To Be Young Was Very Heaven - by Marian Lawrence Peabody - Vintage First Edition
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| Management number | 3814744 | Release Date | 2025/08/12 | List Price | $21.00 | Model Number | 3814744 | ||
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To Be Young Was Very Heaven: a Boston Girlhood at the Century’s Turn
by Marian Lawrence Peabody
published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967
First Edition, Second Printing
hardcover in very good used condition
To Be Young Was Very Heaven is a richly evocative memoir composed largely of her diary entries between 1897 and her marriage in 1906. Set against the backdrop of Boston's elite social circles and frequent European sojourns, Peabody’s coming-of-age story opens with her as an enthusiastic “Boston Brahmin” immersed in grand events—lavish balls, cultural salons, debutante rituals, and the attentions of high society, including gifts from the Roosevelts and other notable figures. She recounts her evolving perspectives with both youthful exuberance and, in later reflections added in her 1967 volume, a mature self-awareness—recognizing how sheltered delicacy later gave way to independent values as her marriage fractured and she sought personal fulfillment.
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