Title The magnificent Mrs. Tennant : the adventurous life of Gertrude Tennant, Victorian grande-dame / David Waller.

Publication Info.	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
	©2009

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Note	Print version record.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	How I found Gertrude Tennant -- Born into a long line of heroes -- Early adventures -- Arrival in Paris -- Unsentimental education -- Gertrude meets her future husband -- Gertrude enters society -- The marriage market -- Phantoms of Trouville -- At home with the Flauberts -- An improbable romance -- Portrait of a marriage -- Charles's Angel in the house? -- Births and deaths -- Rita and Emma: two literary heroines -- Les Misérables -- Moving up in the world -- Gertrude's dark night of the soul -- Re-entering the marriage market -- Reunited with an old flame -- En eligible match -- The delicious dolly -- A salon in Whitehall -- Bula Matari in the drawing-room -- Dolly's choices -- Quel bel avenir? -- 'Whom shall I meet in heaven?'
Subject	Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918.
	Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918 -- Diaries.
	Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918 -- Correspondence.
	Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918. (OCoLC)fst01936458
	Socialites -- Great Britain -- Biography.
	Gentry -- Great Britain -- Biography.
	Salons -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Salons -- France -- History -- 19th century.
	Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
	Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
	HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
	Gentry. (OCoLC)fst00940300
	Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Salons. (OCoLC)fst01104198
	Socialites. (OCoLC)fst01123767
	France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
	Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	Diaries. (OCoLC)fst01423794
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Records and correspondence. (OCoLC)fst01423917
Added Author	Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918.
Other Form:	Print version: Waller, David, 1962- Magnificent Mrs. Tennant. New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2008051692 (OCoLC)262432380
ISBN	9780300159943 (electronic bk.)
	0300159943 (electronic bk.)

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