A Biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner

by

LOUISE HALL THARP

Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice, by Anders Zorn. Short Gallery, Gardner Museum. Reproduced by special permission of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

With Illustrations

LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY
BOSTON --- TORONTO

1965

 

Contents

BOOK ONE: The New Yorker in Boston

1. Mrs. Jack Gardner
2. Gardner-Stewart
3. "Too Young to Remember"
4. Jackie
5. Paris and Pearls
6. Belle Gardner, Diarist
7. The Intellectual Mrs. Gardner
8. "Chandeliering"
9. "No Goodbye"

BOOK TWO: One Fifty-Two Beacon Street

10. Cambodia for a Broken Heart
11. Heart-Whole Return
12. Music and Diamonds
13. The Sargent Portrait
14. La Donna Isabella
15. Queen of Holy Back Bay
16. The Gardners: Art Collectors
17. Enter Berenson
18. Art and Lions
19. An End and a Beginning

 BOOK THREE: Mrs. Gardner's Palace

20. Fenway Court
21. Mr. Sears's Lament
22. Nine O'Clock Punctually
23. At the Palace
24. Public Praise and Blame
25. The Customs Affair
26. "Old Times and New"
27. Twentieth-Century Isabella
28. Suggestions for a Museum

Illustrations
Acknowledgements


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