Victorine du Pont : : The Force behind the Family / / Leonard C. Spitale.
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 th...
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| 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
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (228 p.) :; 12 b-w illus., 10 color illus., 3 tables |
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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