A well-behaved woman : a novel of the Vanderbilts
Fowler, Therese2019
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Alva Smith, her Southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America's great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. Ignored by New York's old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built nine mansions, hosted grand balls, and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke. But Alva also defied convention for women of her time, asserting power within her marriage and becoming a leader in the women's suffrage movement. With a nod to Jane Austen and Edith Wharton, Therese Anne Fowler paints a glittering world of enormous wealth contrasted against desperate poverty, of social ambition and social scorn, of friendship and betrayal, and an unforgettable story of a remarkable woman.
Main title:
A well-behaved woman : a novel of the Vanderbilts / Therese Anne Fowler.
Author:
Fowler, Therese, author
Imprint:
London : Two Roads, 2019.
Collation:
392 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2018.
ISBN:
9781473632493 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6FICTION
Local class:
F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2852786