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	Consuelo Vanderbilt
		Determined to secure the highest-ranking mate possible for her only daughter, a union that would emphasize the preeminence of the Vanderbilt family in New York society, Alva Vanderbilt engineered a meeting between Consuelo and the land-rich, money-poor 9th duke of Marlborough, chatelain of Blenheim Palace.
		It was only when Alva Vanderbilt claimed that her health was being seriously and irretrievably undermined by Consuelo's stubbornness and appeared to be on death's door did the gullible girl acquiesce.
		Alva made an astonishing recovery from her entirely phantom illness, and when the wedding took place, Consuelo stood at the altar reportedly weeping behind her veil.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/co/Consuelo_Vanderbilt.html (701 words)

	Consuelo Vanderbilt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Consuelo Vanderbilt (March 2, 1877 - December 6, 1964) was a member of the United States Vanderbilt family seen as the penultimate marital prize of the Victorian age and an international emblem for socially advantageous marriages.
		It was only when Alva Vanderbilt claimed that her health was being seriously and irretrievably undermined by Consuelo's stubbornness and appeared to be on death's door did the gullible girl acquiesce.
		It may be noted that her brother, William Kissam Vanderbilt II (1878-1944), had a daughter born in 1903 who was named Consuelo Vanderbilt in her honor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Consuelo_Vanderbilt (748 words)

	Class and Leisure at America's First Resort: Newport, Rhode Island, 1870-1914
		Alva Vanderbilt Belmont (1853-1933) was one of America's leading socialites during the Gilded Age.
		Born Alva Erskine Smith in Mobile, Alabama, Alva infiltrated the ranks of Old New York society through persistent networking and display of the vast wealth of her husband, William K. Vanderbilt.
		Alva married Oliver H. Belmont and moved to Belcourt Castle at the end of Bellevue Avenue.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/Davis/newport/biographies/avanderbilt.html (411 words)

	Alva Erskine Smith: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt Belmont (January 17, 1853 - January 26, 1933) was a multi-millionaire American (A native or inhabitant of the United States) socialite and a major funder of the women's suffrage (additional info and facts about women's suffrage) movement.
		Alva resolved to try to marry a rich man, joining New York's Belle Underground of girls from good Southern families ruined by the Civil War who married New York bankers, brokers and merchants.
		Alva proceeded to splurge after she married Vanderbilt and did not rest until she squandered millions.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alva_erskine_smith.htm (341 words)

	The Gilded Cage - washingtonpost.com
		Alva was a strong-minded woman increasingly frustrated by her role as wife of a rich man with little of meaning to do; her time was consumed with planning and attending parties and balls, ordering clothes and wearing them, building and decorating mansions.
		Alva also sought love the second time around, divorcing William K. Vanderbilt to marry Oliver Belmont, a wealthy "gentleman of leisure." After Belmont's death, she reemerged into public life as a militant feminist -- far more radical than her daughter but with the same arrogance she had exhibited as a mother and socialite.
		Alva certainly deserves to be returned to her place in the history of feminism and the struggle for the vote in the United States, however controversial and uncomfortable her personality made her.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/19/AR2006011902716_pf.html (998 words)

	Vanderbilt family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The family was founded by Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877), the fourth of nine children born to a Staten Island family of modest means.
		Cornelius Vanderbilt left school at the age of 11 and went on to build a shipping and railroad empire that, during the 19th century, made him one of the wealthiest men in the world.
		Josiah Hornblower, a descendant of the Vanderbilts and heir to the Vanderbilt/Whitney empire, is featured in a documentary called Born Rich about the experience of growing up as the heir to one of the world's greatest fortunes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vanderbilt (794 words)

	History - History Of Belcourt Castle - Alva Erskine Smith
		Alva Erskine Smith was born on January 17, 1853 in Mobile, Alabama, the daughter of a cotton planter Murray Forbes Smith.
		Vanderbilt negotiated tirelessly to arrange the best alliance by lavish entertaining, grand balls and parties, tea dances and small private dinner parties ending late in 1895 with the marriage ceremonies and celebrations in New York, Newport and London celebrating the union of Consuelo to the 23-year old Ninth Duke of Marlborough.
		Alva Belmont is buried with Oliver in the Mausoleum at Woodlawn in the Bronx.
	www.belcourtcastle.com /history/alva_smith.html (642 words)

	World War 1 and 2 - Alva Erskine Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt Belmont (January 26, 1933 - January 26, 1933) was a multi-millionaire American socialite and a major funder of the women's suffrage movement.
		Alva's mother was forced to open a boardinghouse on West 23rd Street.
		Alva proceeded to splurge after she married Vanderbilt and did not rest until she squandered millions.
	www.worldwardiary.com /history/Alva_Vanderbilt (382 words)

	All About Romance Novels - The Gilded Age
		Alva Vanderbilt decided to give a big fancy dress ball as a housewarming party for her new mansion.
		Alva had invited all the prominent men and women of the city and her guest of honor was Lady Mandeville.
		Alva had accomplished her objective and gotten the family accepted, and that was enough for her.
	www.likesbooks.com /gildedage.html (1658 words)

	Consuelo Vanderbilt Information
		Consuelo Vanderbilt (March 2, 1877 - December 6, 1964) was a member of the United States Vanderbilt family seen as the ultimate marital prize of the Victorian age and an international emblem for socially advantageous marriages.
		Determined to secure the highest-ranking mate possible for her only daughter, a union that would emphasize the preeminence of the Vanderbilt family in New York society, Alva Vanderbilt engineered a meeting between Consuelo and the land-rich, money-poor Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, chatelain of Blenheim Palace.
		It may be noted that her brother, William Kissam Vanderbilt II (1878-1944), had a daughter born in 1903 who was named Consuelo Vanderbilt in her honor.
	www.bookrags.com /Consuelo_Vanderbilt (740 words)

	WIC - Alva, That Vanderbilt-Belmont Woman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Alva Vanderbilt-Belmont was numbered among the leaders in the women's movement more than a half century before her modern counterparts.
		Alva took up the "banner" and her passion and drive successfully helped change the future of women.
		Though Alva Vanderbilt-Belmont was a woman of enormous wealth, she consciously chose to use her financial resources and personal passion for justice to advance women.
	www.wic.org /misc/alva.htm (335 words)

	New England 19 Newport
		Astor's devotion to her children, Alva planned a gala affair and made sure that young Carrie Astor was deeply involved in the planning.
		Alva forced her daughter to marry the Duke of Marlborough in 1895.
		The owner was Cornelius Vanderbilt II, grandson of the Commodore and brother of William Kissam Vanderbilt, owner of Marble House.
	www.vernonjohns.org /nonracists/nenewprt.html (2442 words)

	Quahog.org: Belcourt Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Alva required a bedroom, study rooms, apartments for her twelve-year-old son, and a vast hall for entertaining.
		Alva's bath was located there, but unlike her husband's it did not contain a shower (his was the first in Newport and sprayed water from the top and sides).
		Alva's rococo salon-boudoir was in a prime position; the room has a balcony with views of Bellevue Avenue, a window overlooking the Norman half-timbered courtyard, and doors leading to the former loggia.
	www.quahog.org /attractions/index.php?id=1031 (2679 words)

	City Journal Summer 1995 \| The Millionaire Capital of America by Maury Klein
		Vanderbilt's exquisite bedroom, where "silver toilet services, embroidered silks, and delicate hangings vie with masterly paintings to refresh the attention," one awed visitor was charmed to find "one worn-looking object, and only one: it is the little Bible." At least Mrs.
		Vanderbilt was able to sleep among the magnificence of her surroundings; Mrs.
		Alva Vanderbilt's 1883 costume ball was rumored to have cost $250,000 for costumes, catering, food, champagne, and decor, which included transforming the second-floor supper room into a tropical forest luxuriating with potted palms and orchids.
	www.city-journal.org /html/5_3_urbanities-the_millionaire.html (3628 words)

	Vanderbilt family
		The prominent United States Vanderbilt family was founded by Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877), the fourth of nine children born to a Staten Island, New York family of modest means.
		Although Cornelius Vanderbilt always occupied a modest home, members of his family would use their wealth to built magnificent Vanderbilt mansions.
		Cornelius Vanderbilt and a number of his offspring are interred in the family mausoleum at the Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp on Staten Island, New York.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/v/va/vanderbilt_family.html (555 words)

	NPR : 'Consuelo and Alva': An Early Story of Celebrity
		There is absolutely no doubt that Alva used the visit by the Duke of Marlborough to her house in Newport in 1895 to shore up her fragile social position, and that she wanted to become the mother of a duchess in order to maintain it during that fraught period of divorce and re-marriage.
		As a result of her unhappy marriage to William K. Vanderbilt, Alva didn't believe this was possible in America, where the wives of rich men simply became appendages with no social or charitable role like that of an English duchess.
		Alva's rather embittered view was that once love faded, as it invariably did, Consuelo should have a role that gave her power, prestige and influence in the community.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5159494&ft=1&f=4732640 (2543 words)

	Handwriting-L - Handwriting Analysis Archive (Alva Vanderbilt Belmont -Biography )
		I did not know that Alva founded the Political Equality Association or that she marched, picketed the White House, pleaded with President Wilson, was jailed, force fed, attacked by police, and jeered in public in 1913.
		Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was one of the wealthiest women in America in the early 1900s.
		Alva married Oliver H.P. Belmont January 1896 and was widowed in 1908.
	www.handwriting.org /archives/98alv_02.html (615 words)

	Alva Belmont Information
		Alva Erskine Belmont (January 17, 1853 - January 26, 1933) was a multi-millionaire American socialite and a major funder of the women's suffrage movement.
		Born Alva Erskine Smith in Mobile, Alabama, the daughter of a cotton planter, the American Civil War ruined her family, who decamped, like many other high-society Southerners, to Paris.
		Alva proceeded to spend millions after she married Vanderbilt, building mansions and throwing grand parties.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Alva_Belmont (469 words)

	BookCloseouts.com - The Bestseller in Bargain Books
		When she arrived, twenty minutes late, anyone who caught a glimpse beneath Consuelo Vanderbilt's veil would have seen that her face was swollen from crying.
		Her father soon started to spend the family fortune, enthusiastically supported by Consuelo's mother, Alva, who was determined to take the family to the top of New York society.
		Alva embraced the militant suffragette movement in America, helping to bring the fight for the vote to its triumphant conclusion and campaigning vehemently for women's rights until she died.
	www.bookcloseouts.com /default.asp?R=9780066214184S (257 words)

	Margaret Hayden Rector -- ROAD & TRAVEL Magazine -- Margaret Hayden Rector
		Alva is Rector's first biography, and she felt such a kinship with the heroine that she wrote it in first person, blending her own words and those of Vanderbilt-Belmont's with a heartfelt realism--a tribute to both women's creativity, dedication and skill.
		Alva, newly married into the family, used her courage and creativity (as well the large bank account) to establish her family at the top of a glittering society where being "in" was everything.
		Rector first penned a screenplay on the Vanderbilts and was so taken with Alva's fierce determination and notable accomplishments that she spent eight more years gathering data on the "socialite extraordinaire" to reveal her life story.
	www.roadandtravel.com /celebrities/pw_margarethaydenrector.html (1225 words)

	Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
		Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
		lt;br /gt;Consuelo Vanderbilt was the most famous of the marriage market heiresses and Alva Vanderbilt was her mother.
		Oddly, Alva especially but also Consuelo, felt a need that their lives be noted and chronicled in the newspapers.
	www.wkonline.com /a/Consuelo_and_Alva_Vanderbilt_The_Story_of_a_Daughter_and_a_Mother_in_the_Gilded_Age_0066214181.htm (1061 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This becomes a fatal flaw when Mackenzie Stuart starts issuing, by her tone and approach, invitations for you to weep at the awful fate of naive 18-year-old Consuelo Vanderbilt, married off in 1895 by her ambitious mother Alva to the cash-strapped Duke of Marlborough in a match that was more commercial transaction than fairy tale.
		Since Consuelo's spirited mother, Alva Vanderbilt, had done the first, it seemed natural that she should want her more placid daughter to go for the second.
		Alva Vanderbilt was an assiduous courter of the papers in her efforts to dazzle them with her money into forgetting the Vanderbilts' somewhat shabby and very recent roots, and so displace the Astors at the pinnacle of New York society.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/reviews/article308720.ece (816 words)

	"the" Mrs. Astor: Alva
		Alva built the exquisite Marble House in Newport to further position herself beyond the aging Mrs.
		Alva was too busy to care about this as she was brow-beating her husband, W.K., about the furnishings at Marble House; she filed for divorce (a rather big scandal them) because of the house matter and W.K. gave her it in the settlement.
		All this and Alva still had the time, the money, and the drive to marry her daughter, the ravishing Consuelo, to the Duke of Marlborough.
	themrsastor.blogspot.com /2006/06/alva.html (874 words)

	City Journal Autumn 1996 \| The Man Who Gilded the Gilded Age by David Garrard Lowe
		Alva witnessed the creation of new boulevards like St.-Germain and Malesherbes, the completion of the Louvre, the construction of vast new government buildings such as the Palais de Justice, the beginnings of the Opera House, and the sprouting up, along the Champs-Élysées, of staggering mansions commissioned by the nouveaux riches.
		And though Alva later claimed that members of the family had been presented at the imperial court, there was nothing imperial about their situation in Gotham: Alva’s mother was forced to open a boardinghouse, on West 23rd Street.
		Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt, in particular, was disconcerted; after all, her husband, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, was Willie K.’s elder brother and thus the titular head of the Vanderbilt family.
	www.city-journal.org /html/6_4_urbanities-the_man_who.html (8508 words)

	Movies.com: Marketplace
		Consuelo Vanderbilt was the most famous of the marriage market heiresses and Alva Vanderbilt was her mother.
		A force of nature like unto a tropical depression, Alva acted as her own press agent--never missing a chance to remind the world that she was the mother of the Duchess of Marlborough.
		Alva was a complex woman; by modern standards, probably one who was disturbed.
	movies.go.com /marketplace/details?asin=0066214181&allreviews=true (1665 words)

	The Biography Channel - Biography Result
		Alva Vanderbilt Belmont used her wealth and social standing to help advance the women’s rights movement of the early 1900s.
		Divorced from her husband in 1895 on grounds of his adultery, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was awarded a generous annual income as well as their Newport “cottage,” Marble House.
		After her husband's death in 1908, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont suddenly put herself and fortune at the service of the struggle for women's suffrage and rights.
	www.biography.com /search/article.do?id=9206429&page=print (322 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Vanderbilt' gets under surface of the Gilded Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But Amanda Mackenzie Stuart's compelling double biography, Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age, reveals the story to be far deeper, darker and more psychologically convoluted.
		Alva, married to a Vanderbilt heir, had observed that a titled Englishwoman wielded far more influence than an American woman married to a magnate.
		The dynamic Alva was a powerhouse in the women's suffrage movement in terms of leadership, money and in speaking out forcefully on women's subjugation.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/reviews/2006-03-08-vanderbilt_x.htm (533 words)

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