Mrs. Beauchamp Brown (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Mrs. Beauchamp Brown Beacon Hill in Boston, dining, not eating dinner, the latter being an animal necessity, the former an aesthetic enjoyment; and Mrs. Beauchamp Brown, the hostess, was one of those people who discover aesthetics by the same subtile law of attraction that led Columbus to America, or Galileo to the revolution he so obstinately fought. A very queer person was Mrs. Beauchamp Brown, and quite as much of a liberal education, if you studied her exhaustively, as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, to those who loved her. A leader, you might say the leader, of her world for forty years; as autocratic, as self-centred, as indomitable, as ever a Russian Catherine or an Elizabeth of them all. What is to be known of this world in its social aspect and history, she knew; what never was known before she invented and fulminated, and, which is more remarkable, made other people accept in spite of themselves; she endured none but ultramontanists near her throne, and if Pope Joan be, as they say, a myth, Mrs. Beauchamp Brown was the reality she prefigured. For the rest, she was a widow, childless, wealthy, and worldly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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