A well-behaved woman : a novel of the Vanderbilts /
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: 392 pages ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781250095473
- 1250095476
- 813/.6 23
- PS3606.O857 W45 2018
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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F | Chamberlin Free Public Library | Fiction | F FOW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 10/04/2024 | 34480000563183 |
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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 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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