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By mchughck
Posted on 19 December 2013 | 3:57 pm — 

The life of Gertrude Sanford Legendre is more like that of a fictional character in a Hollywood film than reality: socialite, heiress, world traveler, spy, game hunter, and philanthropist. In fact, it has been said that Mrs. Legendre inspired Katharine Hepburn’s character in the 1938 film Holiday. Certainly, she was not the average 20th century American woman…”

Read the full article in the fall 2012 issue of Discovery, the newsletter of the College of Charleston Friends of the Library.

 

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