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Ursula LeCoeur

Harper’s Bazar Takes Me Back 127 Years

Mary Reporting. My mother once accepted a phone solicitor’s offer to receive 15 magazine subscriptions for three years for only X dollars a month. My father was horrified by the expense, but we soon became a family of magazine readers. Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Esquire, The Saturday Review of Literature (remember that […]

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Grandmere’s Spoonbread

This favorite Southern bread is made from cornmeal, but the beaten egg whites give it the consistency of a soufflé. It’s served with a spoon—thus its name—and eaten with a fork. It’s delicious with eggs and bacon for breakfast. It’s an especially good side dish with sliced ham for lunch or dinner. Serves six. INGREDIENTS […]

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Victorian lady's hat

Why Put a Heroine in a Hat Shop?

Mary reporting. In this century when everyone except the British Royal Family has given up head coverings, it’s hard for us to imagine how important hats were to fashionable ladies in the 1880s. A hat offered the crowning touch to a lady’s ensemble. An expensive, often custom-made accessory, it was a wardrobe essential. A lady […]

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