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Marian Gouverneur
A sharp-eyed memoirist of old Washington and New York society, she turned a long life of family stories and firsthand memories into a vivid portrait of 19th-century America. Her writing opens a window onto the manners, politics, and personalities of a world that was already disappearing when she wrote it.
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As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century
by Marian Gouverneur
About the author
Born Marian Campbell in 1821, Marian Gouverneur was an American writer and social figure whose best-known work is As I Remember: Recollections of American Society During the Nineteenth Century, published in 1911. The book draws on her own memories of family life, public events, and the social world of Washington and New York.
Her memoir is valued less as a formal history than as a lively personal record. She wrote about the people she knew, the customs she observed, and the atmosphere of American society across much of the 1800s, giving readers a direct, human sense of the period.
Gouverneur died in 1914, only a few years after her book appeared. Today she is remembered for preserving a firsthand account of a bygone era and for turning private recollection into engaging historical reading.