Prides crossing
Subtitle: the unbridled life and impatient times of Eleonora Randolph Sears
By: Peggy Miller Franck.
Publisher: Commonwealth Editions
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Beverly, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781933212999
Subjects: Sears, Eleonora Randolph, -- 1881-1968; Socialites -- United States -- Biography; Horsemen and horsewomen -- United States -- Biography; Women athletes -- United States -- Biography; Upper class -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography; Boston (Mass.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The battles of Burlingame; title: Back Bay beginnings; title: A Boston state of mind; title: Diplomacy & fashion, Paris, 1892-1893; title: Coming of age in a new century; title: Tennis queen of Newport; title: Of motor cars & militants; title: Wedding bells & Porcellian blues; title: Thoroughbreds, yachts & aeroplanes; title: A Titanic year; title: Warrants & war clouds; title: The Great War : from fox hunts to fox holes; title: Dry socks & ambulances; title: Roaring twenties : mixing cocktails & Freud; title: The Great Depression & the changing of the guard; title: Love & war on the North Shore; title: The 1950s : worlds still to conquer; title: A far kingdom; title: Endgame.