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Beyond the public speeches, history unfolds in drawing rooms, over dinners, and through the rules of a visit.
In As I Remember, Marian Gouverneur recalls nineteenth-century American society from within. She moves among families close to leading political figures, where favor, rank, and manners shape social life. Her memories bring you into drawing rooms and dinner conversations as the country grows from a young republic into an industrial power.
Her ties through marriage to the family of President James Monroe bring the White House and the early federal city into her story. Alongside politics, she describes visits, clothes, entertaining, and public behavior. The result is a personal view of the past, shaped by what a woman of her class sees, hears, and feels.
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- Society from the inside Meet a world of rank and favor through a woman who belongs to it.
- Links to the White House Follow Gouverneur’s Monroe family connections into memories of the presidency and the early federal city.
- The language of manners Discover how visits, dress, and public behavior reveal the rules that govern social life.
- Politics beyond public office Explore the social world surrounding political figures, beyond the usual accounts of men in office.
- A woman's remembered world See a changing country through personal recollections of dinners, conversations, fashions, and family ties.
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Readers who love American social history, family stories, diplomatic and political 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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- A Long Island childhood and Scottish roots
- Her father, the judge and scholar
- Schooldays and lifelong friendships
- New York society, theaters and churches
- General Scott's household and Washington in the forties
- Diplomats, senators and eccentrics in the capital
- Marriage into the Monroe family
- Voyage to China and life at Foo Chow
- The Civil War in Maryland and the return to Washington
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Come ricordo
by Marian Gouverneur · 1911
A New York judge's daughter befriends generals and presidents, then sails to Foo Chow with two small children.
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As I Remember is the memoir of Marian Gouverneur, born Marian Campbell on Long Island, who spent her life among the families that shaped New York and Washington. She wrote it in her later years, after a Philadelphia physician and author, S. Weir Mitchell, urged her to set down what she knew.
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A Long Island childhood and Scottish roots
Marian Gouverneur opens her book on the southern shore of Long Island, in Queens County, on the old Rockaway Road. As a child she heard the surf of Rockaway Beach in stormy weather. Her home was a big old farmhouse lined with poplars, bought by her mother's father, Captain John Hazard, from the French minister Edmond Charles Genet. Much of the furniture came from Genet too, and she still owned pieces of it when she wrote.
Captain Hazard commanded a privateer in the Revolution and was captured by a British admiral. Family tradition said he overheard his captors discussing whether to hang him, and he carried the scars of the irons to his grave. His brother Jonathan took the British side, changed his name and rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Navy. She notes that the brothers fighting each other foreshadowed the Civil War in her own lifetime.
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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.
The author
Marian Gouverneur
1821–1914 · American memoirist
Marian Gouverneur (1821–1914) was an American memoirist born in New York City. She lived in New York and Washington, D.C., during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her memoir, As I Remember, was published in 1911, near the end of her life. She died in 1914.
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