A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781432857134)

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.

Author: Therese Anne Fowler
ISBN-10: 1432857134
ISBN-13: 9781432857134
Publisher: Large Print Press
Language: English
Published: 12/11/2019
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.40d
Large Print