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Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded
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by Amanda MacKenzie Stuart

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"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.

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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
  • Publication date 2007-01-09
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • 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)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • 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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