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Stuart Amanda Mackenzie
Stuart Amanda Mackenzie - Consuelo And Alva Vanderbilt The Story Of A Daughter And A Mother In The Gilded Age - Paperback
Stuart Amanda Mackenzie - Consuelo And Alva Vanderbilt The Story Of A Daughter And A Mother In The Gilded Age - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: Consuelo And Alva Vanderbilt The Story Of A Daughter And A Mother In The Gilded Age
Author(s): Stuart Amanda Mackenzie
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780060938253
Pages: 656 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/9/2007
Description: 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.
Title: Consuelo And Alva Vanderbilt The Story Of A Daughter And A Mother In The Gilded Age
Author(s): Stuart Amanda Mackenzie
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780060938253
Pages: 656 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/9/2007