Mistress of Herself

246 pp. "This lively biography records the story of one of the least known and most successful of the Anglo-American marriages of the last century. In 1888 Mary Crowninshield Endicott of Salem, Massachusetts, the daughter of Grover Cleveland's Secretary of War, became the wife of the British statesman, Joseph Chamberlain. ...Mrs. Laing has created this record of seventy years of London life from a combination of personal acquaintance, her subject's many letters, and the recollections of surviving members of the stepchildren's families."--jacket