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| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 103.2 | The History Cooperative
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June, 2007
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Chronicle of Catherine Eddy Beveridge
An American Girl Travels into the Twentieth Century

By Albert J. Beveridge III and Susan Radomsky
(Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, 2005. Pp. 256. Illustrations. $32.00.)

This beautifully designed book provides readers with a fleeting glimpse into the social lives of those economically privileged Americans whom readers may know better through the novels of Henry James, Edith Wharton, and other nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers. While these novelists employed fictional devices to examine the fraction of society that created its own social order and influenced the nation's business and politics, The Chronicle of Catherine Eddy Beveridge combines the actual journal entries of one such individual (begun while she was a young woman and revised during the later stages of her life) with the extensive research of her grandson, Albert Beveridge III, and co-author Susan Radomsky, to create a portrait rich in historical context. . . .
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