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Readers who love American social history, family stories, political and diplomatic gossip, and vivid scenes of New York, Washington, Maryland and China in the nineteenth century, told by someone who was there.
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Imagine dining with generals, sailing to China with two small daughters and hiding your horses in a cellar while armies pass overhead. Marian Gouverneur lived all of that. Born Marian Campbell on Long Island, she wrote As I Remember in her later years, urged on by the physician and author S. Weir Mitchell. Her memoir records the people she met, the houses she visited and the stories she heard, from a childhood on the Rockaway Road to the years of the Spanish-American War. She is a lively, opinionated guide who was there.
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- 1A Long Island childhood and Scottish rootsFree
- 2Her father, the judge and scholar
- 3Schooldays and lifelong friendships
- 4New York society, theaters and churches
- 5General Scott's household and Washington in the forties
- 6Diplomats, senators and eccentrics in the capital
- 7Marriage into the Monroe family
- 8Voyage to China and life at Foo Chow
- 9The Civil War in Maryland and the return to Washington
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A Long Island childhood and Scottish roots
Marian opens on the southern shore of Long Island, on the old Rockaway Road. As a child she hears the surf of Rockaway Beach in stormy weather. Her home is a big old farmhouse lined with poplars, bought by her grandfather Captain John Hazard from the French minister Edmond Charles Genet.
Captain Hazard commanded a privateer in the Revolution and was captured by a British admiral. His brother Jonathan took the British side and rose to captain in the Royal Navy. She notes that brothers fighting each other foreshadowed the Civil War in her own lifetime. She also admits that her grandfather owned enslaved people.
Her father's side came from Scotland. Her great-grandfather fought at Culloden, and she grew up on the Jacobite songs her father sang. Her grandfather Malcolm Campbell opened a classical school near Trinity Church. These tales set the pattern for the book, which values a good story about a person as much as a date.
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What is As I Remember about?
It is Marian Gouverneur's memoir of her life and the people she knew, from a Long Island childhood and New York society to Washington, a consul's post in China and the Civil War in Maryland.
Who was Marian Gouverneur?
She was born Marian Campbell, the daughter of a New York judge, and married Samuel L. Gouverneur Jr., grandson of President James Monroe. She knew many generals, diplomats and society figures and wrote of them in later life.
Is As I Remember a true story?
Yes, it is a nonfiction memoir based on her own experiences, family papers, letters and stories told to her. It covers events from her grandparents' era to the turn of the twentieth century.
Why did she go to China?
Her husband was appointed United States consul at Foo Chow by President Buchanan before the Civil War. She joined him with two young daughters and describes the voyage, the household, pirates and the opium trade.
Is the book easy to read?
It is told in a warm, chatty voice, with short anecdotes, letters and verses. Each chapter centers on a place or group of friends, so you can enjoy it scene by scene.