A well-behaved woman
Subtitle: a novel of the Vanderbilts
By: Therese Anne Fowler
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781250095473
Subjects: Social life and customs; FICTION / Family Life / General; Socialites; Manners and customs; FICTION / Historical / General; Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: Adult Brodart.