The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew

S. Harris

The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Palgrave USA
Country
United States
Published
5 November 2002
Pages
192
ISBN
9780312295295

The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew

S. Harris

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The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew explores the influence that well-placed, energetic women had on literary and political culture in the US and in England in the years 1870-1920. Fields, an American, was first married to James T. Fields, a prominent Boston publisher. After his death she became companion to Sarah Orne Jewett, one of the foremost New England writers. Gladstone was a daughter of William Gladstone, one of Great Britain’s most famous Prime Ministers. Both women became well known as hostesses, entertaining the leading figures of their day. Both also kept journals and wrote letters in which they recorded those figures’ conversations. Susan K. Harris reads these records to exhibit the impact such women had on the cultural life of their times. The book shows how Fields and Gladstone negotiated alliances, won over key figures to their parties’ designs, and fought to develop major cultural institutions ranging from the Organization of Boston Charities to London’s Royal College of Music.

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