A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts Fowler Therese Anne
A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts Fowler Therese Anne The New York Times and USA Today bestsellerThe riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they…
Specifikacia A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts Fowler Therese Anne
A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts Fowler Therese Anne
The New York Times and USA Today bestsellerThe 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. 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 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.