TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fowler,Therese
TI  - A well-behaved woman: a novel of the Vanderbilts 
SN  - 147363251X
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Two Roads, an imprint of John Murray
KW  - Belmont, Alva,
KW  - Vanderbilt family
KW  - Socialites
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 21st century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - United States
KW  - 1865-1918
KW  - Biographical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 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
ER  -