Victorine du Pont : : The Force behind the Family / / Leonard C. Spitale.

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• VerfasserIn: Spitale, Leonard C.,
• MitwirkendeR: Cole, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Newark : : University of Delaware Press, , [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.) :; 12 b-w illus., 10 color illus., 3 tables

Victorine Elizabeth du Pont, the first child of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont and his wife Sophie, was seven years old when her family emigrated to America, where her father established the humble beginnings of what would become a corporate giant. Through correspondence with friends and relatives from the ages of eight to sixty-eight, Victorine unwittingly chronicled the first sixty years of the du Pont saga in America. As she recovered from personal tragedy, she became first tutor of her siblings and relations. This biography makes the case that Victorine has had the broadest—and most enduring—influence within the entire du Pont family of any family member. The intellectual heir of her venerable grandfather, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, although Victorine grew up in an age where women's opportunities were limited, her pioneering efforts in education, medicine, and religion transformed an entire millworkers’ community.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Genealogies du Pont Family Portraits -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the Reader -- 1 France, 1792–1795 -- 2 America’s Turn -- 3 Wilmington, Delaware -- 4 Emergence -- 5 Post-Rivardi Years -- 6 Ferdinand -- 7 Mourning on the Brandywine -- 8 Departures and Arrivals -- 9 Life and Spirit on the Brandywine -- 10 The Brandywine Manufacturer’s Sunday School -- 11 A New Superintendent -- 12 Second Mother -- 13 A Growing Family, a Thriving Community -- 14 National Recognition -- 15 Legacies and Conflicts -- 16 Loss and Restoration -- 17 A Time to Build -- 18 Bells -- 19 Feeling an Interest -- 20 Nearing Home -- 21 Pathway’s End -- 22 Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author