Meet Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, living proof that history is made by those who know the rules―and how to break them. Therese Anne Fowler, the immensely gifted writer who gave us all new insights into Zelda Fitzgerald in her novel, Z, has done it again for Alva Vanderbilt Belmont. A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts. A Well-Behaved Woman is a gem: a fascinating tale of Gilded Age manners and mores, and one remarkable woman’s attempts to transcend them. 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. A Well-Behaved Woman is the riveting audiobook about iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious. Author Therese Fowler picks up the line with the third generation in her novel, A Well-Behaved Woman. The Vanderbilt family is one of the great success stories in American history. Martin's Press Publication date: OctoGenres: Fiction, Historical. 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. A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts by Therese Anne Fowler Published by St. 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. 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.
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