Bibliograph

A well-behaved woman, a novel of the Vanderbilts, Therese Anne Fowler

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A well-behaved woman, a novel of the Vanderbilts, Therese Anne Fowler

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A well-behaved woman

Oclc number

1016946039

Responsibility statement

Therese Anne Fowler

Sub title

a novel of the Vanderbilts

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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