'Captivating, intimate, dazzling epic and revelatory' SIMON
SEBAG-MONTEFIORE The story of the family who rose from the
Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wealth and power has
been much mythologized. Yet half the Rothschilds, the women, remain
virtually unknown. From the East End of London to the Eastern
seaboard of the United States, from Spitalfields to Scottish
castles, from Bletchley Park to Buchenwald, and from the Vatican to
Palestine, Natalie Livingstone follows the extraordinary lives of
the English branch of the Rothschild women from the dawn of the
nineteenth century to the early years of the twenty first. As Jews
in a Christian society and women in a deeply patriarchal family,
they were outsiders. Determined to challenge and subvert
expectations, they supported each other, building on the legacies
of their mothers and aunts. They became influential hostesses and
talented diplomats, choreographing electoral campaigns, advising
prime ministers, advocating for social reform and trading on the
stock exchange. Misfits and conformists, conservatives and
idealists, performers and introverts, they mixed with Rossini and
Mendelssohn, Disraeli, Gladstone and Chaim Weizmann,
amphetamine-dealers, temperance campaigners, Queen Victoria, and
Albert Einstein. They broke code, played a pioneering role in the
environmental movement, scandalised the world of women's tennis by
introducing the overarm serve and drag-raced with Miles Davies in
Manhattan. Absorbing and compulsive THE WOMEN OF ROTHSCHILD gives
voice to the complicated, privileged and gifted women whose vision
and tenacity shaped history.
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