Ladies And not-So-Gentle Women - Softcover

Lewis, Alfred Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140241736 ISBN 13: 9780140241730

Publisher: Penguin, 1999

Synopsis

Ladies and Not-So-Gentle Women is a group biography of four talented-and wealthy-New York women at the turn of the twentieth century whose lives became intertwined as they pioneered new roles for women. With dash, wit, intelligence, and industry, Elisabeth Marbury, her partner Elsie de Wolfe, Anne Morgan (daughter of J. P. Morgan), and Anne Vanderbilt had the courage to use their privileged status to transform their world. From attending lively society balls and Europe's royal courts to marching in labor-organizing protests and nurturing great talents such as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and Cole Porter, their activities open an illuminating window onto the worlds of art, culture, politics, science, and finance at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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Synopsis:

Four portraits of groundbreaking women--Elisabeth Marbury, Anne Morgan, Elsie de Wolfe, and Anne Vanderbilt--carry the reader from Edith Wharton's New York City to Hemingway's expatriote Paris, revealing women on the front lines of major events from two World Wars and labor disputes to the parlors of wealth and influence on two continents. Reprint.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0140241736
• ISBN 13: 9780140241730
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496