A well-behaved woman : a novel of the Vanderbilts
(2018)
By:
Fowler, Therese
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/FOWLER,T
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : St. Martin's Press, [2018]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
392 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781250095473, 1250095476, 9781250095473, 1250095476
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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