The three Graces of Val-Kill : Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman, and Nancy Cook in the place they made their own /

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This title examines the most formative period in Eleanor Roosevelt's life, from 1922 to 1936, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who helped her build a cottage on the Val-Kill Creek in Hyde Park on the Roosevelt family land. Wilson takes care to sho...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wilson, Emily Herring (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Roosevelt, Eleanor, > 1884-1962.
Dickerman, Marion, > 1890-1983.
Cook, Nancy, > 1884-1962.
Cook, Nancy, > 1884-1962
Female friendship > New York (State) > Hyde Park (Dutchess County)
Feminism > New York (State)
Amitié féminine > New York (État) > Hyde Park (Dutchess)
Féminisme > New York (État)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Female friendship.
Feminism.
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site (N.Y.)
New York (State)
New York (State) > Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site.
New York (State) > Hyde Park (Dutchess County)
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Hudson River Valley
  • New York City and the new woman
  • The decision to build the cottage
  • The family vacation
  • The love nest
  • The way they lived
  • Val-Kill as refuge
  • A gift for friendship
  • It's up to the women
  • Val-Kill industries
  • The Todhunter school
  • The white house
  • Arthurdale
  • Change comes to Val-Kill
  • Drifting apart and a tragic talk
  • An exchange of letters
  • Missing evidence
  • After the storm.

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