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02480aam a22003978i 4500 001 619C19F4432E11EA81CC186F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200130010041 008 181214t20192011nyu 000 0aeng 010 $a 2018059764 020 $a 1948924005 020 $a 9781948924009 035 $a (OCoLC)1080556133 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d JIN $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a N5220.W64 $b B53 2019 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 084 $a BIO026000 $a BIO022000 $a BIO026000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Biddle, Flora Miller. 240 10 $a Embers 245 10 $a Embers of childhood : $b growing up a Whitney / $c by Flora Miller Biddle. 250 $a First Arcade edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Arcade Publishing, $c 2019. 300 $a 319 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "A Look into the Privileged World of the American Aristocracy of the Early Twentieth Century Flora Miller Biddle was born a blue-blood. The granddaughter of the Whitney museum founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, her childhood played out in a sort of Wharton landscape as she was shielded from the woes of the world. But money itself is not the source of happiness. Glimpses into the elegance of a Vanderbilt ball thrown by her great-grandparents and the yearly production of traveling from her childhood home on Long Island to their summer home in Aiken, South Carolina, are measured against memoires of strict governesses with stricter rules in a childhood separate from her parents, despite being in the same house, and the ever-present pressure to measure up in her studies and lessons. As Flora steps back in time to trace the origins of her family's fortune and where it stands today, she takes a discerning look at how wealth and excess shaped her life, for better and for worse. In this wonderfully evocative memoir, Flora Miller Biddle examines, critiques, and pays homage to the people and places of her childhood that shaped her life"-- $c Provided by publisher. 500 $a "Originally published by Plumley Press under the title Embers." 600 10 $a Biddle, Flora Miller. 600 30 $a Whitney family. 610 20 $a Whitney Museum of American Art. 650 8 $a Art patrons $x Biography. 650 8 $a Arts administrators $x Biography. 941 $a 1 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20200130011752.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=619C19F4432E11EA81CC186F97128E48 994 $a C0 $b JINInitiate Another SILO Locator Search