English

Mary Curzon

This book was copied from the amazing and wonderful PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset, a labor of love by two dedicated and talented historians. We encourage you to visit them, and subscribe to their list for updates on new books as they are uploaded. · xii, 227 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : 24 cm · In 1870, a year before the great fire which destroyed the city, a girl called Mary Leiter was born in the suburbs of Chicago, the daughter of a self-made man. Although she died at the age of only thirty-six, she became the most famous American woman of her time. As the wife of Lord Curzon, and Vicereine of India when British power was greatest, she occupied the most splendid position which any American, man or woman, has ever held in the British Empire, and fulfilled the role with incomparable grace, courage and distinction. Mary Leiter started life with many advantages: a wealthy and loving father, great beauty, and a charm and intelligence which soon won for her many friends, like President Grover Cleveland and Henry Adams, far beyond the reach of most women of her class. She was the star of Washington and New York society before she was twenty, and then went t

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