Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage The Titanic'

352 Pages·2012·7.18 MB·English

by  Brewster Hugh

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This Page: The Titanic’s sinking was a huge news story.

This Page: A photograph of the near-identical sister ship, Olympic, leaving port
on sailing day evokes the Titanic’s departure on April 10, 1912.

Copyright © 2012 by Hugh Brewster

All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Brewster, Hugh.
Gilded lives, fatal voyage: the Titanic’s first-class passengers and their world /
Hugh Brewster.
1. Titanic (Steamship). 2. Titanic (Steamship)—Biography. 3. Upper class—
United States—Biography. 4. Ocean travel—Anecdotes.
5. Shipwreck victims—Biography. 6. Shipwrecks—North Atlantic Ocean.
I. Title. II. Title: The Titanic’s first-class passengers and their world.
G530.T6B73 2011
910.9163#4—dc23 2011037159

eISBN: 978-0-307-98471-5
eISBN: 978-0-307-98471-5

Front jacket illustration: Corbis; photographs, from left: Randy Bryan Bigham
Collection, American Academy of Arts and Letters Collection, Randy Bryan
Bigham Collection, Library of Congress Photographic Archive
Photograph and illustration credits appear on this page.

v3.1
To George Behe,
Randy Bryan Bigham,
and
Don Lynch,
with thanks
“It was a brilliant crowd … a rare gathering of
beautiful women and splendid men.”
—First-cabin passenger LILY MAY FUTRELLE
CONTENTS

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue | A RARE GATHERING

1 | AT THE CHERBOURG QUAY
2 | A NOMADIC HIATUS
3 | THE PALM ROOM
4 | “QUEER LOT OF PEOPLE”
5 | QUEENSTOWN
6 | FELLOW TRAVELERS
7 | PRIVATE LIVES
8 | SHIPBOARD COTERIES
9 | DESIGNING WOMAN
10 | A CALM SUNDAY
11 | THE LAST EVENING
12 | COLLISION AND AFTER
13 | TO THE LIFEBOATS
14 | THE FINAL MINUTES
15 | VOICES IN THE NIGHT
16 | THE SHIP OF SORROW
17 | TWO CONTINENTS STIRRED
Postscript | TITANIC AFTERLIVES
NOTES
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PHOTOGRAPH AND ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
About the Author