| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew. By Susan K. Harris. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. xviii, 192 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-312-29529-4.)

Our consciousness of the late-nineteenth-century social and literary landscape of transatlantic elites has been dominated by public figures. Susan K. Harris, however, commends to our attention two women whose role in the private sphere helped to nurture the career of others and to facilitate the bonds that tie bourgeois communities together. In her study of Mary Gladstone Drew, daughter of British prime minister W. E. Gladstone, and Annie Adams Fields, wife of the Boston publisher and editor James T. Fields, Harris provides an intimate glimpse into that public world from the other side of "the social tapestry, on the side where the threads were knotted and the loose ends hung" (Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, 1985, p. 290). In their respective homes eminent literary figures dined, stayed over, and relaxed in their drawing rooms.

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