An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew by Annejet van der ZijlMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
4.0/5.0 - I am surprised by the amount of non-fiction I have been reading this year, including this biography/memoir of Allene Tew. I was intrigued from the start to learn that Allene lived in Jamestown, NY during a time when my family lived in the area (1850s). She was a lovely young woman and even though she lacked social status, she captured the heart of a Pittsburgh heir, who would marry her and father her three children, all who died young (29, 2, and 21). She would go on to marry four more men, including Anson Burchard, the love of her life, and two European royalty - a prince and a count, and lived a very international life that began just after the American Civil War and ended in the 1950s. She saw multiple economic disasters, but always managed to come out on top, through careful money management, despite her generosity in helping others.
AtY #12: A book eligible for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
Book 61 of 2021
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