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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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   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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   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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   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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   The Lioness of Boston is a fictionalized biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner, the prolific art collector who eventually turned her Boston home into a museum. This fascinating look at her early life as a newlywed shunned by Boston’s blueblood society is realistic and emotionally moving.

   • Author: Emily Franklin

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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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   Who was Isabella Stewart Gardner?

   • Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) was an American socialite, art collector and philanthropist who founded an art museum. She was known as Isabella Stewart Gardner. She was descended from the ancient kings of Scotland.

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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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   How does Isabella explore the world of Art?

   • Freed by travel, Isabella explores the world of art, ideas, and letters, meeting and befriending such kindred spirits as Henry James and Oscar Wilde. From London and Paris to Egypt and Asia, she develops a keen eye for paintings and objects, and meets feminists ready to transform nineteenth century thinking in the twentieth century.

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   How old was Isabella when she arrived in Boston?

   • But when Isabella first arrived in Boston in 1861, she was twenty years old, newly married to a wealthy trader, and unsure of herself. Puzzled by the frosty reception she received from stuffy bluebloods, she strived to fit in. After two devastating tragedies and rejection from upper-society, Isabella discovered her spirit and cast off expectations.

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   How does Isabella prove she is constitutionally incapable of being fully deterred?

   • When Isabella’s standing as a young wife and mother promises to recommend her, fate has the last word, and when a heartbreaking and life-defining event occurs, the resilient Isabella proves she is constitutionally incapable of being fully deterred.

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   How did Isabella discover her spirit?

   • After two devastating tragedies and rejection from upper-society, Isabella discovered her spirit and cast off expectations. Freed by travel, Isabella explores the world of art, ideas, and letters, meeting such kindred spirits as Henry James and Oscar Wilde.

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   Apr 11, 2023 · By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Italian palazzo-style home as a museum in 1903 to showcase her collection of old masters, antiques, and objects d'art, she was already well-known for scandalizing Boston's polite society.

   • Author: Emily Franklin