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   THE LIONESS OF BOSTON is a deeply evocative novel of the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston itself.

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   The Lioness of Boston (2023) is a historical novel by the American writer Emily Franklin. It focuses on the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, an influential American art collector and the founder of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

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   Apr 11, 2023 · A deeply evocative novel of the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston itself.

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   • Author: Emily Franklin

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   Sep 17, 2023 · Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1889. Portrait by Dennis Miller Bunker. Photo: Gardner Museum. Aside from family deaths, including that of Isabella’s only child, the book is light on plot, partly because the life of a Boston Brahman, especially a female one, was carefully designed to avoid as much unpleasant drama as possible.

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   Apr 10, 2023 · The thoroughly researched historical fiction account of Isabella Stewart Gardner deftly depicts a woman coming into her own within the confines of high-society Boston as perched on the cusp then seen all the way through the Gilded Age.

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   Sep 11, 2023 · Emily Franklin with The Lioness of Boston: A Novel. A portrait of late 19th-century Boston and one of its most daring and celebrated women, Isabella Stewart Gardner – the connoisseur and visionary collector who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city.

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   Who was Isabella Stewart Gardner?

   • Isabella Stewart Gardner, born in 1840, was a wealthy linen-merchant's daughter from Manhattan who lived in Paris for some time and later moved to Boston with her husband Jack. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is not your run-of-the-mill art museum, and this crime took on more significance because of her.

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   What is the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum robbery book about?

   • The book 'Stolen by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum' is the first authorized book on the topic from The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. It provides a look into the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum robbery itself and the pieces which appear to be lost to history.

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   What is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum?

   • The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a famous museum about which the book 'The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Guide' by Christine Nielsen and Nathaniel Silver serves as a leading guide. It takes you through the hallowed halls of the museum and creates connections to the works and the world into which they were birthed.

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   Is Isabella a feminist novel?

   • The book very much takes the feminist view of its subject: the intelligent and creative Isabella is constantly bumping up against crude forms of sexism, stuffy social convention, and rejection by her female peers in Boston (she was “too big for the room,” the fictional Isabella laments), only to triumph in the end.

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   What was Isabella's obsession with art?

   • During their travels abroad, Isabella would go on to cultivate her love of collecting art. This began with books, but would soon coalesce into an obsession with paintings, sketches, and sculpture. After Jack’s unexpected death in 1898, Isabella would finally realize her dream of housing her very own art museum.

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   What was Isabella's dream of building a museum?

   • Isabella Stewart Gardner's dream of housing her own art museum began with a collection of books. After her husband Jack's unexpected death in 1898, she would finally realize her dream of building a stately museum on Evans Way in Boston. She went on to commission a beloved local architect for the project.

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    Sep 22, 2020 · Get to know the fascinating life of art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner, her museum, and the infamous art heist associated with it.