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A well-behaved woman : a novel of the Vanderbilts

Fowler, Therese (author.).

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ISBN: 1250095476 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9781250095473 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
392 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.

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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.