"The Well-Behaved Woman,”by Therese Anne Fowler. A riveting novel of Alva Smith Vanderbilt, 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. Ignored by New York’s old-money circles determined to win respect, she designed and built nine mansions, hosted grand balls. Alva also defied convention for women of her time, asserting power within her marriage and becoming a leader in the women’s suffrage movement.
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