Mrs. Jack: A Biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner (1984) Louise Hall Tharp Paperback Good

Peter Weed Books, 1984. Trade paperback of Mrs. Jack: A Biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner. Contains black and white plates. "When Isabella Stewart of New York became Mrs. Jack Gardner of Boston, she began a career that kept 19th century Boston agog. Her principal assets were money and an overwhelming attractiveness that she used to engage the attentions of the leading men of her day: Henry Adams, Henry James, Whistler, and John Singer Sargent... She assembled one of the great collections of art treasures in America and left them to the public in a Venetian palace that now bears her name." Good condition. Solid book with shelf wear.