Elisabeth Marbury, My Crystal Ball
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Marbury, Elisabeth. My Crystal Ball. Third Printing. 1924. Hardcover in green boards with embossed gilt titles (no jacket). Book is in very good condition—the number 35 is written on the flyleaf, pages show very light foxing, and covers show very light wear.
Elsie de Wolfe created the profession of the modern interior designer. Her great friend Elisabeth Marbury not only created Elsie de Wolfe, she invented a profession of her own, that of the theatrical literary agent. From a good New York family (the kind that used to be better), Marbury was as clever as she was connected, both of which she utilized to succeed in a man’s world. In this memoir, she recalls her years with Elsie de Wolfe and her dealings with Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Eugene O’Neil, and Somerset Maugham, as well as the literary and artistic circle she created outside of Mrs. Astor’s Four Hundred that would eventually blossom into café society.
“One principle in life to which I have been fairly faithful is to always cultivate people who are better and finer and cleverer than myself. It is more morally wholesome to bend one’s knees back and look up, than to drop one’s head forward and look down.”
--Elisabeth Marbury
Elsie de Wolfe created the profession of the modern interior designer. Her great friend Elisabeth Marbury not only created Elsie de Wolfe, she invented a profession of her own, that of the theatrical literary agent. From a good New York family (the kind that used to be better), Marbury was as clever as she was connected, both of which she utilized to succeed in a man’s world. In this memoir, she recalls her years with Elsie de Wolfe and her dealings with Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Eugene O’Neil, and Somerset Maugham, as well as the literary and artistic circle she created outside of Mrs. Astor’s Four Hundred that would eventually blossom into café society.
“One principle in life to which I have been fairly faithful is to always cultivate people who are better and finer and cleverer than myself. It is more morally wholesome to bend one’s knees back and look up, than to drop one’s head forward and look down.”
--Elisabeth Marbury
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