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100 1  Wilson, Emily Herring,|eauthor. 
245 14 The three Graces of Val-Kill :|bEleanor Roosevelt, Marion 
       Dickerman, and Nancy Cook in the place they made their own
       /|cEmily Herring Wilson. 
264  1 Chapel Hill :|bThe University of North Carolina Press,
       |c[2017] 
300    222 pages :|billustrations ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  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. 
520    "The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think 
       about Eleanor Roosevelt. Wilson examines what she calls 
       the most formative period in 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. In the early years, the three women
       --the three graces, - as Franklin Delano Roosevelt called 
       them--were nearly inseparable and forged a female-centered
       community for each other, for family, and for New York's 
       progressive women. Examining this network of close female 
       friends gives readers a more comprehensive picture of the 
       Roosevelts and Eleanor's burgeoning independence in the 
       years that marked Franklin's rise to power in politics. 
       Wilson takes care to show all the nuances and complexities
       of the women's relationship, which blended the political 
       with the personal. Val-Kill was not only home to Eleanor 
       Roosevelt but also a crucial part of how she became one of
       the most admired American political figures of the 
       twentieth century. In Wilson's telling, she emerges out of
       the shadows of monumental histories and documentaries as a
       woman in search of herself." -- provided by publisher. 
600 10 Roosevelt, Eleanor,|d1884-1962. 
600 10 Dickerman, Marion,|d1890-1983. 
600 10 Cook, Nancy,|d1884-1962. 
610 20 Val-Kill Industries. 
650  0 Female friendship|zNew York (State)|zHyde Park (Dutchess 
       County) 
650  0 Feminism|zNew York (State) 
651  0 Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site (N.Y.) 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
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