A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel Of The Vanderbilts by Therese Anne Fowler

Lva 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, 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. This 2019 Two Roads Paperback is in good condition.

ISBN: 9781473632493 SKU: 1580741 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1580741
Location: Fiction