Annette Blaugrund -- Dispensing Beauty in New York & Beyond -- Gables

Start: Dec 14 2011 8:00 pm

Harriet Hubbard Ayer established Récamier Preparations, Inc. in 1883, the earliest cosmetic company owned and operated by a woman. First with her creams and balms and then with her words about women’s health and beauty, she influenced several generations of women to look and feel good about themselves. After being committed to an insane asylum, this former Chicago socialite reinvented herself as the highest paid newspaperwoman in the United States, editing the women’s pages of Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World. In Dispensing Beauty in New York & Beyond (History Press, $21.99), Annette Blaugrund presents Harriet’s story as never before heard.