The Art of Scandal: The Life and Times of Isabella Stewart Gardner
New York: HarperCollins, 1997. Illustrated in color and black and white. 351 pages. 8vo, purple boards, black spine. New York: HarperCollins, (1997). A near fine copy-- sunned along top edge-- in a fine dust wrapper. The Art of Scandal is the story of a striking woman of great force and character and of the Boston she lived in, from the Brahmins of Beacon Hill to the newly emerging ethnic communities and the little-known gay subculture. Isabella Gardner emerges as one..... More