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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100066214181
ISBN-139780066214184
eBay Product ID (ePID)47674765
Product Key Features
Book TitleConsuelo and Alva Vanderbilt : the Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
Number of Pages608 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2006
TopicWomen, Rich & Famous, Modern / 20th Century, General, Historical
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorAmanda Mackenzie Stuart
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight33.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-054805
ReviewsMackenzie Stuart has skillfully integrated a great deal of research... and she gives a rich sense of both women., Fascinating... A thoughtful portrait of two strong, well-educated women who were more than the measure of their extreme wealth., A riveting story... Alva and Consuelo emerge as unique and fascinating characters... A very entertaining read., Impeccably researched . . . Mackenzie Stuart's history marshals an impressive trove of primary documents., Book lovers, Anglophiles and social historians alike will find much to please them in this fine, well-researched biography., Compellingly readable. [Mackenzie Stuart] writes... with the eye of an accomplished historian and with profound sympathy for the central figures., Riveting . . . [An] excellent biography . . . Mackenzie Stuart narrates with an elegance equal to her subject's.
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal973.8092/2 B
SynopsisOn a November day in 1895, crowds of curious sightseers gathered outside St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue in New York, intent on spotting a small dapper bridegroom whom they knew to be a great English aristocrat awaiting his bride-to-be. When she arrived, twenty minutes late, anyone who caught a glimpse beneath Consuelo Vanderbilt's veil would have seen that her face was swollen from crying. When Consuelo's grandfather died, he was the richest man in America. Her father soon started to spend the family fortune, enthusiastically supported by Consuelo's mother, Alva, who was determined to take the family to the top of New York society. She was adamant that her daughter should make a grand marriage, and the underfunded Duke of Marlborough was just the thing. It didn't matter that Consuelo loved someone else; as Alva once told her, "I don't ask you to think, I do the thinking, you do as you're told." However, the story of Consuelo and Alva is not simply one of the emptiness of wealth, of the glamour of the Gilded Age, and of enterprising social ambition. This is a fascinating account of how two women struggled to break free from the deeply materialistic world into which they were born, taking up the fight for female equality. Consuelo threw herself into good works; Winston Churchill encouraged her to make her first public speech, and her social and political campaigns proved an antidote to loneliness. Alva embraced the militant suffragette movement in America, helping to bring the fight for the vote to its triumphant conclusion and campaigning vehemently for women's rights until she died. In this brilliant and engrossing book, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart suggests that behind the most famous transatlantic marriage of all lies an extraordinary tale of the quest for female power., The colorful story of Alva and Consuelo Vanderbilt and their adventures on both sides of the Atlantic--in an age of callousness and ambition, material extravagance and excess--is told through their mother-daughter relationship and their mutual quest for self-determination in the glittering empty world of the Gilded Age., "A dual life story that reads as pleasurably as the best fiction but with all the intelligence of a first-rate biography. . . . completely absorbing."--Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire The granddaughter of the richest man in America, Consuelo Vanderbilt was the prize catch of New York Society. But her socially ambitious mother, Alva, was adamant that her daughter should make a grand marriage, and the underfunded Duke of Marlborough was just the thing--even though Consuelo loved someone else. The story of these two women is not simply one of empty wealth, Gilded Age glamour, and of enterprising social ambition. Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt is also a fascinating account of how two women struggled to break free from the deeply materialistic, stifling world into which they were born, taking up the fight for female equality. In this brilliant and engrossing book, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart suggests that behind the most famous transatlantic marriage lies an extraordinary tale of the quest for female power.
LC Classification NumberCT3150.B34S83 2006
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- 24. Aug. 2021
Awesome book!
I have started reading this book about the Vanderbilts. I have been visiting the Newport mansions since I was 11. I’m now 58. I have always been fascinated about the family and this book talks about the family and their lives! A must read book!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
