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Priscilla Roosevelt

Priscilla Roosevelt is a noted expert on the social and cultural history of Imperial Russia. For her most recent book, Life on the Russian Country Estate, and her efforts to encourage histoic preservation in Russia she has been honored and recognized by many organizations, including the Russian Ministry of Culture.

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    INTRODUCTION: Memoirs of the First White House Social Secretary Isabella Hagner

    Isabella Hagner James, known to all as Belle, was the only daughter of Dr. Charles Evelyn Hagner and Isabella Wynn Davis. Her parents were “cave-dwellers,” as old Washingtonians styled themselves, and Belle’s reminiscences of her early life vividly resurrect the mores of late nineteenth-century Washington.1 They also recount vicissitudes of fortune that rival the plots of Edith Wharton or Henry