{"id":4496,"date":"2017-11-17T07:47:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T12:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/?p=4496"},"modified":"2017-11-17T07:47:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T12:47:25","slug":"a-widow-and-her-friends-by-charles-dana-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/2017\/11\/17\/a-widow-and-her-friends-by-charles-dana-gibson\/","title":{"rendered":"A Widow And Her Friends – by Charles Dana Gibson."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Charles Dana Gibson was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1867. With aspirations of a sculptor, he apprenticed with Augustus Saint-Gaudens, but eventually turned to pen and ink for his career. His illustrations\u00a0appeared frequently in magazines such as\u00a0Life<\/i>,\u00a0Tid-Bits,<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Time<\/i>, and Puck<\/i>. He typically portrayed characters from high society families of New York and Boston. His popularity in magazines influenced fashion and social convention at the turn of the century. His most famous illustration was know as the “Gibson Girl”, an athletic and stylish woman who echoed the changing status of women as smart, capable, successful, and independent. In 1901, Gibson published “A Widow and Her Friends” the sixth in a series of publications, each volume comprised of 84 black and white drawings and covering a different facet of high society. This book illustrates a story of a recent widow and her journey from mourning to recovery, all along the way making her own decisions regarding career, friends, suitors, love, and social conduct.\u00a0Gibson repeatedly depicted women as the superior of the sexes, often toying with the clownish men who try to win affection and curb independence.<\/span>
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in mourning <\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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consuming books and educating herself<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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undaunted by the seas, while her male companions struggle <\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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exploring a career in nursing<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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saving the buffoons from the icy waters<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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Description:<\/dt>\n
Gibson, Charles Dana. A widow and her friends. New York : R. H. Russell ; London : J. Lane, 1901.<\/span><\/dd>\n
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http:\/\/nrs.harvard.edu\/urn-3:FHCL:603202<\/a><\/dd>\n
Repository:<\/dt>\n
Widener Library<\/dd>\n
Institution:<\/dt>\n
Harvard University<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

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Charles Dana Gibson was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1867. With aspirations of a sculptor, he apprenticed with Augustus Saint-Gaudens, but eventually turned to pen and ink for his career. His illustrations\u00a0appeared frequently in magazines such as\u00a0Life,\u00a0Tid-Bits,\u00a0and\u00a0Time, and Puck. He typically portrayed characters from high society families of New York and Boston. His popularity in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4496"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4523,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions\/4523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}