Consuelo & Alva : love and power in the gilded age / Amanda Mackenzie Stuart.
Publication details: London : HarperCollins, 2005.Description: 579 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0007216874 (pbk.)
- 9780007216871
- Consuelo and Alva : love and power in the gilded age
- 305.523/4 22
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library | 305.5234 STU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library | 66820 |
Includes index.
On cover: "A dual life story that reads as pleasurably as the best fiction but with all the intelligence of a first-rate biography......Amanda Forman".
Bibliography, p. [545]-557.
List of illustrations - Preface - Prologue . Part one: the family of the bride - birth of an heiress - sunlight by proxy - the wedding. Part two: becoming a duchess - success - difficulties. Part three: philanthropy, politics and power - old tricks - love, philanthropy and suffrage. Part four: a story re-told - French lives - harvest on home ground. - Afterword - Acknowledgements - Notes - Bibliography - Index.
This is a fascinating study of the way in which both Alva and Consuelo struggled to break free of the deeply materialistic world into which they were born and took up the fight for female equality. Both women were born to riches and social ambition.
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