Women of Privilege - 100 Years of Love & Loss in a Family of the Hudson River Valley

Informationen zum Autor Susan Gillotti is a Jungian psychotherapist. She grew up in Washington, D.C. and lived in London for many years. She holds degrees from Vassar College and Lesley University, and has published articles in the Journal of Sandplay Therapy. She is co-author of How to Go to Work When Your Husband Is Against It, Your Children Aren't Old Enough, and There's Nothing You Can Do Anyhow. She lives in Norwich, Vermont with her husband, A. F. Gillotti, the novelist. Klappentext Carolyn Heilbrun, the American academic and feminist author, stated that books about the real lives of women aren't written often enough. This book is an attempt to fill that gap. It describes three generations of women at Grasmere - a country estate in Rhinebeck, New York - who suffered because of the patriarchal attitudes of the men in their lives. Combining biography and memoir with social history, it traces the decline of a once privileged family whose neighbours were Vanderbilts, Delanos and Roosevelts. Zusammenfassung "Women of Privilege" traces the decline of a once-privileged Hudson River Valley family whose neighbors were Vanderbilts! Delanos! and Roosevelts. Based on diaries and journals! and written by a family descendant! it combines biography and memoir with social history.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Gillotti, Susan S. Gillotti, Susan Gillotti
• Publisher: Academy of Chicago Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2012
• EAN: 9780897336802
• ISBN: 978-0-89733-680-2
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories