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A girl from a working class family in upstate New York falls in love with all things French. As a result she changes her name and when she grows up she changes her life to fit the name. here is how a smart, plucky girl made from herself a person (a term I borrow from Anzia Yezierska).. Thérèse Bonney was born Mabel Therese Bonney in Syracuse, N.Y. on July 15, 1894; she died of heart failure at the American Hospital in Paris in 1978. Bonney‘s family had lived in New York State for several generations. Her mother, Addie Robey, was a bookkeeper and her father, Anthony Leroy Bonney, was an electrician. Her sister Louise was five years older, born in 1889. The two sisters shared a vision of the importance of design in modern life: Louise became an industrial designer and Therese became a photographer and an interpreter and curator of modern aesthetics.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 00:29:30 +0000

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