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2. emilyfranklin.com › the-lioness-of-bostonThe Lioness of Boston - Emily Franklin

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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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   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 (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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   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 is Isabella Stewart Gardner?

   • Advance Praise for The Lioness of Boston “Franklin’s gorgeous, extraordinarily intimate and timely novel about Isabella Stewart Gardner showcases the life of a daring, brilliant woman who refused to be confined by the mores of her day, even as she searched for her truest self.

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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 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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   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.

   a book review by Claire Fullerton: The Lioness of Boston

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   Who does Isabella befriend?

   • She befriends such artists as Manet, Cezanne, Renoir, and Whistler, who gather around Isabella as she develops a keen interest in art, which comes to include multicultural antiques, objets d’art, and all that pertains to visual refinement.

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    Apr 11, 2023 · Emily Franklin is the bestselling author of more than twenty books including The Lioness of Boston, historical fiction about trailblazer Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who, in the 1800s, survived tragedy and created an legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston.

    • Author: Emily Franklin