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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Downing, Ben, 1967-     Subjects     Ross, Janet, 1842-1927.     Ross, Janet, 1842-1927 -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Tuscany.     Ross, Janet, 1842-1927 -- Friends and associates.     British -- Italy -- Tuscany -- Biography.     Women -- Italy -- Tuscany -- Biography.     Exiles -- Tuscany -- Biography.     Tuscany (Italy) -- Biography.     Tuscany (Italy) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Downing, Ben, 1967-       by title:      Queen bee of Tuscany...       by call number:      945.5084092 D751q     Search the Web     Downing, Ben, 1967-     Ross, Janet, 1842-1927.     Ross, Janet, 1842-1927 -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Tuscany.     Ross, Janet, 1842-1927 -- Friends and associates.     British -- Italy -- Tuscany -- Biography.     Women -- Italy -- Tuscany -- Biography.     Exiles -- Tuscany -- Biography.     Tuscany (Italy) -- Biography.     Tuscany (Italy) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.       MARC Display

Queen bee of Tuscany : the redoubtable Janet Ross / Ben Downing. by Downing, Ben, 1967- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. Call #: 945.5084092 D751q Subjects Ross, Janet, 1842-1927.   Ross, Janet, 1842-1927 -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Tuscany.   Ross, Janet, 1842-1927 -- Friends and associates.   British -- Italy -- Tuscany -- Biography.   Women -- Italy -- Tuscany -- Biography.   Exiles -- Tuscany -- Biography.   Tuscany (Italy) -- Biography.   Tuscany (Italy) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780374239718 (alkaline paper) 0374239711 (alkaline paper) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-317) and index. Contents:  Poggio untoppled -- A dynasty of sorts -- Successions -- Sitti Ross -- Intermezzo : the Anglo -- Tuscans -- La padrona di Castagnolo -- Castle Ross -- Aunt Janet -- Legacies. Summary:  "Ben Downing’s Queen Bee of Tuscany brings an extraordinary Victorian back to life. Born into a distinguished intellectual family and raised among luminaries such as Dickens and Thackeray, Janet Ross married at eighteen and went to live in Egypt. There, for the next six years, she wrote for the London Times, hobnobbed with the developer of the Suez Canal, and humiliated pashas in horse races. In 1867 she moved to Florence, Italy where she spent the remaining sixty years of her life writing a series of books and hosting a colorful miscellany of friends and neighbors, from Mark Twain to Bernard Berenson, at Poggio Gherardo, her house in the hills above the city. Eventually she became the acknowledged doyenne of the Anglo-Florentine colony, as it was known. Yet she was also immersed in the rural life of Tuscany: An avid agriculturalist, she closely supervised the farms on her estate and the sharecroppers who worked them, often pitching in on grape and olive harvests. Spirited, erudite, and supremely well-connected, Ross was one of the most dynamic women of her day. Her life offers a fascinating window on fascinating times, from the Risorgimento to the rise of fascism. Encompassing all this rich history, Queen Bee of Tuscany is a panoramic portrait of an age, a family, and our evolving love affair with Tuscany."--From publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 945.5084092 D751q Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 945.5084092 D751q Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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