Clover Adams: A Gilded & Heartbreaking Life

Natalie Dykstra Clover Adams, a fiercely intelligent Boston Brahmin, married at twenty-eight the soon-to-be-eminent American historian Henry Adams. She thrived in her role as an intimate of power brokers in Gilded Age Washington.
Why did Clover, having begun in the spring of 1883 to capture her world vividly through photography, end her life less than three years later by drinking a ch