A deeply evocative portrait of Isabella St ewart Gardner\, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in Ame rican art and transformed the city of Boston itself. By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Italian palazzo-style home as a museum in 1903 to showcase her collection of old masters\, antiques\, and objects d'art\, she was already well-known for scandalizing Boston's polite society. But when Isabella first arrives in Boston in 1861\, she is twenty years old\, newly married to a wealthy trader\, and unsure of herself. Puzzled by the frosty reception she receives from stuffy bluebloods\, she strives to fit in. After two devastating tragedies and rejection from upper-society\, Isa bella discovers her spirit and casts off expectations. Freed by travel\, I sabella explores the world of art\, ideas\, and letters\, meeting such kin dred spirits as Henry James and Oscar Wilde. From London and Paris to Egyp t and Asia\, she develops a keen eye for paintings and objects and meets f eminists ready to transform nineteenth century thinking in the twentieth c entury. Isabella becomes an eccentric trailblazer\, painted by John Singer Sargent in a portrait of daring dé\;colletage\, and fond of such st unts as walking a pair of lions in the Boston Public Garden. \;
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