The Spencers of Amberson Avenue: A Turn-Of-The-Century Memoir

by Ethel Spencer

Book Overview

This memoir introduces the family of Charles Hart Spencer and his wife Mary Acheson: seven children born between 1884 and 1895. In a large Victorian house in Shadyside, an affluent Pittsburgh neighborhood, the family begins a middle-class way of life at the turn of the century. Mr. Spencer, who worked--not very happily--for Henry Clay Frick, was one of the growing number of middle-management employees in American industrial cities in the 1880s and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822953560
• ISBN13: 9780822953562
• Release Date: June 1983
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.4"