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Author Hitz, Mary Buford, 1941-

Title Never ask permission : Elisabeth Scott Bocock of Richmond : a memoir / by Mary Buford Hitz.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2000.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 233 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Includes index.
Summary Hitz writes a memoir of her mother, a woman who used her family's wealth and connections to become the driving force behind any number of preservation and conservation projects in Richmond.
Contents 1. 909: Ground Zero 9 -- 2. Father 31 -- 3. A Passion for Preservation 55 -- 4. Heaven Has Nothing on Royal Orchard 85 -- 5. Theirs Not to Reason Why 109 -- 6. When the Wheels Came Off 131 -- 7. A Flash of Green 155 -- 8. (Wild) Goose Chase 171 -- 9. Grandmother the Undergraduate 191 -- 10. Mother and I 205 -- 11. One of This World's Originals 217.
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Subject Bocock, Elisabeth Scott, 1901-1985.
Bocock, Elisabeth Scott, 1901-1985.
Bocock, Elisabeth Scott, 1901-1985.
Richmond (Va.) -- Biography.
Richmond (Va.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Historic preservation -- Virginia -- Richmond.
Historic preservation.
Virginia -- Richmond.
Women -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Biography.
Women.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Biography.
Elite (Social sciences)
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Hitz, Mary Buford, 1941- Never ask permission. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2000 0813919932 (DLC) 00025951 (OCoLC)43656963
ISBN 9780813933474 (electronic book)
0813933471 (electronic book)
0813919932
9780813919935
9780813933375
0813933374