Rhodesia

Rhodesian Civil war lasted from 1971-1979
In 1971, the Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe was formed to help achieve black majority rule in Rhodesia


1978, an agreement was reached on a constitution to transfer power to the black majority. The country's name was changed to Zimbabwe Rhodesia, and in the general election (April 24, 1979) Bishop Abel Muzorewa (1925-) became the country's first black prime minister when his party won more than 67 percent of the vote. However, the two powerful black nationalist factions led by Joshua Nkomo (1917-) and Robert Mugabe (1924-) denounced the agreement and the results and continued fighting. In the fall of 1979, Britain called a peace conference in London to which all African leaders were invited. Eventually a new agreement was hammered out that was acceptable to everyone. The UN economic sanctions imposed on Rhodesia since 1966 were lifted in late 1979. In elections in 1980, Mugabe was chosen prime minister, receiving almost 63 percent of the popular vote. Britain handed the reins of government to him; the new republic's name was officially shortened to Zimbabwe

http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/romeo/rhodesia1971.htm


30,000 casualties in the Rhodesian/Zimbabwe civil

warhttp://www.scaruffi.com/politics/massacre.html

Elizabeth

Elizabeth is in love with William Keller and he with her. She has just returned from Paris and has not yet slept in her own bed. But now she must go in side and be Miss Holland, not Lizzy. She has to hurry in quietly in the early morning hours so nobody will see her and report back to her mother because just the last night her mother told her to be careful and she was doing exactly the opposite of that. Will begs her to stay, but she tells him she will be back as soon as she can. It is Sunday and it is a day the Hollands leave open for visiters. In the parlor, Liousa Holland has something to tell her daughters that will forever change their lives. They are poor. When Mr. Holland died he left them with nothing. Elizabeth doesn't have a chance to recover when Teddy Cuttington arrives to call. Diana, sitting in the Persian corner of the room, is acting very strange for a girl who has just lost everything and is sent to her room after almost revealing their families secret to Mr. Cuttington. Teddy stays for the respectable time of one half hour and them tells the ladies good day. Shortly after an unexpected visitor arrives. Henry Schoonmaker. Elizabeth has no idea what he could be doing her, she hasn't seen him since before her coming out. She supposes she should be happy New York's most desired was at her house but she is not. Before she knows it she has asked him to go for a walk around Grimacy park and doesn't realize that she was supposed to have waited to be asked, but it is too late. Elizabeth holds her arm rigid so that Henry is barely touching her. She recounts her trans-atlantic story for him but he doesn't seem to care. "My father has planned a dinner party" (107) Elizabeth comments on how pretty it will be if Isabelle is planning and she is sure that the list if very exclusive. Henry laughs but stays silent, why is he being so silent if he came to visit me! "I'm sure you know what it's for"(107) she told him she didn't have any idea, "Oh well i suppose I should tell you that I would be very honored if you would be my wife.' Henry's lips curled around the word wife." 

Lina

Lina Broud is Elizabeth Holland's ladies maid, but Miss Elizabeth has been in Paris for the summer. Lina, Will and Elizabeth used to play together when they were younger and Lina's mother was the Holland's nannie and had not made differentiations between them.  Over the summer Lina has been spending a lot of time with Will Keller, the Holland's coachmen and they had grown very close. They have known each other since they were children, and Lina has been in love with him ever since then. They had grown so close over the summer, and the night Elizabeth is returning Lina is going to tell him, but he is distancing himself from her and she doesn't know why. He tells her she should be inside helping Misses Elizabeth and it is dangerous to be out in the stables now that she is home. "Not tonight. You can't be here tonight." (pg 64) She didn't understand what was different about tonight, it was the same as any other and she thought that it was part of the fun. The danger. On her way inside the servant's entrance when a figure wrapped in white silk hurried by her. It was Elizabeth Holland.  

Henry

"This is to certify that I, William Sackhouse Schoonmaker, do leave all my worldly possessions,as itemized below, including all holdings relating to business, real estate, and personal property, to..."(pg 44) This was Henry Schoolmakers fathers will. "Awful morbid, Dad, we left the party for this?" (pg 45) Henry Schoonmaker was a known ladies man, and everything in life to him was a party. Henry stared across the desk at his father and his step-mother, who was 25 only five years older than him. "So tell me about you and Miss Hayes" (pg 47) said Henry's father abruptly. Henry thought of Penelope, her gigantic eyes and her always dramatic red dress. She had the ability to frighten people but also seduce them at the same time. He wished he was back at the party pushing her body across the dance floor. "I very much enjoy her company."(pg 48) and his fathers next question caught him off guard. "So... do you want to marry her?"(pg 48) He told his father that he had not yet met a women he would think about so seriously, because he didn't take life seriously. William Schoonmaker told him that was a good thing and that he wanted Henry to find someone that would be a "good wife." His father already had someone in mind for his son. Someone with class and sophistication and good family. His father had suddenly taken interest in his son's social life because he was planning to run for office. The girl he had in mind was Elizabeth Holland. 

Penelope

Penelope was hoping to show off her new lover to Elizabeth Holland, but he had written her a note saying "Not sure if i can make it to your party tonight. My apologies, if this is the case. -HS"(pg 32) Penelope had singled out Elizabeth holland as her principal rival and thus her only possible best friend. After receiving this note she went into a rage that was not entirely fair to her maids helping her to get ready. Isaac Phillips Buck was Penelope's right hand. a better way to describe him would be her partner in crime. Penelope was wearing her signature color, red of course to the grand reveal of her families grand new home. She was certain that the Schoonmakers couldn't not come to Richmond Hayes' ball. He would be arriving shortly, she knew it! She was right and soon after Henry Schoonmaker walked through the intricate archway. She walked to greet him and as she left she called to Buckie, "Thats the man I'm going to marry."

Diana

Diana Holland is Elizabeth's younger sister. She is known to misbehave, so at the Hayes party she is being followed, but she manages to write a note in the ladies' dressing room and slipped it to Webster Youngham's assistant. Her note said "Cloakroom, one o'clock. Bring ciggies." In the cloakroom, she was looking for her French Lieutenant's coat. She had come dressed as the heroine in her favorite novel, Trilby. She appears for the first time as an artist's model dressed in a petticoat and slippers but of course Diana could not get away with that. She was surprised that she got away with the simple cotton bodice and red-and-white striped skirt she had come in. As the clocked clanged one, she felt the chest of a man and a pair of hands on her hips. She tried not to smile to much as she turned around to face James Haverton because this was the most exciting thing that had happened to her all night. "I hope you brought cigarettes." (pg 25) she said. He told her how much trouble he could get into for doing this, mischief shining in his eyes. she liked that. "You're pretty"(pg 26) he told her. she thought about the facial features she shared with her beautiful sister and how different they looked. She had small features and a round mouth like all the Holland women. but unlike her sister she had dark hair, she liked to think that it added a certain mystery. and her eyes, they were described as vivid. And like her sister she had her mothers chin. she hated her chin. "Oh I'm all right." He handed her a cigarette, "You're more than all right" she asked him if he was an architect was he also an artist? he asked why and she said, "Well to kiss of course." 

The Luxe by Anna Godbersen- Elizabeth

It is 1899 in Manhattan, filled with scandal and drama. Everything Diana and Elizabeth do is under the microscope. The book opens at Elizabeth Holland's funeral. All of New York's finest are there. All of her family. Except one. Her sister Diana has not yet arrived so the procession starts and when the church door bands open and Diana runs in with a fading smile there is cause for suspicion. Why would she be smiling at her sisters funeral? The book is told from the perspective of five people: Diana Holland, Elizabeth Holland, Penelope Hayes , and Henry Schoonmaker and Lina Broud. 

Elizabeth has just returned from a summer in Paris and she has barely gotten off the boat when her mother forces her to a costume party at the Hayes' new home on Fifth avenue. At the party Louisa Holland claims that everyone has been asking about her. She says it would be a good thing is one of her daughters dance partners would propose. Elizabeth responses by saying "Well, you are lucky I'm still so young, and we still have years before I even have to begin picking one of them." "Oh no... the one thing we do not have is time." (pg 12) Elizabeth gives her mother a strange look and goes to dance with Percival Coddington. As soon as Mr. Coddington approached her, she realized that he was dressed in a shepherd costume; just like she was. Percival could not dance, he could barely walk without tripping. But being the lady she was she danced with him and tried to make small talk. As she turned to give her mother a reassuring look, she saw her standing with two men. One was her father's accountant and the other was William Schoonmaker. While she danced with Mr. Coddington, Elizabeth was thinking about what seems to be a lover. She wonders what he has been doing while she was in Paris.