All posts tagged "Brahmin"
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7.8K1Crime and ScandalHenry Cabot Lodge–Statesman, Historian and Witness to a Kidnapping
One day in 1860, Henry Cabot Lodge was sitting on the porch of the little school he attended in Nahant, Mass., when...
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13.3K4Arts and LeisureEthel Reed, The Beautiful Poster Lady Who Disappeared
The beautiful Ethel Reed blazed like a meteor across Boston’s artistic firmament in the 1890s, but after a broken engagement she all...
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21.9K6Arts and LeisureBeatrix Farrand Breaks the (Green) Glass Ceiling
Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1893 dismissed 21-year-old Beatrix Farrand as a dilettante gardener, but six years later she had...
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10.5K4Arts and LeisureLilla Cabot Perry Paints With Monet
When Isabella Stewart Gardner wanted to meet Claude Monet, her first thought was to wrangle an invitation from Lilla Cabot Perry. Lilla,...
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5.5K3MassachusettsLeverett Saltonstall Worries About Nora Seeing Men in Pyjamas
Nora Saltonstall got a chance to visit her brother on the Western Front during World War I. She, for nearly a year...
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8.4K2Crime and ScandalJust One Kind of Murder in the 1850 Parkman-Webster Case
There was only one kind of murder in Massachusetts when the sensational Parkman-Webster case caught the world’s attention in 1850: The kind...
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