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Therese Anne Fowler’s A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts

Posted on November 15, 2018 10:43 am Published by hradmin Leave your thoughts

by Therese Anne Fowler

Alva Smith, 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 and determined to win … Read the article

The Real Women Who Inspired Downton Abbey

Posted on August 6, 2018 10:41 am Published by hradmin Leave your thoughts

by Anne de Courcy

Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege, and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing … Read the article