Item #185091 King Lehr and the Gilded Age: With Extracts From the Locked Diary of Harry Lehr. Elizabeth Drexel Lehr.
King Lehr and the Gilded Age: With Extracts From the Locked Diary of Harry Lehr
King Lehr and the Gilded Age: With Extracts From the Locked Diary of Harry Lehr

King Lehr and the Gilded Age: With Extracts From the Locked Diary of Harry Lehr

Philadelphia/ London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1935. Softcover. Gold illustrated wraps with black lettering; 332 pp; 32 unnumbered leaves of plates; bw illustrated frontispiece, 32 bw illustrations. VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pages are otherwise very clean and clear.). Item #185091
ISBN: 9781432516437

"Harry Symes Lehr was born in 1869 into a family that was neither wealthy nor socially prominent. His natural gift for entertaining and his penchant for hobnobbing with the very rich earned him entry to the powerful circle of the New York and Newport social elite, where Harry clowned his way to a position of prominence. One of his admirers and patrons, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, introduced him to a young widow, Elizabeth Wharton Drexel. Elizabeth was smitten with young Harry, his elegant dress, and outrageous behavior. They were soon married. But King Lehr had a secret he was not what he seemed. On their wedding night he cruelly dictated to his new bride the rules of their strange bedfellowship. For twenty-three years, Mrs. Lehr protected her secret and remained in a loveless and abusive marriage. After Harry's death, Elizabeth remarried, to the Baron Decies. Lady Decies wrote down her secret story in 1938, incorporating Harry's most intimate diaries, and told all in this scandalous tale of power, desire, and deception."- website description.

OCLC: 22530479

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