She Walks in Beauty (2010) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Clara Carter: debutante
• Elizabeth "Lizzie" Barnes: Clara's best friend and neighbor.
• Harold DeVries, Harry: brother of Franklin
• Franklin DeVries: heir to DeVries fortune and most wanted bachelor of the year
• Mrs. Lewis Stuart: Clara's aunt, a widow
• Dr. Willard Carter: Clara's father
• Mr. Douglas: columnist for the New York Journal
• Katherine von Bergholz: Sister to the De Vries brothers, married to the Baron von Bergholz
• Mrs. Barnes: Lizzie's mother
• Byron: poet (actual historical figure)
• Mrs. Hobbs: wife of Mr. Hobbs, who owns a mortuary business
• Mr. Porter: a man who is interested in Lizzie
• Mr. Hamilton: one of the young men who dances with Clara
• Mr. Ward Mcallister: Mrs. Jacob Astor's social secretary
• Miss Julia Miller: governess, figure for women's rights and human rights
• Jacob Riis: actual author of a book exposing Tammany Hall and politics in NY
• Ira Hooper: dis-illusioned suitor
• Baron von Bergholz: Katherine's husband

Quotes edit see section history

• “...as precise as her posture: a series of ninety-degree angles.... She was perpendicular in the extreme.”

  Clara

• “It (the dog) looked like a cushion. How I wished that I could tuft it with buttons, embroider it with flowers, and give it away as a gift.”

  Clara

• “"Yes. And you may add prunes and prisms to it. Peas, prunes, and prisms."”

  Aunt

• “I want to live in the dream.”

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• 'Love? Love will only disappoint you. Love will only see you abandoned and humiliated, waiting up nights for a man who will return with the sun's rising, drunk, with the scent of some other woman on him. Love will destroy your dreams and corrode your heart.'

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• 'He made you, didn't He? Different than anyone else who has come before or anyone else who will come after?' I supposed He had. But I wished He'd had the foresight to make me bigger in the chest and smaller at the waist. Then I wouldn't be trying so hard to correct His mistakes.

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• True love gets girls to the altar, and after it is reality that takes them by the hand and leads them away.

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• 'And what if you never find it?' Her voice had followed me out into the front hall. At least I will have looked.

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• 'And anyone who expects you to attend them under such circumstances between the hours of four and six o'clock must be told to die some other day.'

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• 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me'?

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• New York City

First Sentence edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Siri L. Mitchell (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Christy Award (2011: Historical Romance, Finalist)

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• Dewey: 813.6

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Relationships › Mate Seeking
• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Fiction
• Books › Literature & Fiction