A Strenuous Life - Ross Garey, Alice
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In 1912 a young, American woman, Alice Ross (1890-1980), began a two-year trip around the world. Her itinerary included Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, China, Burma, Siam, India, Turkey, the Levant, Egypt and finally through Europe on the Orient Express. In the history of the earth, few people can have made such a comprehensive and leisurely journey, and essentially none of those would have been attractive, eligible women. "In Honolulu they liked me because I was game for anything in swimming, which counts more than anything there. In New Zealand I seemed more…mehr

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In 1912 a young, American woman, Alice Ross (1890-1980), began a two-year trip around the world. Her itinerary included Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, China, Burma, Siam, India, Turkey, the Levant, Egypt and finally through Europe on the Orient Express. In the history of the earth, few people can have made such a comprehensive and leisurely journey, and essentially none of those would have been attractive, eligible women. "In Honolulu they liked me because I was game for anything in swimming, which counts more than anything there. In New Zealand I seemed more animated and had more initiative than the girls there. In Australia the reputation of the American girl has opened the way there for any who go, and in the Philippines I was simply "a new girl", and there new or old they are few and far between, and there are so many men that I think they would rush even a broomstick in petticoats. Now dear, I take no credit to myself, for I know I'm only an ordinary being, and any girl would have had the very same experiences I had, for many men proposed and begged me to marry them." So Alice summarizes her romantic adventures. Progressive, intrepid, inclusive, athletic, curious, ambitious. Are these the qualities of an Edwardian woman? We had always known that my grandmother had had extraordinary opportunities to travel widely when young. Decades after her death the letters she had saved from her journeys were put in my hands. Read over her shoulder as this 22 year-old literally travels around the globe. Alice Ross Garey is the daughter of an admiral. As one of very few Western women in "the orient" she has an all-access pass ensuring the hospitality of royalty and potentates in every nation. Yet her voice is that of a down to earth gal. The Queen of Hawaii and Sir Flinders Petrie are among the VIPs she meets. That 5-star hotel you'd like to try? Alice slept there. She traveled by horseback, buggy, ship, sedan chair, camel, rickshaw, elephant, Wright airplane, automobile, and train. She's traveling through Europe only a few months before the outbreak of WWI. It's like these letters are recording the end of a way of life; in a few short months, the world will be engulfed in the worst horrors of modernity and everything will change forever. Alice is getting home just in time This is factual material which reads like fiction. More than 40 photographs.
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Linda Garey studied Latin as an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr College. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Film & Video from California Institute of the Arts. Her award-winning short film, "The Obelisk" was screened in a dozen festivals, foreign and domestic. For a decade she worked in Hollywood as a motion picture editor, and briefly as a casting director. She taught literature in public high school for over 25 years, mostly in Santa Barbara, California. She served as union vice president in the California Teacher's Association. She has received five awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Linda has curated a large, inherited collection of historic photographs, many of which can be viewed here https://www.flickr.com/photos/admiralross/albums Alice Ross Garey (1890-1980) represents the fourth generation of her family to be born in the same house in Annapolis, Maryland. She was baptized in a gown given to the family by President Rutherford B. Hayes. Her father was Rear Admiral Albert Ross, her mother a Southern belle of colonial lineage, Alice Brewer. She raised seven children, moving frequently as her husband pursued a career in the army and as an academic. During World War II, five of her children were in military service, including a daughter in the Air Force. Nearing the end of the war the Gareys settled in Santa Monica, California. She was an accomplished artist working in oils. The Barton Gareys were friends and collaborators with the Frank Gilbreths, the prominent efficiency experts. "Congenial" was the word Lillian Gilbreth (the mother in "Cheaper by the Dozen") used to describe her.