The Mount Vernon Street Warrens: A Boston Story, 1860-1910 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Martin Burgess Green

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0259792101 ISBN 13: 9780259792109

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Mount Vernon Street Warrens: A Boston Story, 1860-1910

She speaks slowly, inviting an equally slow and measured te spouse. Her four sons listen, their eyes alert, but they make no response, all resentful, but in different ways.

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From Publishers Weekly:

The fortune of the Warren family, derived from a Maine papermill, enabled five siblings to grow up in the elite society of Boston's Beacon Hill in the early 1900s. In telling the stories of those children who became notable for eccentricity and philanthropy, Green ( Children of the Sun ) focuses on Ned Warren, a homosexual and mover in the international movement of aestheticism, who was determined to lead a "grand but blighted life." The impact of the Warrens resonated in Boston society and abroad, in Oxford and Greece, where their reputation as philanthropists and art collectors linked them with leading figures of the period. This somewhat jumbled tale of a family's sundering through greed and suicide is enlivened with anecdotes involving George Santayana, Louis Brandeis, the Cabots and Lowells and others with whom the Warrens engaged in the culture and liberal politics that defined Boston in their time.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

The main axis of this family saga is the deadly opposition between two brothers: one a homosexual art collector, the other an aristocratic businessman. But the wealthy, talented Warren family had many sides. Green, who is grounded in cultural history, makes the most of their ties to Santayana, E.M. Forster, and Bernard Berenson and to social movements of the day. This rich lode of material, on top of the stories of seven very different Warrens, practically overwhelms the book. It teems with sidelights, odd connections, and afterthoughts and ultimately lacks any real shape. It does offer intriguing observations on Boston society and its antithesis, the Aesthetic Movement. New England libraries and large art history collections might profit from it.
- Donald Ray, Mercy Coll. Lib., Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0259792101
• ISBN 13: 9780259792109
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 297