Maverick in Mauve; The Diary of a Romantic Age by Sloane, Florence Adele (Biography of Florence Adele Sloane.)

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. [0-385-19000-X] 1983. (Hardcover) 227pp. Very good plus in near fine dust jacket. Frontispiece, genealogical tables, photographs, illustrations, notes, appendix. The bottom edge is speckled and a previous bookseller's sticker on the front panel. "The landscapes of Edith Wharton form the backdrop to this diary of a beautiful, passionate woman who lived at the pinnacle of New York society at the turn of the twentieth century. Florence Adele Sloane was barely twenty when she swirled through the ballrooms of New York and Newport, cruised in the Mediterranean, and took in the sights of London and Paris". Biography of Florence Adele Sloane. Book about High Society. Time Period 1900's. Commentary by Louis Auchincloss. Locale: New York. (History--United States, Diaries, History--United States, Upper Classes).