Book a well behaved woman5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Denied abox at the Academy of Music, Alva founds The Met. She does have a knack for getting all she tries for: the costume ball-no mere amusement-wrests acceptance from doyenne Caroline Astor. Marrying into the newly rich but socially scorned Vanderbilt clan, a union contrived by Alva's bestfriend and now-Duchess of Manchester, saved the Smiths-and elevated the Vanderbilts.įrom outside, Alva seems to have it all and want more. costume ball-a coup for the former Alva Smith, who not long before was destitute, her family's good name useless on its own. In 1883, the New York Times prints a lengthy rave of Alva Vanderbilt's Fifth Ave. A novel of a family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, ![]()
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