With a wealthy, successful husband, a magnificent Park Avenue apartment, a Benz limousine, three healthy children, two servants, and a chauffeur, Edith was doing pretty well for herself by 1923. Indulged by her adoring husband and overattentive mother, she could devote herself to the two activities she had always been interested in — the cultivation of her appearance and her voice. Excerpt from The Bouviers: Portrait of an American Family | John H. Davis