Sherrie S. McLeroy - Daughter of Fortune: The Bettie Brown Story (Women of the West Series)
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Her name was Rebecca Aston Brown, but the world knew her as Miss Bettie. Artist, world traveler, and for the times most shocking of all, a spinster to the end of her days, Betties life has been the subject of conjecture and rumor.
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McLeRoy, Sherrie S. Daughter of Fortune: The Bettie Brown Story / by Sherrie S. McLeRoy. p. cm. (Women of the West series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55622-529-6 1. Brown, Bettie. 2. SocialitesTexasGalvestonBiography. 3. Galveston (Tex.-.)Biography. I. Title. II. Series: Women of the West series (Plano, Tex.) F394.G2M38 1996 976.4'139 dc20 [B] 96-23324 CIP
Copyright 1997, Sherrie S. McLeRoy
All Rights Reserved
Republic of Texas Press is an imprint of Wordware Publishing, Inc. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from Wordware Publishing, Inc.
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This book is dedicated to the memory of Judy D. Schiebel, first administrator of Ashton Villa House Museum... and to the other "Steel Oleanders" who have helped to build Galveston.
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Contents
Introduction
ix
Chapter One Descended from the Lords of Wales
1
Chapter Two Growing Up in Ashton Villa
17
Chapter Three Around the World...
37
Chapter Four A Lady of Fashion
47
Chapter Five Turmoil in the Family
71
Chapter Six That Terrible September
85
Chapter Seven Riding Around the Pyramids
103
Chapter Eight Troubled Times
115
Chapter Nine Lady of Charity
125
Chapter Ten The Prime of Miss Alice
141
Chapter Eleven The End of an Era
151
Page vi
Chapter Twelve Ashton Villa Reborn
159
Appendix A History of Galveston, Texas
167
Appendix B Genealogy of the Brown Family
173
Bibliography
181
Index
187
Page vii
List of Illustrations
Rebecca Ashton Stoddart Brown (1831-1907)
7
James Moreau Brown (1821-1895)
11
Ashton Villa, circa 1865
18
Bettie Brown, circa 1868
24
Bettie at about age 18, in St. Louis
25
Bettie, circa 1875, in Denver
28
Bettie, 1876, with her Mardi Gras pin
32
Bettie, her brothers Moreau and Charles, in Pompeii, 1882
43
Matilda Ella Brown (1865-1926)
48
Bettie, circa 1880, in St. Louis
51
Bettie in the Adirondacks, circa 1895
57
Brown family gathering in Gold Room, circa 1892
59
Bettie in the newly remodeled Gold Room, circa 1892
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