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Rich Women Train for Power and Luxe in Society Era
A feature tracing how daughters of wealth, from Harriman to Gould and Diaz, endure rigorous, multilingual, and discipline-heavy educations. It highlights Mary Harriman’s Barnard degree, Marjorie Gould’s structured study, Madame stoppage mending from Paris, and parallel aims of Mexican first families. It notes social duties, elocution, languages, physical culture, and the role of education in shaping elite women for public life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bupinese
Mary Harryrman
E. A. Harriman
Barnard
Columbia University
Woman's College
Keng
Miss Flarriman
Weare
Nee
E. H. Harrimans
Cornelia
Carol
Miss Harriman
Milionatre
Europe
Marjorie Gould
Henry James
Harriman
Mary Harriman
Harrimans
Barnard's
Marjorie
George Gould
Ilfa
Gould
Ans
Madame
Wen
Madar
Desha
Ome Jaye
Hein
New York
Paris
Ami
Radime
Taadime
Miss Gould
Daughters of the Rich
Mexico
United States
Presient Diaz
Senora Diagz
Dona Carmen Romero Rubio
Dea Diaz
Carmelita
Diaz
Senora Diaz
Senor Rubio
Lerdo
Senor Dilaz— Amada
Senor
Ignato de _Toral
Mariande
Senor F. Pinchon-Gallarda
Peither
Obrera
Sénora Diaz
Vanderbilt
BR. T. Wison
Goeler
Panieman
Sequal Aare
H. P. Belmont
Alexandra
England
Mortage
W K. Vanderblit
H. H. Harriman
Colette
St. Lords
Elizabeth Cady
Mrs. Stanton
Mary
Womion
Schiezen
Goettingen
Fraulein Wolfe
American Collegea
Elisabeth Cady
Jamestown
N. Y
Emma Willard
Troy
Willard
Miss Willard
Milsx
Wnlard
Heradid
Helen Gould
Collis P. Huntington
James J Hn
E. H. Harriman
Mary Mehigan
St Paul
James J Hill