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Marian Gouverneur
A sharp-eyed memoirist of old New York society, this author wrote with the insider's detail of someone who had watched the nineteenth century unfold up close. Her best-known work offers a lively window into American social life, manners, and memory.
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As I Remember
by Marian Gouverneur
About the author
Born in 1856 and died in 1946, Marian Gouverneur is best known for As I Remember: Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century. The book looks back on American social life in the 1800s and is remembered for its firsthand, conversational picture of the people and customs of the period.
Her writing stands out for its personal tone. Rather than presenting history as a list of events, she describes the world she knew through memory and observation, which gives her work the feeling of an intimate tour through another era.
Today, she is chiefly read for the glimpse she gives into nineteenth-century American society. For listeners who enjoy memoir, social history, and vivid period detail, her work offers an engaging way to step into the past.