Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorite" was a fun-loving beauty with brooding eyes named Leocadia Zamora. Author Bowers is the first biographer to discover her portrait and her subsequent history. Like Antoinette Bolviller she had a meditative maturity. After Irving left Madrid she appeared less & less in society, finally founded a convent and entered it as mother superior, requiring that her portrait by Madrazo be painted over with a nun's habit. Years later it was restored...
EDUCATION-private tutors until the age of 15, three years at Mme Souvestre's school near London, three months in a French convent...