Life at Winterthur: A du Pont Family Album |  | Author: Maggie Lidz
Publisher: Winterthur
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1588363
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 56
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 12.2 x 8.7 x 0.2
ISBN: 0912724560
Dewey Decimal Number: 975.11
EAN: 9780912724560
ASIN: 0912724560
Publication Date: September 1, 2001
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Product Description
Long before it became a museum, Winterthur was a family home. Babies were born there, children grew up there, young people married there, and old people died there. Through photographs, letters, sketches, and even recipes, this scrapbook chronicles the public and private aspects of life at the busy estate. Published in conjunction with the museum's 50th anniversary celebration, Life at Winterthur begins in 1874, the year the estate was given to Henry Algernon du Pont as a wedding gift, and ends with the 1947 nuptials of his youngest granddaughter, Ruth Ellen -- the last great private celebration before the home opened as a museum. Never-before-published photographs and personal reminiscences enliven this pictorial history of life at one of America's grand old country estates.
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Kudos for Maggie Lidz January 24, 2002
Sue Renner (LUHTERVILLE, MD USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A wonderful insight to the lives of the Du Ponts revealed in an easy to read formatpKudo to Maggie Lidz
Better than peeping through a keyhole October 16, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I just got my copy and am already seduced by the rich collection of photographs of my favorite Dupont family. Maggie Lidz obviously knows her Dupont family history and is amazing me with details that I had never read before anywhere else. I can't wait to read the rest. This book has definately made me want to go back to visit the Winterthur chateau with a whole new perspective. The whole family and place really comes to life with this book.
Extraordinary and insightful October 12, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Life at Winterthur is a compound of anecdote, symphony and nightmare. Its mechanics resemble those of a dream that has freed the author from the necessities of common logic and has enabled her to compress all periods of history, all phases of individual and economic development, into a circular design, of which every part is beginning, middle and end.
Full of surprises October 5, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Always interesting, piquant and unrelentingly rational as she puts the Duponts through brilliant hoops of love and self-discovery, Maggie Lidz proves herself an uncompromising but humane adept in the paradoxes of passion. Beneath the high comedy and the grotesquerie of her story, she is examining the profound questions with which human beings are, from time to time, brought face to face.
Fascinating! September 26, 2001
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Now that we know, through Maggie Lidz's copious family album, the complex use to which the Duponts put their experiences, possessions and obsessions, the value of being in close touch with their immediate world becomes not merely tangential, as it once seemed, but central to an understanding of them.
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