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Natalie Dykstra
discusses
Clover Adams:
A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life
This event includes a book signing
DateFeb
29
Wednesday
February 29, 2012 8:00 PM ET |
LocationHarvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Tickets
This event is free; no tickets are required.
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Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome professor NATALIE DYKSTRA for a discussion of her biography, Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life.
Clover Adams is the story of a legendary American woman—brilliant Washington hostess, wife of historian Henry Adams—and her iconic marriage revealed anew through original, dramatic discoveries. Clover, an inquisitive, loving, fiercely intelligent Boston Brahmin, married at twenty-eight the older and soon-to-be-eminent Henry Adams. She thrived in her role as an intimate to political insiders in Gilded Age Washington, where she was valued for her wit and taste by such artistic luminaries as Henry James and H. H. Richardson. Clover so clearly possessed, as one friend wrote, "all she wanted, all this world could give."
And yet at the center of her story is a haunting mystery. Why did Clover, having embarked on an exhilarating self-taught course of photography in the spring of 1883, end her life less than three years later by drinking from a vial of potassium cyanide, a chemical she used in developing her own photographs? The answer is revealed through Natalie Dykstra's original and dramatic discoveries regarding the thirteen-year Adams marriage.
The denouement of Clover's death is equally compelling. Dykstra illuminates Clover's enduring stature as a woman betrayed. And, most movingly, she untangles the complex and poignant truth of her shining and impossible marriage.
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