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A well-behaved woman : a novel of the Vanderbilts / Therese Anne Fowler.

By: Fowler, Therese [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Two Roads, an imprint of John Murray, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: 392 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 147363251X; 9781473632516Subject(s): Belmont, Alva, 1853-1933 -- Fiction | Vanderbilt family -- Fiction | Socialites -- Fiction | Women -- Social life and customs -- 21st century -- Fiction | Women -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction | United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918 -- FictionGenre/Form: Biographical fiction. | Historical fiction. DDC classification: 813.6 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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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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