A fabulously wealthy New York beauty marries a cold-hearted British
aristocrat at the behest of her Machiavellian mother - then leaves
him to become a prominent Suffragette. Consuelo Vanderbilt was one
of the greatest heiresses of the late 19th-century, a glittering
prize for suitors on both sides of the Atlantic. When she married,
a crowd of over 2,000 onlookers gathered, and newspapers frenziedly
reported every detail of the event, right down to the bridal
underwear. Even by the standards of the day the glamorous,
eighteen-year-old had made an outstanding match: she had ensnared
the twenty-four-year-old Duke of Marlborough, the most eligible
peer in Great Britain. Yet the bride's swollen face, barely hidden
under the veil, presaged the unhappiness that lay in the couple's
painful twelve-year future. It was not Consuelo, but her
domineering mother who had forced the marriage through. This
captivating biography tells of the lives of mother and daughter:
the story of the fairytale wedding and its nightmarish aftermath,
and an account of how both women went on to dedicate their lives to
the dramatic fight for women's rights, in the light of their own
suffering.
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