Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald, the year of her official debut to Boston society, 1911.

 

“My debut was not lavish, at least by the standards of those times. It was a beautiful reception and tea at our home in Dorchester. Though it was the dead of winter, my parents had turned the house into a bower of roses for me. There were other flowers, too, as accents, and ferns and palms and garlands, but roses were the motif of the day.”

ROSE’S DESCRIPTION OF HER DEBUT