History
Find out all about Dear Miss. Lane, favoured by Queen Victoria, patron of the first paediatric hospital in the States, and leading figure in federal sponsorship of the arts. Bibliography:https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-ladies/harriet-lane/http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=16https://millercenter.org/president/buchanan/essays/lane-1857-firstladyAmerican National Biography Database by Mary K. Dains Lloyd C Taylor Jr. ‘Harriet Lane- Mirror of an Age,’ Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, April, 1963, Vol. 30, No. 2 (April 1963) pp. 212-225Homer T Rosenberger, Harriet Lane Johnston and the Formation of a National Gallery of Art, Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington DC, 1969/1970, Vol. 60/70, pp. 399-442