To join the April 7 discussion, go to and click on the “Join a Meeting” tab at the top of the page, then enter the following meeting ID: 601 567 192.įor more information, email Rory Dicker, director of the Women’s Center. The discussion, originally scheduled at the Central Library in March, has moved online in accordance with the university’s response to the coronavirus outbreak and steps to protect the health and safety of the community. She funded the National Woman’s Party, which fought for women’s suffrage at the federal level. The Smiths don’t have much left but their good name, and reputation doesn't pay the bills. The New York Times and USA Today bestsellerThe riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, written by Therese Anne Fowler, a New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. And what she wants, and desperately needs, is a husband who will bring stability to her financially floundering family. This novel shares the story of Alva Smith, later Alva Vanderbilt and then Alva Belmont. A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts by Therese Anne Fowler Alva Smith is a woman who knows what she wants. The virtual meeting, which takes place from noon to 1 p.m., will focus on a novel by New York Times best-selling author Therese Anne Fowler. ( From the publisher.The Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center, in partnership with the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries, will host an “inclusive book group” via Zoom online conferencing software on Tuesday, April 7, to discuss A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts. Meet Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, living proof that history is made by those who know the rules-and how to break them. With a nod to Jane Austen and Edith Wharton, 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. Ignored by New York’s old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built 9 mansions, hosted grand balls, and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke.īut Alva also defied convention for women of her time, asserting power within her marriage and becoming a leader in the women's suffrage movement. Therese Anne Fowler is the NYT and USA Today bestselling author of It All Comes Down to this, as well as Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald (adapted for television as Z: The Beginning of Everything starring Christina Ricci), A Well-Behaved Woman, and A Good Neighborhood.
The riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald.Īlva 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. A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts
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