A well-behaved woman : a novel of the Vanderbilts / Therese Anne Fowler.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: 392 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781250095473
- 1250095476
- 9781250202758 dqpaperback
- 1250202752 dqpaperback
- Belmont, Alva, 1853-1933 -- Fiction
- Vanderbilt family -- Fiction
- Socialites -- Fiction
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918 -- Fiction
- Vanderbilt family -- Fiction
- FICTION -- Historical -- General
- FICTION -- Family Life -- General
- Belmont, Alva, 1853-1933
- Vanderbilt family
- Manners and customs
- Socialites
- United States
- 1865-1918
- 813/.6 23
- PS3606.O857 W45 2018
- FIC045000 | FIC014000
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Harrison Memorial Library FICTION | Adult Fiction | FOWLER T (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31624004049094 |
Includes bibliographical references.
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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