Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century

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PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

MARCIA BURNS (MRS. JOHN PETER VAN NESS)

THEODOSIA BURR (MRS. JOSEPH ALSTON)

ELIZABETH PATTERSON (MADAME JEROME BONAPARTE)

THE CATON SISTERS

MARGARET O'NEILL (MRS. JOHN H. EATON)

CORA LIVINGSTON (MRS. THOMAS PENNANT BARTON)

EMILY MARSHALL (MRS. WILLIAM FOSTER OTIS)

OCTAVIA WALTON (MADAME LE VERT)

FANNY TAYLOR (MRS. THOMAS HARDING ELLIS)

JESSIE BENTON (MRS. JOHN C. FREMONT)

SALLIE WARD (MRS. GEORGE F. DOWNS)

HARRIET LANE (MRS. HENRY ELLIOTT JOHNSTON)

ADELE CUTTS (MRS. ROBERT WILLIAMS)

EMILIE SCHAUMBURG (MRS. HUGHES-HALLETT)

KATE CHASE (MRS. WILLIAM SPRAGUE)

MATTIE OULD (MRS. OLIVER SCHOOLCRAFT)

JENNIE JEROME (LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL)

NELLIE HAZELTINE (MRS. FREDERICK W. PARAMORE)

MARY VICTORIA LEITER (BARONESS CURZON OF KEDLESTON)

NEW YORK AS A SOCIAL CENTRE

INDEX

Transcriber's Note

Title: Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century

Author: Virginia Tatnall Peacock

Language: English

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Famous American Belles
of the
Nineteenth Century

Emily Marshall

(Mrs. William Foster Otis)

From portrait by Chester Harding

Famous American
Belles of the
Nineteenth Century

By
Virginia Tatnall Peacock

ILLUSTRATED

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Philadelphia & London
J. B. Lippincott Company
1901

Copyright, 1900
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J. B. Lippincott Company

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To
My Dear Mother
from whom I derived my first
conception of all that is
most beautiful in
woman


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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