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Jul 4, 1982 · Noted between 1907 and 1940 as the first and foremost interior decorator on both sides of the Atlantic, Elsie de Wolfe was born in New York in 1865 of a Scottish mother and Nova Scotian father,...
Jul 11, 2018 · Born in New York, NY just after the end of the Civil War, Elsie became “Lady Elsie” when she was presented to Queen Victoria and London society, (a quite unusual honor for an American girl at the time). This experience focused her vision of life on elegance, refinement, fashion, and good taste.
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James Wolfe (2 January 1727 – 13 September 1759) was a British Army officer known for his training reforms and, as a major general, remembered chiefly for his victory in 1759 over the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec. The son of a distinguished general, Edward Wolfe, he received his first commission at a young age and ...
Julia Wolfe is co-founder/co-artistic director of New York’s legendary music collective Bang on a Can, and she is Artistic Director of NYU Steinhardt Music Composition. Her music is published by Red Poppy Music and G. Ricordi & Co.,
In Paths of Glory, the first full-length biography of Wolfe to appear in almost half a century, Stephen Brumwell seeks to answer that question, drawing upon extensive research to offer a boldly argued reassessment of a soldier whose short but dramatic life unquestionably altered the course of world history.
English: Elsie de Wolfe (also known as Lady Mendl (December 20, 1865? – July 12, 1950) was a pioneering professional interior decorator in the United States, nominal author of the influential 1913 book "The House in Good Taste," and a prominent figure in New York, Paris, and London society.
James Wolfe was a British officer who fought in the French-Indian War. He is best known for his assault on Quebec and his dramatic death on the Plains of Abraham.
