Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

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The Janeways mingled with United States Supreme Court justices and many other luminaries of the day (Elizabeth Janeway recommended Erica Jong's Fear of Flying to Justice William O. Elizabeth described Eliot as "the most intelligent man I had ever met.