepancy

message: A 1951 issue of "The Stute" newspaper (pdf file) of the Stevens Institute of Technology documents the bequests of Hetty's daughter, saying the daughter's name was Hetty Green Wilks.  This contradicts the article.  Pending the verification of some kind editor I'm leaving the names in the current article alone. 
An obvious question the article should answer is: What happened to her money when she died?  Based on the above report it sounds like half went to the son and half to the daughter, but this is just a guess; for now I've only added a mention of what the daughter did with her estate.  Tempshill 20:14, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Her will left "the bulk of her estate to her son, Col. E. H. R. Green, and her daughter, Mrs. Matthew Astor Wlks. The remainder is distributed in smaller bequests to old friends of Mrs. Green."
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wbIgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TGkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4344,292852&dq=mrs-green%27s&hl=en
208.118.163.99 (talk) 18:33, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happened to the money; and daughter 

message: I read in an article that Hetty wasn't just recognized at the hospital when she took Ned for treatment on his leg.  There was more to the story.  To save money, Hetty took Ned to a free hospital for the poor.  One of the doctors then recognized Hetty and knew she was rich.  The doctor asked her for a donation, and she was so offended she whisked Ned away before he could get treated.  After two years without treatment for his leg, Ned finally had the leg amputated.  
Also, I read that she died of a stroke during an argument with a shop assistant over the price of millk -- not with a maid over the virtues of skimmed milk.  She didn't look like she ate skimmed anything.  (Life Lines Pre-Intermediate (2003), Oxford University Press, page 26) 89.176.27.233 (talk) 20:09, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternative stories 

message: "Her children, lacking their mother's financial genius, also tended to spend their money more freely"
What does this mean exactly? I fail to see how spending money freely relates to financial genius. Maybe it should say "lacking their mother's eccentricity". As it is, it looks like a non sequitur.
70.66.9.162 14:18, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Children spend freely, financial genius

message: The biography by Charles Slack cited in the article is the most recent of the few full-length biographies of Hetty Green. Carefully researched and persuasively argued, he corrects many oft-repeated stories about Hetty and her children, for example, showing that Ned died a rich man and somewhat ameliorating the story of Hetty's treatment of Ned's leg (although she hardly comes off well in Slack's version, either).
:The book's bibliography isn't that impressive, actually - I admit our reference options are relatively slim, however.  I've consolidated your citations and put them in proper form. DoctorJoeE (talk) 08:07, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charles Slack Biography 

message: Decemberists "Calamity Song": Hetty Green, queen of supply-side bonhomie bone-drab, if you know what I mean...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.181.105.239 (talk) 03:54, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular References 

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