Portraits of the reigning beauties of American society from the Madison era onward — Dolley Madison, Peggy O’Neale Eaton whose reception split a cabinet, the Caton sisters who married into the British peerage, Adele Cutts, Kate Chase Sprague — and of the political power a drawing room could carry.
Social power in nineteenth-century America, and the women who wielded it. Download the free EPUB.