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Fowler, Therese,

A well-behaved woman : a novel of the Vanderbilts / - First edition. - 392 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

ISBN: 9781250095473 1250095476

LCCN: 2018019687

Subjects--Personal Names:
Belmont, Alva, 1853-1933 --Fiction.
Vanderbilt family--Fiction.

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Socialites--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Social life and customs--1865-1918--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biographical fiction.
Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3606.O857 / W45 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6