Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age Paperback - 2007
by Amanda MacKenzie Stuart
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AS THE DELAY LENGTHENED and nervousness grew, self-appointed society experts in the crowd had time to debate one important question: had anyone seen the Vanderbilt family, whose apotheosis this was alleged to be?
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When Consuelo Vanderbilt'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--forcing a heartbroken Consuelo into a marriage she did not want with the underfunded Duke of Marlborough. But the story of Consuelo and Alva is more than a tale of enterprising social ambition, Gilded Age glamour, and the emptiness of wealth. It is a fascinating account of two extraordinary women who struggled to break free from the world into which they were born--a world of materialistic concerns and shallow elitism in which females were voiceless and powerless--and of their lifelong dedication to noble and dangerous causes and the battle for women's rights.
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- Title Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
- Author Amanda MacKenzie Stuart
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 656
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 2007-01-09
- ISBN 9780060938253 / 0060938250
- Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 8.08 x 5.3 x 1.13 in (20.52 x 13.46 x 2.87 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects United States, Great Britain
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Library Journal, 12/01/2014, Page 48
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