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Richard R. Peabody
Richard Rogers Peabody (23 January 189226 April 1936) was an American aristocrat and psychotherapist who specialized in alcoholism. Peabody grew up as a member of the upper class in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Groton School, Groton, where his grandfather was headmaster, and later enrolled at Harvard as had many of his family before him. He married Caresse Crosby, Polly Jacob, the daughter of another blue-blooded Boston family, with whom he had two children. He served as a captain during World War I in the American Expeditionary Force. Upon returning from World War I he became an alcoholic. His lost his inheritance because of his drinking and his wife to an affair. After their divorce, he sought help through the Emmanuel Movement and later wrote a book, ''The Common Sense of Drinking'', in which he described a secularity, secularized treatment methodology. He was the first authority to proclaim that there was no cure for alcoholism. His book became a best seller and was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Phelps Jacob
Caresse Crosby (born Mary Phelps Jacob; April 20, 1892 – January 24, 1970) was the first recipient of a patent for the modern bra, an American patron of the arts, publisher, and the "literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Paris." She and her second husband, Harry Crosby, founded the Black Sun Press, which was instrumental in publishing some of the early works of many authors who would later become famous, among them Ernest Hemingway, Archibald MacLeish, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Kay Boyle, Charles Bukowski, Hart Crane, and Robert Duncan. Crosby's parents, William Hearn Jacob and Mary (née Phelps) Jacob, were both descended from American colonial families—her father from the Van Rensselaer family, and her mother from William Phelps. In 1915, Mary (nicknamed Polly) married Richard R. Peabody, another blue-blooded Bostonian whose family had arrived in New Hampshire in 1635. They had two children, but while her husband was away at war, she met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
