Mrs. Astor and The Gilded Age

Georgianna “Anna” Robinson was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Robinson who operated Minneapolis' old Grand Opera Hotel on First Avenue. In about 1893 Anna and her sister, Margaret, left Minneapolis for New York City and their parents later followed them. ... In 1900 he wrote his recollections of the Boer War but later took the book off the market because of his inferences of gross misbehavior on the part of the British military at Sannah's Post. ...