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Paulina Longworth Sturm (February 14, 1925 – January 27, 1957) was an American socialite. She was the only child of Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884–1980), and a granddaughter of U.S. President Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. (1858–1919). Paulina was born on Valentine's Day, exactly 41 years after Alice's mother Alice Hathaway Lee and Theodore's mother Martha Stewart "Mittie" Bulloch had died. Paulina's mother Alice was seen as a great beauty in her youth, and was a celebrity closely followed by the press, particularly when she was part of a diplomatic tour of Asia led by Secretary of War William Howard Taft and other officials. Her White House wedding in 1906 was considered a huge event at the time. Paulina endured melancholy throughout her life. She had a complex relationship with her famous mother who was overbearing and belittling to her, while at the same time unavailable for emotional and physical comfort. Paulina was widowed at 26 and died of a pill overdose at the age of 31 in 1957. ==Early life== Paulina's legal father was House Speaker Nicholas Longworth (Republican-Ohio) (an influential party leader and 43rd Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1925–1931) who had married Alice Lee Roosevelt almost 20 years earlier. (Longworth was popular on both sides of the aisle during his six years as Speaker, and the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill is named after him). The marriage was shaky, with both partners having affairs, and Paulina's birth (her name was pronounced "Pole-eena")〔(C-SPAN ''Booknotes'' ) May 9, 1999 interview with "Roosevelt Women" author Betty Boyd Caroli in which Caroli discusses Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Joanna Sturm's recollections of her.〕 was the result of Alice's affair with Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho, who was chairman of the (Foreign Relations Committee).〔Love letters between Borah and Alice are included in the Cordery biography.〕 Nicholas Longworth loved Paulina and doted on her, and it was not easy for her when he died when she was six years old. Paulina was often invited to the White House by Eleanor Roosevelt to play with her cousins, Sisty and Buzzie Dall, who were near Paulina's age. Eleanor Roosevelt often looked after Paulina at the White House when Alice was out of town. Eleanor also made sure to include Paulina in dinner party invitations to the White House. Paulina was brought up by a strict nanny who did not show affection. Her mother Alice Lee Roosevelt had a notoriously rocky relationship with her step-mother, Edith Kermit Carow, and once a mother herself, the nurturing instinct did not seem to materialize. Alice was competitive with her daughter and would insist on homely clothes for Paulina, as if she were a sibling rival〔〔Cordery. p. 423〕 – while at the same time desiring for Paulina to become an extroverted socialite like herself.〔 Katharine Graham, who was eight years older than Paulina, recalled her "as a rather sad girl, not terribly prepossessing and sort of pale and not done up."〔Felsenthal. p. 187〕 "Paulina's..... appearance resulted not so much from physical factors – other friends recalled her unusually beautiful green eyes: widely-spaced, slanted, and set in black lashes – as from emotional ones: a crippling lack of self confidence”.〔 And despite Paulina's despondency, other qualities still seemed to get through. She was described as "a really very nice person",〔Felsenthal. p. 236〕 and later when she had a child, as a loving mother.〔Felsenthal. p. 238〕 In this complex relationship with her mother, Paulina developed a stutter, which seemed to get worse around Alice, who viewed the stuttering as irritating. Paulina's true personality sometimes surfaced when the conditions were right and she felt safe to express herself. With extended time away from her mother, Paulina had begun to open up at the Madeira School, which she attended from 1938 to 1942. In one anecdote of her time at Madeira (late the night before graduation in 1942), Paulina – clad in pajamas – demonstrated for the other girls in their dorm hallway her grandfather, Theodore Roosevelt's famous charge up San Juan Hill, to the amusement of everyone except the teacher in charge of the floor. Later while attending Vassar College, Paulina retreated inward again, and her inhibitions returned. One thing that seemed to concern her was circumnavigating the world of boyfriends and marriage; which "were necessary were she to escape her mother". Paulina left Vassar after only a year. "Paulina was miserable living at home with her mother, and her shyness and stuttering returned in full force."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paulina Longworth Sturm」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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