A WELL-BEHAVED WOMAN is 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.

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. Ignored by New York’s old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built nine mansions, hosted grand balls and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke. But Alva also defied convention for women of her time, asserting power within her marriage and becoming a leader in the women's suffrage movement.

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. Meet Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, living proof that history is made by those who know the rules --- and how to break them.

A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts
by Therese Anne Fowler

• Publication Date: October 1, 2019
• Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction
• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• ISBN-10: 1250095484
• ISBN-13: 9781250095480