Chasing Beauty by Dykstra, Natalie -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Epigraph Contents Prologue: Notes on a Museum Part I: Becoming Belle

One: A New York Girl, 1840–55 Two: “A Far-Famed City,” 1856–58 Three: Mr. and Mrs. Jack, 1859–61 Four: “Remaining Dear Ones,” 1862–65

Part II: Around the World

Five: A Return, 1866–67 Six: “Mrs. Gardner’s Album,” 1868–73 Seven: “Zodiacal Light,” 1874–75 Eight: “Millionaire Bohémienne,” 1876–80 Nine: The Cosmopolitan, 1880–83

Part III: Motion and Light

Ten: The Way of the Traveler, 1883–84 Eleven: “A Whirlwind of Suggestion,” 1884 Twelve: “The Fiddling Place,” 1884–87 Thirteen: Love and Power, 1886–88 Fourteen: Seeing Wonder, 1888–89

Part IV: Fancy Things and Ordinary Objects

Fifteen: “Dazzling,” 1889 Sixteen: In the Middle of Things, 1890–91 Seventeen: The Concert, 1892 Eighteen: To Remake the World, 1893 Nineteen: “The Age of Mrs. Jack,” 1894–95 Twenty: A Poem, 1896 Twenty-One: “List of Things for the Museum,” 1897 Twenty-Two: “I Always Knew Where to Find Him,” 1898

Part V: One-Woman Museum

Part VI: A Dream of Youth

Twenty-Nine: Seeing and Hearing Modernism, 1910–13 Thirty: The Dancer, 1914 Thirty-One: Blood and Thunder, 1915–18 Thirty-Two: “Very Much Alive,” 1919–22 Thirty-Three: Spring, 1923–24

Epilogue: Lacrimae Rerum, or The Tears of Things Acknowledgments A Note on Sources Selected Bibliography Notes Index Photo Section About Mariner Books About the Author Also by Natalie Dykstra Copyright About the Publisher