obsessed with Taylor’s song about Watch Hill House and Rebekah Harkness.....yes queen give us a WASP history lesson, be the John Cheever you want you see in the world!!!!!!

Taylor moved into the Rhode Island home once owned by Harkness, an heiress from a prominent St. Louis gilded age family who had...a quite tragic and troubled life

The “Bitch Pack” she refers to here were Harkness’ school friends, Judy and Jane, who were known in the press as the “bitch squad”

Which...given TS’s whole squad history...has layers

Anyways...Harkness had the kind of wild life than only heiresses can have; 4 weddings, being a ballet benefactress (before capriciously withdrawing funds), one son who committed murder, a daughter who died by suicide, a strange connection to Dalí. Real Kennedy vibes.

I just love that TS wrote a song about this and called it “the last great American dynasty”

more tomorrow!

There is an extremely trashy book about all this should you care to lose a few hours to a wild story

you cannot say the woman didn’t know how to wear a coat

ok i still cannot sleep so i am up at 1:30am reading archival material about harkness lol

she gave the joffrey ballet an ultimatum: change the ballet to her own name or lose funding; she pulled the $ and started her own ballet company. ruthless tbh

ok what is an ondes martinot

tfw she married the first husband "because she had nothing else to do"

i'm sorry what?

the house has 8 kitchens???? who needs 8 kitchens? ok officially off to bed

what an utterly bizarre life; that house is definitely haunted. ok goodnight!

woke up still thinking about this how bout you