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sweep out the ashes

Eccentric she was.A black sheep never quite accepted by Boston’s first families.  Quirky. An only in America original. She had edge, she had flash; a dashing individualist Isabella Stewart Gardner “Mrs. Jack” startled Boston society by erecting a Venetian pleasure … Continue reading

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