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Format:
Book
Title:
A well-behaved woman : a novel of the Vanderbilts
ISBN:
9781250095473

9781250202758
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.
Physical Description:
392 pages ; 25 cm
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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