Nancy Rubin Stuart
Autor(a) de Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen
About the Author
Nancy Rubin Stuart is an award-winning author specializing in women's and social history. She has appeared on national television and National Public Radio and has contributed to the New York Times, among other publications. Stuart is aboard member of the Women Writing Women's Lives Seminar at the mostrar mais City University of New York Graduate Center and is executive director of the Cape God Writers Center. mostrar menos
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Obras de Nancy Rubin Stuart
Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married (2013) 85 cópias
The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation (2008) 66 cópias
Associated Works
Ingenue to Icon: 70 Years of Fashion from the Collection of Marjorie Merriweather Post (2015) — Introdução, algumas edições — 22 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1944-11-25
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educação
- Tufts University (BA)
Brown University (MAT) - Ocupação
- journalist
- Organizações
- American Society of Journalists and Authors
Authors Guild
Authors League of America
PEN America Center
Women's Ink
Membros
Resenhas
American empress : the life and times of Marjorie… de Nancy Rubin Stuart
This is a biography of Marjorie Merriweather Post, chronicling her life from about 1891 when her family moved to Battle Creek, Michigan, so her father could be treated for anxiety. It is very detailed. It covers her entertaining, houses or manors, philanthropy, family, and business interests through her 4 husbands, 4 divorces, her final gentleman friend, death, and obituaries. Includes information from her three daughters along with many others.
This was an okay book. I'm not really into non-fiction but some parts were interesting. I liked learning more facts about Lucy Knox and Margaret Arnold. I would of liked it more if it was fiction sprinkled with some facts.
As America's first female playwright, nonfiction writer, and copyright holder, Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) deserves more fame than she currently has. This dry biography by Nancy Rubin Stuart is unlikely to bring it to her. Much of the book is not about Mercy herself, but about the early American history in general, Mercy's male relatives, and her close friends John and Abigail Adams. Mercy herself comes across as a privileged yet prim and often sickly woman who believes in revolutionary ideals, but who also longs for domestic tranquility and relief from loneliness. Her unhinged brother Jemmy and her scofflaw son Winslow are more interesting than she is.
If there is an upside to this book, it is that it made me want to read Mercy's poems, plays and letters (as well as her three-volume masterwork, History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution), for myself.… (mais)
If there is an upside to this book, it is that it made me want to read Mercy's poems, plays and letters (as well as her three-volume masterwork, History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution), for myself.… (mais)
Rubin does a good job presenting Post as a genuine, well loved philanthropist and grand dame of the rich and powerful.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 486
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Resenhas
- 11
- ISBNs
- 27
- Idiomas
- 1
