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The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red
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The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red Hardcover - 2001

by Joyce Reardon (Editor); Afterword by Steven Rimbauer


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At the turn of the century, Ellen Rimbauer, the young bride of Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer, began keeping a remarkable diary. This diary became the secret place where Ellen could confess her anxieties about her new marriage, express her confusion over her emerging sexuality and contemplate the nightmare that her life was becoming. The diary not only follows the development of a girl into womanhood, it follows the construction of the Rimbauer mansion--called Rose Red--an enormous home that would be the site of so many horrific and inexplicable tragedies in the years ahead. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer is a rare document, one that gives us an unusual view of daily life among the aristocracy in the early 1900s, a window into one woman's hidden emotional torment, and a record of the mysterious events at Rose Red that scandalized the society at the time. Edited by Joyce Reardon, Ph.D., as part of her research, the diary was published as preparations were being made by Dr. Reardon to enter Rose Red and fully investigate its disturbing history. For more information about Reardon's work visit www.beaumontuniversity.net.

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At the turn of the twentieth century, Ellen Rimbauer became the young bride of Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer, and began keeping a remarkable diary. This diary became the secret place where Ellen could confess her fears of the new marriage, her confusion over her emerging sexuality, and the nightmare that her life would become. The diary not only follows the development of a girl into womanhood, it follows the construction of the Rimbauer mansioncalled Rose Redan enormous home that would be the site of so many horrific and inexplicable tragedies in the years ahead. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red is a rare document, one that gives us an unusual view of daily life among the aristocracy in the early 1900s, a window into one womans hidden emotional torment, and a record of the mysterious events at Rose Red that scandalized Seattle society at the timeevents that can only be fully understood now that the diary has come to light. Edited by Joyce Reardon, Ph.D. as part of her research, the diary is being published as preparations are being made by Dr. Reardon to enter Rose Red and fully investigate its disturbing history.

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I find it a somewhat daunting task to endeavor to place my thoughts here inside your trusted pages, I scarcely know if I am up to the task, but as my head is filled with lurid thoughts, and my heart with romance and possibility, I find I must confide in someone, and so it is to your pages I now turn.

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  • Title The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red
  • Author Joyce Reardon (Editor); Afterword by Steven Rimbauer
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 252
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hyperion Books, New York
  • Date January 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780786868018 / 0786868015
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.64 x 5.84 x 0.85 in (21.95 x 14.83 x 2.16 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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