Emily Herring Wilson
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The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think about Eleanor Roosevelt. Emily Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Roosevelt's life, from 1922 to 1936, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who helped her build a cottage on the Val-Kill Creek in Hyde Park on the Roosevelt family land. In the early years, the three women--the "three graces," as Franklin Delano Roosevelt called...
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English
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Emily Herring Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Eleanor Roosevelt's life, from 1922 to 1938, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who helped Roosevelt build a cottage on Val-Kill Creek in Hyde Park on the Roosevelt family land. There, the three women-the 'three graces,' as FDR called them-were nearly inseparable and forged a female-centered community for each other, for family,...