Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth CenturyPeacock, Virginia Tatnall
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Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century
Peacock, Virginia Tatnall
Women -- United States -- Biography
Sprague, Kate Chase, 187
Sprague, Mrs. William. See Kate Chase
Stafford, Baron, 68
Stanton, Edwin M., 233
State Fencibles (Pennsylvania), 198
Stewart, Gilbert, 254
Sturgis, Russell, 93
Sullivan, John, 169
Susahena, Indian Princess, 195
Sweetenham, Sir Frank, 254
T
Talbot, Bishop, 273
Tallahassee, naming of, 106
Talleyrand, 28, 57
Tayloes, the, 14
Taylor, Fanny, 118
Tennyson, Alfred, 170
Tilden, Samuel J., 259, 260
Timberlake, John B., 73
Timberlake, Virginia, 78
Triplett, Mary, 230, 235
Tureau, General, 48, 51
Turpin, Miss Sarah, 233
U
Union Tavern (Georgetown), 70
V
Van Buren, Martin, 76, 77, 82, 127
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 108
Van Ness, Ann, 16
Van Ness, John Peter, 15
Van Ness, Mrs. John Peter. See Marcia Burns
Van Rensselaers, the, 20
Vaughan, British Minister, 76
Visitation Convent, 168
Volney, 28, 29
W
Wales, Prince of, 172, 173, 199, 252
Wales, Princess Louise of, 243
Wales, Princess of, 252
Walker, Miss Sally, 104
Walton, George, 103, 106
Walton, Octavia, 102
Ward, Artemus, 220
Ward, Robert J., 149
Ward, Sallie, 148
Warwick, Abram, 118
Washington City Orphan Asylum, 17
Washington, George, 11, 12, 22, 70
Washington, George Steptoe, 176
Washington, Martha, 121
Waterman, Priscilla, 92
Watson, Sally, 118
Wayne, Anthony, 160
Webster, Daniel, 13, 78, 82, 90
Welbeck Abbey, 279, 280
Wellesley, Lady, 264, 265
Wellesley, Marquis of, 66, 264, 283
Wellesley, Richard, 66
Wellington, Duke of, 65, 67
West, Mrs. George Cornwallis, 255.
See Jennie Jerome
Westphalia, King of, 54
"Wheatland," 165, 173, 174
White House, the, 162, 163
Wilcox, Mary Donalson, 87
William IV., 65, 67
Williams, General Robert, 187
Williams, Miss (Baroness Bodisco), 127
Williams, Miss Susan Mary, 59
Williams, Mrs. Robert. See Adèle Cutts
Willing, Ann. See Mrs. William Bingham
Willis, N. P., 98, 99
Wolcott, Mrs., 290
Wolf, Sir H. Drummond, 246
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 24
"Woodlands," 191
Wortley, Lady Emeline Stuart, 107, 111
Wurtemburg, King of, 54
Wurtemburg, Prince of, 57
Wurtemburg, Princess Catherine of, 54, 58
Y
Yorktown, Battle of, 103
Young, General, 231
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Transcriber's note:
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a
predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not
changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected.
Occasional unpaired quotation marks were retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
The illustration on the Title page is the Publisher's logo; the
illustrations at the top of the Contents and List of Illustrations are
decorative.
Page 38: "she may not be stripped" was printed as "he", but was changed
here.
Page 76: "féted" was printed that way, with an acute accent.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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