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

Fowler, Therese, (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250095473
  • ISBN: 1250095476
  • Physical Description: 392 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: [First edition]
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.

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General Note:
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Subject:
Belmont, Alva, 1853-1933 > Fiction.
Vanderbilt family > Fiction.
Socialites > Fiction.
United States > Social life and customs > 1865-1918 > Fiction.
Genre:
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
Fiction.

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  • 62 of 69 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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