Not at all what one is used to [electronic resource] : the life and times of Isabella Gardner / Marian Janssen.

Born in 1915 to one of New England's elite wealthy families, the niece and namesake of the important art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner (b. 1840-d. 1924), Isabella Gardner was expected to follow a certain path in life, one that would take her from marriageable debutante to proper society lady. B...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Janssen, Marian, 1953-
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2010.
Subjects:	Gardner, Isabella. Women poets, American > Biography. Poets, American > 20th century > Biography.
Genre:	Biography.
Online Access:	ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2010 (Ebook Central @ Proquest) EBSCO eBooks: 2010 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2010 (EBSCO) eBook High School Collection (EBSCOhost): 2010 (EBSCO) eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2010 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	Life and times of Isabella Gardner Not at All What One Is Used To: The Life and Times of Isabella Gardner
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Of Belle
"The walled garden," 1915-1933
"Not at all what one is used to-- ," 1934-1942
"Shapiro Shangri La," 1943-1949
"Writing poetry," 1950-1954
"On the wing," 1955-1958
"Courting lovers," 1958-1961
"Book and bed and booze and blunders of the heart," 1962-1965
"The unaired flat," 1966-1973
"The dead center of all alone," 1974-1981.