Jeanne Mackin on Tour: A Lady of Good Family

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A Lady of Good Family

by Jeanne Mackin

Blurb:

Raised among wealth and privilege during America’s fabled Gilded Age, a niece of famous novelist Edith Wharton and a friend to literary great Henry James, Beatrix Farrand is expected to marry, and to marry well. But as a young woman traveling through Europe, she already knows that gardens are her true passion. How she becomes a woman for whom work and love, the earthly and the mysterious, are held in delicate balance is the story of her unique determination to create beauty while remaining true to herself.

 

Excerpt:

“There is a man involved,” he deduced.

“Yes. An Italian. Beatrix has been walking with him. They visited the Colosseum in the evening.”

“And she was kissed?”

“She was.”

“She’ll have to marry the fellow.  Is he presentable?”

“Good looking, but poor as a church mouse, I suspect, and in the process of selling off the family heirlooms, or trying to.”

“Uh-oh,” said my husband. He grew thoughtful and looked out the window.

“Remember that evening?” he asked as the carriage bounced us down the Champs-Elysees.  There was romance in his eye. I knew the hotel suite would be filled with roses, and in our bedroom, on my pillow, there would be a little red jeweler’s box.  The size of the pearls would suggest how much he had lost.  And soon he would have to pawn that bracelet or collar to pay off a debt. I had tried to explain to him that he lost considerable sums on these transactions – the pawnshops never paid the full value – but he had lifted his well-bred chin and refused to discuss the matter with me.

“Do I remember the evening in the Colosseum?” I said. “Of course I remember.” He had arrived unexpectedly, he had thought, though I had planted several clues in his path, should he choose to follow.  Hansel and Gretel could not have asked for a better bread-crumb trail leading to the Colosseum, to me, walking in the moonlight with the beautiful Giovanelli.

 

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Jeanne Mackin ‘s latest novel, A Lady of Good Family, explores the secret life of gilded age  Beatrix Jones Farrand, niece of Edith Wharton and the first woman professional landscape design in America. Her previous novel,  The Beautiful American, based on the life of model turned war correspondent and photographer, Lee Miller won the CNY 2015 prize for fiction. She has published in American Letters and Commentary and SNReview and other publications and is the author of the Cornell Book of Herbs and Edible Flowers.  She was the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society and her journalism has won awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.  She lives with her husband, Steve Poleskie,  in Ithaca.

A Lady of Good Family is available at Barnes and Nobles, Amazon, and other bookstores.

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