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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.

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  • ISBN: 9781250095497
  • ISBN: 1250095492
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 pages)
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Belmont, Alva, 1853-1933 > Fiction.
Vanderbilt family > Fiction.
Belmont, Alva, 1853-1933.
Vanderbilt family.
Social classes.
Rich people.
Social classes > Fiction.
Rich people > Fiction.
Socialites > Fiction.
United States > Social life and customs > 1865-1918 > Fiction.
FICTION > Historical > General.
FICTION > Family Life > General.
Manners and customs.
Socialites.
United States.
Fiction.
Historical Fiction.
Literature.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

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