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A Well-Behaved Woman
- A Novel of the Vanderbilts
- By: Therese Anne Fowler
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 750
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 657
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 656
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. Alva defied convention for women of her time, asserting power within her marriage and becoming a leader in the women's suffrage movement. In A Well-Behaved Woman, Therese Anne Fowler paints a glittering world of enormous wealth contrasted against desperate poverty, of social ambition and social scorn, of friendship and betrayal, and an unforgettable story of a remarkable woman.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Don’t get me wrong...
- By carmen on 03-09-19
- A Well-Behaved Woman
- A Novel of the Vanderbilts
- By: Therese Anne Fowler
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Alva Should be in More History Books
Reviewed: 04-16-19
This story is one I wish I would have known sooner. Gives incredible insight to a woman so unknown to history (and before this book me!) and the early movements of the suffragette movement.
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