A well-behaved woman : a novel of the Vanderbilts / Therese Anne Fowler.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781432857134
- ISBN: 1432857134
- Physical Description: 677 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
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Subject: | Belmont, Alva, 1853-1933 > Fiction. Vanderbilt family > Fiction. Socialites > Fiction. Families > Fiction. Large type books. United States > Social life and customs > 1865-1918 > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | LP Fowl (Text) | 33294002077600 | Large Print | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Gale / Cengage Learning
The riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, written by Therese Anne Fowler, a New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald.
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 nine 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.
With a nod to Jane Austen and Edith Wharton, in A Well-Behaved Woman Therese Anne Fowler paints a glittering world of enormous wealth contrasted against desperate poverty, of social ambition and social scorn, of friendship and betrayal, and an unforgettable story of a remarkable woman. Meet Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, living proof that history is made by those who know the rules?and how to break them.