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Title Statement | A well-behaved woman: a novel of the Vanderbilts / Therese Anne Fowler. |
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Author | Fowler, Therese |
Publication | New York: St. Martin's Press,2018. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 392 pages ; |
ISBN | 1250095476 9781250095473 |
Other Number | 3389041 |
Summary | 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 9 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. |
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By Topic | Socialites--Fiction |
By Name | Belmont, Alva,1853-1933 |
Vanderbilt family | |
By Location | United States--Fiction--Social life and customs--1865-1918 |
By Genre | Biographical fiction |