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Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt, the story of a daughter and a mother in the Gilded Age, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart

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Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt, the story of a daughter and a mother in the Gilded Age, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [545]-557) and index

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individual biography

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genealogical tablesportraitsplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

62128037

Responsibility statement

Amanda Mackenzie Stuart

Sub title

the story of a daughter and a mother in the Gilded Age

Summary

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 attain the top of New York society. She was adamant that her daughter should make a grand marriage to the underfunded Duke of Marlborough--it didn't matter that Consuelo loved someone else. 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 an account of how two women struggled to break free from the materialistic world into which they were born, taking up the fight for female equality. Consuelo threw herself into good works, and her social and political campaigns proved an antidote to loneliness. Alva embraced the militant suffragette movement in America, campaigning vehemently for women's rights until she died.--From publisher description

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Consuelo and Alva

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