Bebo: A Portrait of My Mother
David Chandler, "Bebo: A Portrait of My Mother"
English | ISBN: 1875703462 | 2021 | 206 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1875703462 | 2021 | 206 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
For this absorbing portrait of his mother, David Chandler drew on hundreds of letters that she sent and received, on his own warm memories, and the many and copious medical records from her hospitalizations in 1937 and 1963, afflicted with what were then called nervous breakdowns.
Gabrielle Chanler, nicknamed Bebo as a small child, was born into the upper reaches of New York society, deftly described in the novels of Edith Wharton, a life-long friend of Bebo's mother. Educated at a Catholic boarding school in London and in art schools in New York and Paris, Bebo added a "d" to her name when she married Porter Chandler, a lawyer who later became a became a partner in a New York law firm. David was the third of the Chandlers' four children.
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